Latest quilt block.........

This is for the third part of our Friendship Quilt thread on Creative Living http://creativeliving.10.forumer.com/index.php

This one is Amish Star; quite pleased with it, it's very pretty. I would like a quilt all in this block, so will keep hold of the instructions for future use.

Early Friday morning.........

This was the sight greeting me from the bedroom window; lovely morning, but very cold. Now turning to that lovely pinky watery winter light I love. Will be lighting the first fire of the season now that winter's here, and I predict snow this year too, on more than one occasion.

Garden is closing down for its winter rest, birds and animals are eating more too, and need to check the wild bird feeders regularly. Plenty to keep me busy inside, though as well as the usual rounds.

Reverse snobbery

Reading on various forums over the past few months, there seems to be a growing number of people who take pride in domestic slobbishness, to a greater or lesser degree, professing to never doing any housework, although I find that hard to believe. Now, my house is hardly a picture of domestic perfection, but I don't boast in any way about it not being, or indeed, being, when it is, unless in fun or with a large dollop of irony. I would certainly never post pictures on the internet of a messy untidy room for all the world to see.
It never ceases to amaze me what some people disclose about themselves on the net. If I want to see things like that I would find Tracy Emin.com :) :)

Back home...........

Well, it feels like I've been away, anyway! I spent 2 1/2 days stewarding the exhibiton for the Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers in Wimborne. Enjoyed the stewarding bit, but being in the town (albeit a very small, by most standards, market town) flummoxed me completely! Noise, traffic, stony faced people, no smiles, shops full of nothing useful or beautiful, tired looking people and goods, just a bit depressing. Finished on Friday lunchtime, back up country (all 26 miles.......) to the land of the living!! Certainly couldn't do it 5 days a week in town, that's for sure. Nice to get home to the house and back into what passes for routine here! Got a bit caught up with in the garden, caught up on the computer, need to get Christmas things organised, meeting tonight. It's all go, and probably not everyone's idea of an exciting life, but there you go. I can live without a lot of excitment.........