It's been a long overdue domestic day today. I've cleaned (a few weeks overdue) moved some pictures around and painted the wall underneath when it became clear there were unsightly black marks around where the pictures had hung (a couple of years overdue), have started some red current jelly (last years red currents found at the back of the freezer) and put a couple of pheasants to slow cook (hopefully last years, possibly the season before that, if they're really dry I'll try them in soup). I chipped the lime scale off my bathroom taps (needed doing since I moved in almost 9 years ago, cillit bang stinks but at least it works on lime scale if not the black bits on the grouting I actually bought it for) polished some silver, watered the plants and have generally been very virtuous.
I also took my new laptop back to the shop I got it from as it has an irritating habit of throwing 5555555555's in to text which is bad enough, but was making it impossible to sign into as I couldn't tell which were letters and which were 5's. This is annoying for a couple of reasons - primarily that due to being at work during shop opening times I missed getting the dratted machine back in time to get a simple exchange by 2 days it's now gone for a likely 2 weeks so I'm back on my old laptop which is prone to overheat or just stop working (it's 6 years old and had deserved it's retirement) . With this in mind I'm not sure how feasible blogging will be over the next few weeks so don't be surprised if I disappear for a bit. At least whilst out I picked up some cushions so the fabric I bought in July might soon get turned into the cushion covers planned for it.
Altogether a fairly productive day off - and much of it displacement activity because I should have been finishing a book that I just can't get into or see the point of. At this rate I might even do some ironing ...
I am VERY impressed. Perhaps when you've finished your cushion covers you could come over to my house and make mine. :)
ReplyDeleteBut also, I want to know what the book is.
The book was Mr Tibbit's Catholic School, not a bad book, and not badly written but it presupposed an interest in Catholic boys prep schools in London which it turns out I don't have. It was a book group book which is why I felt I had to read at least most of it and I won't write about it hear because I don't think anybody who wasn't interested in it would pick it up. For those would be interested there are lots of amusing stories about a vanished way of educating (I didn't get to the contemporary section). I like making cushion covers a lot as they're about the only sort of sewing that doesn't overstretch my very limited ability ;)
DeleteOh and my word verification for the last comment was 180 uglyfun. Make of that what you will...
ReplyDeleteI have a grand plan to turn some vintage (but unused) tea towels into cushions - they are all of either naff local tourist attractions or ultra-brightly unrealistic fruit and veges. I need to learn to sew a really straight line first. I mostly use the machine for stuff where accuracy doesn't matter, like paper garlands. I'm feeling a bit domestically shamed reading above! ;-)
ReplyDeleteRefer to how long it's taken me to do some of those jobs (appalled I admitted to some of it). I think tea towel cushions would look amazing. My lines aren't always as straight as they could be but are getting better, the nice thing about the tweed I was using was that it had lines running through it which made it a bit easier to follow a nice straight line!
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