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Thursday, 30 January 2025

Sunshine.


It's amazing how everything looks so much better with a bit of sun. It has been cloudy and still fairly cold though I have been indoors for the whole day, apart from leaning on the rail with my coffee.
My spring cleaning job for the day was to clean a small corner cupboard in the inner hall. That contains our limited collection of drinks which as neither of us drink spirits or wine means they last for a very long time. Handy for guests and sometimes for cooking. I also took down and cleaned the antlers that live on top of a tall wooden cupboard there. The antlers are not a pair. The larger one is really heavy and carrying a pair of them on your head must be hard going for a stag. They must be quite relieved when the antlers drop off in the spring.

We had our Welsh Zoom class in the afternoon and at last we are moving on to the next level. Homework this week was one exercise from the entry level and then ..... learn the vocabulary for Unit One of Sylfaen. As one of our class is taking the exam next week we did some practice questions including an old favourite 'What do you like to do in your spare time?' to which I always respond with 'What spare time?' before going on to answer properly. I'm afraid I still have a tendency to be the class joker. 
For the rest of the day I've carried on working on the silver sequinned top. So far I've done the shoulder seams which I've bound with bias binding and continued removing sequins (one by one!) from the armhole edges. It's going to be a long job.
These are the primulas I bought for 10p each in B&M last year. They're doing well though the snails seem to like the blue flowers. I can also see a few holes in the arum leaves.
I've just got home from disco aerobics, exhausted but on a high as usual. I walked home with two other ladies from the class, one lives across the road and another in the next street. It's nice to have company though the walk isn't long.

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