Unbought Delicacies: MrsL is poorly...

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

MrsL is poorly...

Hello everyone :) Bean, daughter of MrsL here, with a quick update. Unfortunately MrsL has been taken ill and has been in hospital since Monday night. The doctors are performing lots of tests and scans, but unfortunately surgery is required. However she remains her old self, is having a lie down and doing more of MrL's socks as we speak, and is raring to get back and do some writing here :) Apologies if this post is a bit short, I'm only the messenger :) but hopefully I'll be back soon with more news. Take care everyone :)

14 comments:

Kath said...: Thank you for updating us! Sorry to hear MrsL is so ill :(
x; 9 December 2009 at 22:55
Anonymous said...: Thank you for letting us know, Bean.

Give your Mama my love and wishes for a speedy recovery.

Take care,
Sue Caissy
DTE coffeee; 9 December 2009 at 23:28
Willow said...: I do hope your Mum is feeling better soon, Bean. Send her my best wishes and tell her to keep knitting!

Willow xx; 10 December 2009 at 07:20
Leanne said...: Bean, please give your mum my love, I'll pop in to see her when she is up to it/ well enough

Leanne x; 10 December 2009 at 07:22
Bovey Belle said...: Sorry to hear this, Bean, please wish her a speedy recovery from me.; 10 December 2009 at 07:48
Vivianne said...: I hope she is better soon xx; 10 December 2009 at 07:58
Carolemc said...: Very sorry to hear Mrs L is in hospital - wishing her a very speedy recovery.

With love from Carolemc.x; 10 December 2009 at 08:52
brightandnew said...: Sorry to hear MrsL is unwell - hope she is feeling better soon.; 10 December 2009 at 09:21
aromatic said...: So sorry to hear MrsL is unwell!
Wishing her a speedy recovery...
Jane xxx; 10 December 2009 at 09:42
Carolyn said...: Gosh, poor Mrs L. I do hope that all goes well and she has a speedy recovery xx; 10 December 2009 at 11:57
Mrs M said...: Wishing Mrs L a speedy recovery and hope she is back home very soon.; 10 December 2009 at 12:59
Anonymous said...: poor Mrs L - hope you are better soon; 10 December 2009 at 14:12
Suzy said...: Gosh, sorry to hear that MrsL is ill. Get well soon.

Suzy xx; 10 December 2009 at 16:29
Jacqui said...: Sending lots of healing wishes down to you Mrs L. Thanks for letting us know. xxx; 10 December 2009 at 21:40

I have found such joy

I have found such joy in simple things;
A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread,
A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings,
The shelter of a roof above my head,
And in a leaf-laced square along the floor,
Where yellow sunlight glimmers through the door.
I have found such joy in things that fill
My quiet days: a curtain's blowing grace,
A potted plant upon my window sill,
A rose, fresh-cut and placed within a vase;
A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair,
And books I long have loved beside me there.
Oh, I have found such joys I wish I might
Tell every woman who goes seeking far
For some elusive, feverish delight,
That very close to home the great joys are:
The elemental things- old as the race,
Yet never, through the ages, commonplace.

~ Grace Noll Crowell

Ideas for handmade gifts

Small knitteds - gloves, scarves, hot water bottle covers, hats, tea cosies, phone covers, little toys,,cushion covers, bags. Some of these can be felted/fulled for extra interest.
Edibles - chutneys and jams, pickles, nice teas in a vintage/retro tin, sweeties, toffees, mustard, home made wine and liqueurs, home dried fruits, ketchups.
For the home - trimmed tea towels, handknitted dishcloths, quilted wallhangings, small samplers, restored picture frames, pot pourri, lavender bags, covered coathangers, little scented bags for hanging on handles, framed photos of family,etc you've taken yourself, pincushion,needle book, scissor keeper, book of promises (eg babysitting, 1 hour's housework, the ironing, etc)
Bathtime - homemade soap, bath oils, bath salts, knitted washcloths, herbal bags for the bath, hand sewn toilet bags, trimmed hand towels, homemade lotions and potions packed in pretty jars and bottles.
For the garden - home saved seed in handmade decorated packets; homemade handcream, exfoliating soap, wheat bag for those digger's aches and pains!

Handmade books, personalised printed notepaper and envelopes.
Hamper of bits and bobs from the above lists, packed in a pretty lined basket.

I'll add some more as and when I think of them; These can be used all year round and easily tailored to the recipient - everyone loves a homemade gift. :)

Inspiring thoughts.............

I saw a man, an old Cilician, who occupied an acre or two of land that no one wanted.
A patch not worth the ploughing, unrewarding for flocks, unfit for vineyards;
he, however, by planting here and there among the scrub cabbages or white lilies and verbena and flimsy poppies, fancied himself a king in wealth, and coming home late in the evening, loaded his board with unbought delicacies.
Virgil

I had no theories to prove. I merely wanted to try living by my own hands, independently as far as possible from a system of division of labour in which the participant loses most of the pleasure of making and growing things for himself. I wanted to bring in my own fuel and smell its sweet smell as it burned in the hearth I had made. I wanted to grow my own food, or forage after it. In short I wanted to do as much as I could for myself, because I had already realised from partial experience the inexpressible joy of doing so.

Harlan Hubbard, Shantyboat: A River Way of Life

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Wednesday, 9 December 2009

MrsL is poorly...

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