Postal call

It’s nice to be back and blogging again. I have to confess that I feel really lost without the internet. We hardly use the phone, so being without that was no great hardship, but having no internet access pushed me close to behaving like a two year old.
On Wednesday I sent Gorgeous Man down to [...]

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Greetings, I’ve been offline a little longer than I anticipated due to serious problems with the phone line, we’ve had at least 4 visits from the phone company to sort it out, but it’s fixed now. I could have posted from Gorgeous Man’s office, but it’s on the second floor of a building with [...]

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See you on the flip-side

I’m going to be off-line for a few days. We are moving house on Monday and it’s going to take a couple of days to get my new computer (yah!) and internet connection set up.
I will be a woman of leisure after the move, so hopefully will have some time to catch up on all [...]

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Day tripping

On Sunday, for Gorgeous Man’s birthday, we headed out to Worcester (about an hour and a half away) to visit the Karoo Desert Botanical Gardens.
Even though Spring is here (not that you’d know it today – rain and 16C or 47F) there is still a trace of snow on the mountains.

We had a lovely fine [...]

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First attempts at hand quilting

I started hand quilting the African Animals quilt on Thursday using the stab-stitch method, and although it was really slow, the front looked ok. The back however, was a dog’s breakfast.
So I looked up about 20 hand quilting tutorials, picked a method that I thought I could do, and started again using running stitch. I [...]

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A Quilt and a Flower

If today’s post is a little disjointed it’s because I’m really, really tired.
The quilt is half-basted. I got down on the floor yesterday and pinned the thing until my back said “enough!” and Gorgeous Man said “Time you went to bed” – given that I had to get up 3 times last night, it [...]

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At last it was my turn…

When I hit my late 20s my biological clock didn’t just start ticking, it exploded. The yearning for a child became very strong. Unfortunately we weren’t in a position to even try to get pregnant since I was funding Gorgeous Man’s doctoral thesis and the choice was food on table or child. Suddenly it seemed [...]

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