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curiouswombat ([personal profile] curiouswombat) wrote2023-02-15 09:31 am
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I aten't dead.

For anyone who needed their day brightening a little -

Yesterday morning the first two flowers on Barbie the camellia opened;

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In one of the pots there are anemones in flower;

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And this is my favourite snowdrop picture from this year;

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And in the kitchen the gerbera that is now 4 years old, has had a new lease of life since I re-potted it;

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In other news I have been involved in a lot of discussions and meetings regarding the Churches' Bookshop. Like so many small shops, especially small bookshops, and also a good few bigger ones, the shop is struggling. There is reduced footfall throughout town, and we are less obvious than we were when we were hosted by the town centre methodist church (they asked us to leave as there was building work due involving demolishing our old corner shop - sadly it is still not done over 2 years later). People who come in are more inclined to buy cards than books, and we have had a poorer Christmas than expected. The result is that we need to consider can we continue, or should we look to closing. Currently we think we can keep going to Easter, anyway.

A local, family run, electrical goods shop which has been in business for over 40 years has announced that it is closing down. We have bought a lot of our white goods there over the years and so we went along and made our last purchases yesterday in their closing down sale - a new fridge-freezer for the garage, and a new cordless vacuum. The current fridge-freezer is only quite small, it was D-d's when she lived alone, and the chance of a more powerful vacuum than the current one seemed a good idea too.

The fridge-freezer is getting delivered tomorrow, and so we have been eating out of the current freezers so we can, in the short term, fit everything into the fitted, under-bench freezer. So yesterday we had macaroni cheese out of the freezer, and for dinner tonight we had a plate of pigs in blankets which I had forgotten over Christmas and New Year, with a pile of frozen peas to use up the rest of the packet!

I have been destressing by knitting the rest of the squares for a blanket I started last summer - and beginning to make some knitted Manx bunting for Tynwald Day and the Coronation. Here is the first piece of bunting on top of the last of the 48 squares;

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The three legs symbol is made from what we call 'French knitting' - made with my new toy - one of these, although mine cost less than that. It is rather fun to use :)

And my tasks for the rest of the week include making a celebratory cake for my sister and her husband's 40th wedding anniversary party on Saturday.

So that is the current state of the wombat.

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