friends on the prom

here's a poem i wrote for a friend remembering eating fish and chips on cleethorpes promenade together (parody of one of those nice but slushy poems you get in emails)

friends on the prom

if i could throw a chip to land it on the beach
a gull would come and snatch it up before it could reach

if i could take a brush and run it through my hair
the salty wind would whip it up and tangle every whe

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i cannot make your knees less sore, i've no success with mine,
i cannot make the path of life, less rough with passing time

but i can pray for you my friend, as you have prayed for me
and thank you for the kindness you have shown so faithfully.

EF

New Helpers part 2

New helpers going well. Hot meal every day at lunch ! Plan to try to catch up with pain relief now. Have needed to increase for a while but cos it makes me groggy at first didn't feel safe to leave things to roll. Will try from Weds once I've done the shopping list on Tues. Am relapsing now but enjoyed my remission this summer. Leaves me more hopeful for the future now I know it can happen. Could wish that had had enough help so that could have used my energies for doing other things than just coping here. Well, at least I've been able to sew. That's been lovely. I think I'm pretty burnt out. Just have to chill and get on with the next stage. I'll be able to rest better once the new MP3 player arrives on Thurs. I do love listening to the podcasts of Radio 4 programmes, History Extra and Stuff You Should Know.

Also Our Social Worker made a speech last Tuesday. She went to the new helper and announced that she was to make sure to be thoughtful with me, that I may not look it but I am very poorly and to look after us ! I was all choked up and weepy and that made her weepy too. She said - I never cry. What a difference it makes when some one is nice. Like I said to someone else today, it doesn't cost anything but it's worth diamonds. As it happens this particular helper confided in me after she has 2 sisters both disabled following Hepatitis B jabs like Ruth and Joanna too. !!

New Helpers

The marathon continues here. Said sad goodbyes to the helpers from the other agency. Several of them were lovely. Wish I could have said the same about their management. Now meeting the helpers from the new agency. First one really nice. Much better timetable - just every morning 9 to 12. and one afternoon for the shopping - the supermarket stocks it's fresh fruit and veg on Tuesday mornings. And they're doing the dog walks. Whew !!

 

catch up pics of new stitches

first attempt at appliqué, double beaded hedebo edge border

first try with ribbons. drizzle stitch centre

pistil stitch border

peking stitch , algerian eye stitch oyster stitch, french knots, detatched chain stitch, buttonhole chain stitch butterfly

button hole chain stitch butterfly

pics

dog. using sheaf stitch amongst others. finding sewing less tiring than sitting in front of the computer. uses less brain i think. and less draining on the eyes.

adaptation of linked double chain stitch. mixed threads grey with white. very quick to do but got to number 3 on the weeks posts on the website "stitchin fingers". rather pleased with myself.

from cousin penny's facebook page. auntie joan's 90th birthday. with cousin angela.  beautifully colour coordinated !

ginger biscuit. i'm so cute i couldn't possibly do any mischief could i !

grass !

the grass is growing again already

loaded with conkers. then in autumn they are just left on the ground - would never have been left when i was a kid !

interesting use of a screwdriver. note also the old tiles where the birds nest and in the background on the left the new style of tiling that the birds cant get under

another pic of the sorting hat tree

do you notice anything odd about this tree ? all the older trees on the river bank are the same. the trunks are very short. most odd. well actually the reason is that in the early nineties the river eygues flooded and so the mairie rebuilt the river bank much higher than before. but there was a lovely line of trees along the old river bank. what to do ? they built the embankment up round them - very canny !

joanna's birthday 27/01/2012