Friday, 4 October 2013

Yet more bags and kitchen too!

Hi everyone 

And so begins another blustery day in Wales.  The leaves on the willow trees around the duckpond in the park behind our road are shivering and rustling in the wind, with the fast moving clouds of grey and white flashing cross the blue background of the sky, what's not to like.

I really I enjoy the up-cycling life, it can be so rewarding, I thoroughly recommend it.  I am overwhelmed by peoples generosity, three more donations have arrived at my font door, amongst them a pair of cream damask curtains and beautiful pair of children's curtains in pink with white polka dots, edged with green with pink flowers, absolutely prefect,  exactly what I was looking for for my granddaughters quilt.  My dining room is being converted into a haberdashers of sorts as I speak!   With these donations has been a meeting of neighbours before only acknowledged with a wave as they drive by, all wanting to know what I am doing and why, and I thought I was nosy.  Added to which having just demolished a bathroom for a client, I was about to take it to the skip and decided to offer it on Gumtree and Freecycle as a freebie, amazed at the number of potential takers and the whole lot was gone within 24 hours  saving me petrol and time tipping it and providing someone else with the means to create a new (ish) kitchen.  Fantastic idea, whoever though of it..  I love discovering and doing new things and that's all I seem to do at the moment, and it is great, hence the Winnie the Pooh poem below.

So my weekend is set, some rubble sacks to the tip (I couldn't give those away, but I did think about it!!); Quilting class, really looking forward to that; and tidying up the garden, veg borders to clear and prepare for the next planting, and some baking. Somewhere I am going to slip in some knitting and more quilting.  Absolute bliss.

So please have a lovely weekend wherever in the world you are, and I will be back on Monday.  

Us Two (Alan Alexander Milne)

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.

"What's twice eleven?" I said to Pooh.
("Twice what?" said Pooh to Me.)
"I think it ought to be twenty-two."
"Just what I think myself," said Pooh.
"It wasn't an easy sum to do,
But that's what it is," said Pooh, said he.
"That's what it is," said Pooh.

"Let's look for dragons," I said to Pooh.
"Yes, let's," said Pooh to Me.
We crossed the river and found a few-
"Yes, those are dragons all right," said Pooh.
"As soon as I saw their beaks I knew.
That's what they are," said Pooh, said he.
"That's what they are," said Pooh.

"Let's frighten the dragons," I said to Pooh.
"That's right," said Pooh to Me.
"I'm not afraid," I said to Pooh,
And I held his paw and I shouted "Shoo!
Silly old dragons!"- and off they flew.

"I wasn't afraid," said Pooh, said he,
"I'm never afraid with you." 

So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two,
Can stick together, says Pooh, says he. "That's how it is," says Pooh.

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