Miscellany.

[curiouswombat]

I've not been posting, or even commenting, much. Apart from being distracted by the Paralympics, my left arm has been sore; and I find the angle I need to hold it on to type makes it worse. But I really can't stop myself - apart from being here, I have a couple of short stories demanding to be written and a long one that keeps poking me, too.

The children were back in church today and we spent our time making salt-dough harvest wreaths, and salt-dough fish to celebrate the harvest of the sea. I was feeling a bit jaded before I went to church but it was so good to see them all, and have fun with them, that I felt much more smiley when I came home.

I had an urge to make scones, and so S2C and I sat to a pot of tea and some warm cherry and ginger scones about 3.45 for afternoon tea - very civilised.

And right now I have 2 ovens full of salt-dough drying out at low temperature to be painted next Sunday. It's keeping the house warm on what is a cool autumn day.

There are three or four pics under the cut - not related to the above at all!



When I was at Return of the Ring a couple of weeks ago I bought some jewellery - some steam-punk stuff for myself just because, and some for my sister as a birthday gift - so mine;



All handmade from real bits of watch.

Now the pieces for my sister's birthday. These are blue goldstone - and inzilbeth_liz can you please tell Heather (who made them) that my sister was absolutely thrilled with them.



Now a picture of the WW2 dispatch rider's bike that my cousin has restored in memory of his father, who rode one just like it. It is parked in our back garden - which was not looking very tidy, I fear. The wee mat was there in case the bike was incontinent of oil...



Finally something that just makes me smile every time I go past it. This is a sea-side garden on the south coast of the island -



What fun to have small garden sheds painted as beach huts, rather than one, more boring, one!



Now a question for Tolkienista friends - I read a story not that long ago and can't remember where.

Does this sound familiar to anyone; Éomer/Lothiriel in which Lothiriel is actually Imrahil's illegitimate daughter, of whom he knows nothing, as she has been brought up by her healer mother in Rohan. She follows the Rohirrim to war in her role as a healer. When he realises who she is, Imrahil is more than happy to acknowledge her, but at least one of his sons is certainly not, and is convinced that she is a fraud.

I really ought to be more organised about bookmarking stories!

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Isn't that garden wonderful? The bike gets him into a lot of interesting conversations - one of our neighbours spent ages chatting as his father, too, had been a dispatch rider.

Sadly that isn't quite the right story - but it was really good of Oshun to help.