Silly Me.

The morning was overcast, windy and very warm after which the day became very hot with scarcely a cloud in the sky. I can now see streaks of clouds over the sea which may well give yet another pretty pink and grey streaky sunset.

While Peter was outside mowing the grass again I had a phone call to say that the sewing machine was ready for collection. It was only a five minute car trip to collect the machine from  the open garage in a safe non-contact way. All I need to do now is to check that the machine is working consistently. Now for the 'silly me' bit. At the moment I'm sticking to one favourite slightly worn duvet cover and saving two brand new ones for when we move. However we've noticed that it wasn't a good fit for the duvet with quite a bit of spare fabric along the side. So I thought I'd run a seam down that side to improve the fit. It was only when I got out the tape measure and looked at the label of the super king feather duvet that I saw I'd failed to take one important fact into account. Which was that the duvet isn't square. I think that because the bed and the mattress are square I'd just assumed the duvet was too. After the cover was washed and ironed I put it back on the duvet, now turned 90 degrees and hey presto it fits perfectly. I'll have to think up a different sewing project to test the sewing machine. 

We managed to spend some time sitting out in the sun again. Not as much as I would have liked but there was ironing to do. While I was out there the female blackbird came and sat on the wall next to me making a fuss about my presence even though I was nowhere near her nest. That back garden is turning into a real wildlife haven. Yesterday evening I watched a pair of hedge sparrows (dunnocks) hopping around very close to the kitchen window after a visit to the rose bush where hopefully they were picking off the aphids and other wildlife from the new buds. A tiny wren was bobbing around under the rhododendron and earlier in the afternoon a pair of blue-tits were in the hedge behind the garden.