I hope you feel better soon, Liz. Well done on all the sewing! I have lost count of all the projects I have abandoned over the years: I think I am too impatient.

Kat, your young man has a real "old" head on his shoulders. He's a treasure! You are so lucky! The tasks don't seem so when somebody makes them fun.

You are all impressing me with your activity! I haven't done that much over the last week, although I did eventually finish the salt dough figure that had been causing the box of paints to hang around on the table for absolutely AGES....but now the hall is being decorated, all the coats etc are piled up on it now. Peter got a lot of painting done yesterday while I was off meeting family in Whitby for the day (life's hard, ain't it?). However he's not coming today, so things are still where they have been put and the study is resuming its previous dumping ground status. When he's finished, and I can get at the loft access a bit more easily, I can get some more stuff away.

One achievement this week has been to get the printer to work wirelessly again, and so it has been moved to where I wanted it. In the next couple of weeks I am going to have to start doing boot fairs. I have too much stuff to cope with on my own, so I may have to do two smaller lots. In past years I have done them with my friend (who has moved 250 miles away) or my daughter (whose husband works weekends, and is therefore Freya-laden).

My sister in law firmly told me to lay off the heavy gardening yesterday, when she found out about my wedged vertebra. Well that ain't going to happen, as there's never an able body available when I want anything doing! Between us we're a right pair - she suffers from vertigo, and my shoulders and back are not what they used to be!

Andrea