The birds are definitely getting harder as we go along. Getting all the sections to line up properly on the swallow was hard work (and, although you can’t really tell in the finished square, I didn’t entirely succeed), especially that final seam. And this is only the half-way point! I suspect the final few birds…
ear Diary being down yesterday has thrown me off completely, because I (re-)posted yesterday’s entry this morning, which means I’ve been thinking all day that I’d already written a post today, so I haven’t been keeping an eye out for something to write about. So now that I’ve finally remembered that this morning’s post doesn’t…
DD was down most of yesterday, so I had to post yesterday’s entry on Livejournal instead. But look, proof I really didn’t break my daily posting streak: Anyway, here’s a copy and paste of what I would have written yesterday if the site had let me in: A few interesting recent catches: My Favourite Wife…
Seven jars of apricots bottled this morning. That hadn’t been the plan for the day, but Dad and Stepmother stopped in on their way through town this morning and dropped off a box of fruit. It’s been really hot again, so the apricots obviously weren’t going to last long enough to be eaten fresh, so…
The latest bird in flight, a peregrine falcon. Which puts me way ahead of where I should be in the quilt-along, but the more I can get done now while life is relatively quiet, the less pressure I’ll have towards the end to get it finished. I’m not entirely happy with my work on this…
aitangi Day today, our national day and anniversary of the signing of Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi. So of course, it being the national day, everyone attends lots of patriotic events and celebrations… actually, no, most people just enjoy having a free day off, and otherwise try their best to ignore…
Terrible lighting, sorry – I took the photo late last night after my second attempt at sewing the final seam (the first one I managed to misalign just enough to look terrible, so I had to unpick it (so many tiny tiny stitches!) and start again), and my attempt at colour correction of the artificial…
ot a call this morning from the builder that the insurance company have appointed. They can’t start work on repairing the damaged eaves until they’ve been tested for asbestos. Because of the age of the house, it’s very likely the material the eaves are made of (which looks kind of like thin concrete) is fibrolite,…
s of today, I’ve managed to post daily for 200 consecutive days. Sort of by accident. When I started the exercise of writing daily, my aim was only to do so for a month, just to see if I could. I seriously doubted I’d manage it (which was why I never actually announced my intention…
ate last night I was woken up by a strange scraping sound outside. It was quite windy, so I assumed it was just a tree branch rubbing against the window somewhere, so (after trying unsuccessfully to ignore it and go back to sleep) I got dressed and went outside to investigate. And discovered it wasn’t…