Unbought Delicacies: Update :)

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Update :)

Thought it was dire time I gave an update for you all. I'm still in hospital - 4 weeks today, having contracted a very nasty virus.Have been pumped full of anti-biotics and things and am ona very slow mend. I have my knitting and laptop, but am really missing the fresh air and the wee bits of sunshine we've had.Spring may have passed me by, but heyho. I've got company on the ward,but am the youngest one here and the only one with my own teeth! lol
Days tend to all blur in together, though, in a round of mealtimes, dozing and cups of tea. Am happy enough as have vastly improved since I was admitted, but no idea how much longer I'll be here. Not much going on in the Unbought Delicacies department at the moment, but would like to think it won't be too long untilI get back to it all.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hope you get better soon!!; 14 April 2013 at 12:16
Shropshire Girl said...: gosh that sounds awful, hope you get fully fit soon, and back to blogging; 14 April 2013 at 15:35
karenjane said...: Been worried where you were.
Hold onto those teeth of yours!
Get well soon; 14 April 2013 at 18:03
Simone said...: I am so sorry to hear that you have been unwell. You haven't really missed Spring - it only started here today! Get well soon. x; 14 April 2013 at 20:30
Jo said...: Sorry you are ill and hope you make a speedy recovery from now.

Your animals will be missing you and I'm sure that you are missing them too - but it won't be long now...

Thanks for the update - I'd been wondering what the problem was.; 15 April 2013 at 10:29
Living in the Bay said...: Two friends from across the pond send you warm wishes. We missed you and hope you are better soon.; 16 April 2013 at 00:51
Writing from the Edge said...: I wondered where you'd gone! I thought maybe you were crossing continents! Now I know you've just been shuffling along corridors - very sorry to hear that. Hope you will soon be home in your own bed, and feeling full of the joys once again.; 16 April 2013 at 17:39
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Sue xx said...: How have I missed this? I'm so very sorry to hear you have been so ill and hope that today is Going Home Day for you,
Love from Sue
xxx; 8 May 2013 at 09:40

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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Sunday, 14 April 2013

Update :)

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