When you're cross . . .

. . . gardening is a very good thing. I've just spent an hour cleaning windows , and then - suitably horrified by the amount of grass and weeds amongst a little strip of cobbling by the path to the patio, I set to with bare hands. As a stress-buster, it was very therapeutic. I got rid of 6 buckets of weeds and replaced with 6 buckets of gravel, to cover the gaps between the cobbling and indeed, most of the cobbles too. Looks tidier anyway. Front porch and path tidied, swept and washed. I still have NO TIME for the vet's receptionist, however . . .


If this Santa looks good enough to eat, it's because he is made from meringues (beard mainly), and marshmallow :)

We found this stone owl (on a wooden tree base) in the graveyard of Llandeilo Church. I'm not sure if he is meant to be a memorial for someone or what, but he certainly stands out amongst the headstones.


Here's a frosty scene from Llandeilo on Monday. I went looking for an angel on a gravestone for Nancy, and looking for a mare and foal in a bad way (and in need of help from Lluest) for my friend Nanny. I found the angel, but no sign of the mare and foal, though I searched where they were supposed to be. Nanny's husband will go and do a reccy tomorrow.



Now I'm back to my Christmas swag to hang over the fireplace . . . photos when it's finished. I've also been sorting out curtains and was able to fill the cist that had the big heavy plush pair with most of my bags and lengths of material up in my work-room. The curtains are hung in our re-decorated bedroom, and I have sewn brass curtain rings on the back of the Medieval-style pelmet which is going in the downstairs hall, over the big archway, with a matching yellow curtain beneath it.

These new curtains are SO warm and snug. The walls are actually a deeper raspberry colour and not so pink as they appear because of the camera flash. Below is the Medieval style pelmet which went with them when they were a shop window display (buying ex-display curtains is VERY good value - I got them half the price they would have been if I'd had them made to order). You can just see the lightweight golden lining material, which also backs the curtains above. Looking at them, they would be quite easy to make up - until you got the really heavyweight material (the gold with lettering) behind and I think I would have to hand sew that together as my machine would cough its last. Then the cord edging is hand-sewn too of course.

This is another ex-display curtain - and matches the design on the heavyweight material above quite well. It has four very deep French pleats with hooks so my husband is sorting out how to hang it up beneath the pelmet. I think I must have a thing about Latin writing, as I have it on my bathroom curtains too . . .


Tomorrow I am off up North to collect our eldest daughter, and hopefully will be blogging again on Saturday.