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| first attempt at appliqué, double beaded hedebo edge border |
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| first try with ribbons. drizzle stitch centre |
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| pistil stitch border |
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| peking stitch , algerian eye stitch oyster stitch, french knots, detatched chain stitch, buttonhole chain stitch butterfly |
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| button hole chain stitch butterfly |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| from cousin penny's facebook page. auntie joan's 90th birthday. with cousin angela. beautifully colour coordinated ! |
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| ginger biscuit. i'm so cute i couldn't possibly do any mischief could i ! |
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| the grass is growing again already |
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| loaded with conkers. then in autumn they are just left on the ground - would never have been left when i was a kid ! |
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| 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 |
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| another pic of the sorting hat tree |
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| 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 ! |
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| why do they like this plant ? it's the only one with these stripy insects all over |
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| now this plant is covered with snails. |
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| green box - i call this the sorting hat tree. and in purple that's my bedroom window |
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| all the plants are in a sad state. very few flowers |
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| holly hocks looking a bit threadbare |
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| i do love the mullin, very cheering, - but looking rather sparse |
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| this knobbly trunk caught my eye - still sprouting life |
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| despite the heat the river has not quite dried up this year |
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| i love this tree |
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| the view from my bench up the digue, the river bank |
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| view from my bench down the digue |
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| these cheer me up - love this blue. looking a bit worn out at the mo |
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| fair as a star when only one is shining in the sky |
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| tommy, ginger and i |
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| well, at least something is thriving |
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| this is the house where i asked a lady if she was ok once, now often she waits and pretends to be opening the shutters and smiles and waves |
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| this is the house where the parrot lives. in the warm weather they put the birds out on the balcony early in the morning and on my way past when it whistles and chats i whistle back. have had a rather fruitless attempt to teach it happy birthday. it does a selection of dog whistles - well it is right where people walk their dogs :-) |
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| beautiful gnarly old thing |
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| where would we be without the laurier rose in summer - it flowers for months and makes sure there's a bit of colour |
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| little and large |
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| mediterranean pine. love the light against the stormy sky |
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| this is my bench |
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| our flat. |
