When I included the picture of the knitted flowers in my last post I said I would explain more.
The original idea was to make a giant Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon...


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What have I been up to? Well, there were teas at church, my cousin visiting for a week, including a nice meal out once some of the other bikers were on their way home so things were quiet, NYK2 and I spent an afternoon experimenting with making filled croissants, I have been knitting pink flowers, organising a picnic for a group of the Messy ( Read more... )

Sorry - I am a bit missing in action at the moment; the weather has been horrible and we have been sitting around waiting for things to happen involving motorbikes for a lot of time - still serving food and drink to spectators who are also waiting for things to happen and are eating because they are bored ( Read more... )

Almost finished! This is the next to last chapter of the tale ☺️ ☺️ ☺️

Going Home (to a place we’ve never been before.)
Chapter Twenty One; Finding the Balance.
Words; 2575

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The title of the post is the description of the weather at 6pm today from one of our local radio stations - I love it :)

Sadly it quickly became more than a thin veneer.

What have I been up to in the past week or so? Nothing very exciting; a couple of quiet days in the bookshop, a shopping trip to Tynwald Mills for S2C, NYK2 and I, mainly to ( Read more... )

Three chapters in 10 days or so - I am definitely on a roll. Thanks to wiseheart for picowrimo last month, which spurred me on to get past a bit of a writing bump ( Read more... )

A few garden pictures - and now into August there is still colour.

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OK... this is almost unheard of for me - but here is the next chapter of Going Home. This part of the story has existed in my mind as part of the story line from almost the very beginning - and when I sat down on Saturday afternoon the words just flowed - I ended up not going to bed until 1.00am ( Read more... )

So - I made a cake. Ostensibly to welcome all of my daughter's family home tomorrow from their holiday - but, in reality, it is mainly for my son-in-law...


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Two posts in a day! But this is the next chapter of my ongoing story, which I know is mostly read in other places these days. Posted here for completeness really.

Going Home (to a place we've never been before).
Chapter Eighteen.
Lord Aulë's Forge
3655 words.

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