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jwil

Wow, that blanket is amazing!

foxgloves

That's such a vivid pattern, @CRANKY40, & looks beautifully crocheted. Thanks for sharing. I agree that having a large project to knit or crochet in the colder months is an extra layer of insulation.
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CRANKY40

Thank you all. It's not clever at all @WinterWarrior, it's a basic stitch and if you can count in threes you can make it. The colours - I pick three from our local wool shop's basic line. I've done a couple of blue like this and the one that the HT has is in shades of grey to go with his room. You wouldn't believe the difference in weight and warmth it adds when it's on top of the bed covers as well as being handy for just wrapping around if someone is sitting still. 

This morning's job is to write some letters for best friend as the people who bought his last house didn't give their details to the energy company so even though he provided an end reading he's being charged as if he was living there, sigh. After that I'll make three packed lunches, leave one in the fridge for the HT and take the other two with me to go gardening at best friend's house. It's like the secret garden....we're uncovering paths as we go and last week we uncovered some pipes at the very back where there shouldn't actually be any pipes. We're thinking that they may be old down pipes from previous modernisation as the land was arable before houses were built. We had the old tithe maps from 1842 up on the computer earlier in the week so we could see the field boundaries and we managed to match the old sandstone gatepost also at the end of the garden with one of the boundaries. 

It's hard work and hot in this weather bringing a garden back to life, but I keep saying the same as I used to say when the late MrC and I were fed up of renovating the big house (usually after a particularly messy job) - "It'll be lovely once it's finished" 🤣🤣🤣 Well it makes us laugh anyway....

Take care all of you 😊

Blackcats

Beautiful blanket and such a lovely colour combination. 

Sun_Addict

I love that blanket 😍 The garden discoveries sound fascinating. Our house and garden has been an ongoing project for the past 30 years 😆

CRANKY40

Thanks @Sun_Addict. I'll put you on the list for a blanket 😁 They make great winter projects and I can make them while chatting so they're great for when I have my Looked After Person too. 

The garden is amazing. While we were having one of our many coffee breaks on Thursday, a fox ambled through the middle of the garden and hopped over the highish fence at the back. Luckily I managed to grab my phone and get a photo....

sashybo

Lovely blanket, I want to learn to crochet, I don't have the patience for knitting but hoping crochet might be easier. 😂 I'll get round to it one day.

Wow look at the fox, it looks so relaxed. 😎 

Humdinger1

@CRANKY40 have read through your diary and love the way you approach life so subscribed.   My mother and stepfather had visiting foxes in their old garden.  Their (the foxes, that is) favourite dinner was lightly grilled liver but a close second was jam sandwiches; preferably strawberry....onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx 

CRANKY40

Thank you @sashybo. Crochet is easy enough if you stick to the basic stitches for the first few projects. 

Thank you @Humdinger1. The fox had already gone by the time I thought of making it a sandwich but if he's going to be a regular I'll probably leave him something. On Thursday we had 3 magpies, 1 crow, 4 squirrels, 1 wood pigeon, 2 Mrs Blackbirds and 1 starling all stop by for snacks. The squirrels had chewed through the wire to the pond pump (luckily only a solar pump or we would have had pop up toasted squirrel as an extra) so we've had to repair that but they are so entertaining. We caught them in next doors orchard last week, sitting eating an apple each as if they were eating in a cafe and were paying for their food. 

WinterWarrior

Oh, oh, oh!! I am so jealous of that fox! It looks in good condition too ♥️ We don’t seem to have any here at all. I remember being parked up at 7am in Leeds and one just passing through the car park. He was a big old scruffy thin boy, but he didn’t take any prisoners, he kept eye contact all the way past and I dutifully stayed still in the car while he went on his way 😁
no squirrels here either, which is odd as there’s loads of trees. I feel cheated…can I swap you for a deer?