April 05th, 2019

Birthday morning feet up in the sun!

 Oh my goodness!  Where does time go… ?
All I seem to write in here are ‘updates’ because I haven’t written anything else recently, this is a sadly neglected blog!
Here we are in April 2019 and the last time I officially showed up in here was September 2018.  SO much has happened since then that I’m not going to try and write an update and  instead of feeling guilty and harassed and giving myself a hard time about what I haven’t written I’m just going to draw a line under it and start again.
I’ve back dated a couple of posts, and added some poems, I’m not going to promise to show up in here every week although I will promise that it is my intention to make it here at least once a month….. however, you can find me a little more regularly on Instagram and Facebook.  And I am writing the second edition of The Needlesmith so there will be more in there.  (It's now on Issu and will open as a magazine if you click the link)

I am ab-so-loot-lee certain, that there are no longer seven days in a week.  I keep reading articles, blogs, listening to podcasts about a simple life, slow living, slow travel.  Maddy from aslowadventure.com, Kayte at www.simpleandSeason.co.uk  endorses simple business plans,  Jane www.Snapdragonlife.com  is going to be having a quiet month experiment, Becky Cole www.beckyocole.com focuses on slow natural living...
... sometimes I think they must all have extra days in their weeks to be able to live slowly.  As I feel that I am at least three days short in a week and often 4, it can be a bit frustrating!
However, I do prefer to be busy, and at the end of a difficult week, a cup of tea with a dear friend this afternoon, an hour and a half of talking about anything and everything, writing, and things we’ve read and listened to, seems to have gently cleared the blockage and my fingers are itching to write & type and paint & sew again.  To Get ON!  So I’ve made a start this evening with this piece, and some plans and a couple of outlines of articles for the journal.  I’ve ordered some fabric tonight , oh and some handmade in Wales soap-on-a-rope from Firain www.firain.com as recommended by Jessica Rose Williams www.jessicarosewilliams.com in her newsletter this week, so I'll be sitting on the doorstep waiting for our grumpy postman soon!
 
Well, until next time I pop in, may your needles stay sharp and your thread not snap.
With love
Kx

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PS. Talking of sharp things.... my brother has been over from Glasgow this week with his 6 month old ferret called Dora such a pretty wee thing but boy are her teeths sharp!  Further sharpened on my index finger and dad's thumb!

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She also climbs....... fast!

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