Dear sweet friends. I am a little speechless at the kind and heartfelt response to my post on Friday. I wrote it not really knowing if it was a good idea, but feeling so strongly that I just need people to know. I still can’t really put words to much of what I’m feeling through…
I’ve started a new sewing project. I’m using up the material I used for my niece’s play quilt earlier this year, by making a new quilt. My mother-in-law sews a lot, and I’ve watched her so often sitting with the small scraps of fabric in her lap, sewing the tiny stitches. Last time, she showed…
Today my mum called me to let me know a wonderful old man had died. He was one of the very best men I have known. In my memory he has always been old, the retired vicar slowly climbing the narrow wooden stairs into the pulpit (which no other preacher did) to speak out the…
A few more snapshots of our short stay in Scotland this week at my Grandpa’s house…
Driving up my Grandpa’s driveway and feeling like coming home. Being served aperitifs by my Grandpa before dinner each night. Lying in in the morning and going down for breakfast in my pyjamas (not allowed when my Granny was around!) Remembering without having to think, where the stairs are most creaky. Watching the weather forecast…
I am an ideas person, I have new thoughts, new projects, new recipes, new ideas forming in my head every few minutes. I love starting new things. I love the excitement of conceiving of a new idea, feeling it grow and take form in my mind, nervously proposing it to others and seeing them catch…