Day 622 (ish)…
21 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: 101 in 1001, creative, Off topic!, travel
Just a quick post to update you on two things.
Firstly here’s the photo of the quilt that I made for my MIL – 
Secondly as you will know Task 82 was to start my ECDL. Well this week I took the last exam and I’ve now completed it. Shame that I took it in Microsoft 2007 and I found out this week that we’re rolling over to Microsoft 2010 shortly!
Hoping to complete some more tasks this way as we’re off to Wales later today. I can’t wait! Hope your holidays come soon.
Sxx
Day 609 (ish) …
08 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: 101 in 1001, cooking, creative, family, Off topic!, Plymouth, work
Oops, at the end of my last post, I said I’d be updating again soon. Well clearly I lied! It’s been manic, but really there are no excuses, I just forgot! Anyhow, here comes the update…
Task 23 I literally finished this on Friday. A few weeks ago I went on the train with Daniel to Newton Abbot, about thirty minutes away, just because I was bored and had rediscovered my pass. Went to the fabric shop right by the station and ended up buying a jelly roll, a selection of strips of fabric, that are used to make a quilt or whatever you fancy. I am part way through this original one, having decided to go out of my comfort zone and into the realms of lunacy I didn’t bother really looking into what I should be doing and started by making it up as I go along. As you can imagine, this is therefore proving to be more difficult than I hoped and so in a moment of madness, I decided to buy another jelly roll and do something for my mother-in-law, following the guidelines available, for her birthday. It’s not been easy as I had issues with my sewing machine (mainly that I hadn’t threaded it properly) which I have to give a big name and praise to my lovely next door neighbour Ann, who came in and sorted me out in a big way. Equally a praise needs to go to my beloved who helped me unstitch the thing when I made yet another beginner’s error – even with both of us doing this, it took about 90 minutes! Thankfully it’s now completed and wrapped so I’ll link to the photo later.
Task 34 Our planned visit to grandad was a few weeks ago now. I could lie and say we had a 100% fabulous time but sharing a room with my two children is not something that I will ever ever ever do again as a result. Thankfully the days (the important parts) were great and seeing my grandad was lovely – introducing my boy was really special. Roll on a fortnight’s time however for our proper holiday this year!
Task 48 Can I just say that, although I discovered this “wonderful” treat to see, this is not my choice and not my taste. Amelia on the other hand loved our visit to watch a pre-recorded Wiggles concert and I made a small girl very happy. Daniel thankfully slept through most of it!
Task 57 This is an in progress one in that today, Amelia and I planted lots of sunflowers. I’m hoping that at least one of them will grow! I will of course update you in due course!
Task 63 Can’t remember if I told you but following my ballsup which meant we ended up with tiny photobooks, I later got an off through which meant that I was able to sort Simon’s choices out properly. I’ve since also managed to do the same for my own. We are both now very happy!
Task 68 It seems ages since I went to the Tourist information office and collected information on local attractions. This has now been completed with us going on a Dockyards and Warship trip on Monday as we couldn’t go to the aquarium as our passes aren’t valid on bank holidays. Very frustrating but I did manage to tick something off the list as a result.
Task 76 I think I posted elsewhere that the last time I made pastry from scratch has got to be 20 years ago. My mum stopped letting me have anything to do with the stuff – it always ended up either grey or more like shortbread (but without the flavour or sweetness). Well I made pastry and neither of us died. I’m in no hurry to repeat the experiment but at least I feel happy that I can do it!
Totally separately to this project I’d like to add that, like so many others of my online friends, I’m thinking of William and his family at this current time, following on from his sudden death this past week. It’s knocked my on-line community for six and many of us are numb as we can’t begin to imagine the horror that this family are going through. Hug your children close, give your partners a loving kiss, remember that life is sometimes cut short without warning and grab it by, well whatever part of the anatomy you like!
Sxx
PS A dirty word in our house at the moment is work. My change in hours and days have been agreed and currently my first day back is Tuesday 21st June. I say currently as this is also the day that my daughter’s school to be (we got where we wanted thankfully) have chosen as an intro day for both us and her. Aaargh!
Sxx
