It has been an odd sort of week. We started of quite busy when our son Jonathan came round to trim our hedges. He brought his two little girls with him. Aisling brought a big bucket of 'bouncy dough' to play with, and I spent most of the morning making animals with her. She was nice enough to recognise all my amateurish shapes! Then our older son Michael turned up with his stepson who at just 16 is taller than anyone else in the family, so our little sitting room was very full.
On Sunday I went to church as usual and we had a lovely service for Trinity Sunday led by Sarah, Bishop of Shrewsbury, who was a lovely friendly lady and we had a good chat over a cup of tea after the service.
On Tuesday night I babysat with Aisling and Niamh for the first time so that Jonathan could take his wife out to dinner for her birthday. They don't often go out in the evening as Jonathan leaves for work at 5.30 most mornings so he goes to bed early. Aisling was as good as gold and after reading her school book to me she went off to bed. The baby was a bit unsettled when she realised her mum wasn't there, but she settled in the end.
The next two days were taken up with hospital appointments, one for me and one for Chris. Although both were relatively straight forward, the round trip is almost a day out so I didn't get much else done.
Yesterday I went round the shops with a tape measure trying to find boxes the right size to fit in my freezer. I managed to find three. They are all different but that doesn't really matter. My freezer has four open shelves and two small drawers at the bottom. The drawers hold vegetables and chips, but everything else gets pushed in wherever it fits, and because the shelves are too deep for me to reach to the back, some things get lost and forgotten. So This morning I took everything out, sorted it into 'raw meat', 'prepared meat', 'pies, and precooked meals', and 'sundries', such as bakery goods, ice-cream, desserts, and anything else that didn't go anywhere else. I think it will be much more efficient to use now.
While at Ben's I finished the mandala I was crocheting. It is called Autumn leaves. The pattern showed it made in a variegated green yarn but it spoke more of Spring to me than Autumn, so I chose yarn that changed from bright yellow, through orange to purple. Here it is pinned out on my blocking pads. They aren't quite big enough but I needed to get an idea of what size hoop tyo order. It is now on its way to me and I will have the difficult job of crocheting it to the hoop. It will look better when it is properly stretched with a plain wall behind it so I will show it again when it is done.
Now I am enbarking on a new piece of cross stitch and other embroidery. It is a kit I bought and the fabric is pale green, even weave linen. I haven't used anything other than Aida cloth for a long time and it will be quite tiring for my eyes, but I am not in a rush to do it, so little by little. And I find the light during the summer is much better for sewing so I shall have a go. The kit came with some very pretty threads and three tiny vials of very tiny seed beads. (They are going to be fun to sew in to it!). There is also a ten page booklet of the pattern. So wish me luck and don't expect to see much progress for quite a while.
Last week I said I had managed to solve the rubik's cube in five minutes. I haven't tried again since then but today I did it in just over 4 minutes! I have an app on my tablet to use with it. The red below is a screen shot. The row of tiny letters under the time is a set of moves to follow to get an authentic random shuffle. (They change every attempt). So you shuffle it, tap the screen to start solving it and tap it again when you have done it. My eldest son Jim had the first cube I had seen back when he was just into secondary school, and he held the school record for the fastest to solve it, but I never mastered it back then. Perhaps I have too much time on my hands now!
And finally, I have been playing with the camera on my new phone and one afternoon I took this shot of a spider's web, gently swaying in the breeze on the outside of my craft room window. I used full zoom and I love how it turned out, it is like a set of fairy lights.
And that is another week flown by.
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