mumblings

1. Make my own lip balm

2. Plant new veggies in the garden.

3. Make some bunting.

4. Make a baby kimono jacket.

5. Make a Bigger on the Inside Scarf

6. Have a serious clear out

7. Get a new job

8. Learn how to use a sewing machine

9. Finish my Copine cardigan

10. Go on some bluebell walks

Tamyra’s list has one item : drink out of the new water bowl, we’ve conveniently put on the coffee table. She is puzzled by the silly flower though.

So sorry for the long silence. I’ve been a bit miserable and didn’t want to moan and whinge so I’ve been quiet. I’m a little better now and pao still has a migraine. Yes, it has been four weeks and some for the observant and yes, it is very scary. But, let us not dwell on that. I have one thing to say in my defence for today’s post : “the foxes made me do it”.

I dropped pao off at work this morning, had to meet someone briefly before collecting pao when he finished his part day as part of a phased return to work and was idly walking back up the town and stopped to get a craft magazine in a pretty sewing shop on the way back to the car. I don’t normally look at the fat quarters in such shops as I don’t really know how to sew but the foxes literally jumped out at me.

Before I knew it, I was idly thinking what a cute box bag they’d make.

Thinking of Sarah’s lovely box bags… I suddenly found myself holding the foxes up to other fat quarters with lining in mind. Oh dear. As I said earlier : the foxes made me do it.

Bad foxes. Now I have to return to town tomorrow to buy a zip and some interfacing. Thankfully my friend who has a sewing machine has offered to help me make it on Wednesday. Uh oh.

Sirius is trying to tell me that the foxes are telling me to feed him more tuna. Sorry, Sirius, your Jedi cat tricks don’t work on me!!

Cats are so good at being relaxed. I am not relaxed having taken pao to ER again with worse pain and being told to bring him home and wait for a neurology appt to come through. I think he needs the healing power of Tamyra.

This is my friend’s dog, Dollar, who is ever so sweet It was nice to be greeted so enthusiastically on a very wet and windy day.

In the monkey bag is my newest WIP, started on Monday when pao was waiting around in hospital to be discharged.

It does look large as it is being knit but

Extensive trying on reveals that it isn’t too bad as the back tapers which is nice for my non-straight calves.

Tamyra is taking on the role of the serious but kind younger sibling. Sirius doesn’t seem to take the hint that leaping on the bed proclaiming his presence loudly when one person has a headache is bad enough but when both do… Yes, we still both have headaches. I have some coldy virus which is making me grumpy and pao still has a migraine. I think we are up to day 12 on that migraine now and as George (long-time blog readers will understand that George is pao’s transplanted cornea) was looking very red as was pao’s other eye that we had to make an emergency trip to the hospital to check that George wasn’t trying to reject again as it was something that was going on a few weeks back. Good news is that George is ok but both eyes are infected and sore so pao has lots of drops so I have no reason whatsoever to whine about my headache as it is quite minor in comparison. Two hospital trips this week and a few phone calls to South Dakota re my own medical bills from my US adventure put the provision of ‘free’ healthcare into perspective but despite all that I did rather enjoy my luxury hospital stay in October and I’m sure by now if pao was in the US, we’d probably have seen the neurology consultant by now. The only drawback of our system is that in many cases you have to wait months for appointments.. At least, we have one calm kitten who has spent many happy hours asleep next to one or both of us during the past few days.

All the humans have headaches. They are not as entertaining as they usually are. Tamyra and I say ‘Boo’. Phoebe gives an angry stare.

That is all.

Love
Sirius

Our weather has been so ghastly that we may have to build an ark. This cat I dubbed Rory because I met him the same day I met another gingery tabby who I dubbed Amelia.

1. Friends and family

2.Kittens!

3. Kittens!

4. Yarn stash (and kittens)

5. Proper English tea

6. Tiny Tims (Louise knows where I mean)

7. My own bed! Nothing beats a good night’s sleep. We have quite a firm mattress.

8. Toast and marmite or Gentlemen’s relish (an anchovy paste)

9. Thai take away

10. Did I mention the kittens?

I begun the second of this pair of socks literally in the dark. Pao has been suffering from a migraine since Monday last week so we went to the ER to get it checked yesterday. Thankfully I had this second sock to do to keep me entertained whilst we were waiting for the doctors to do all their tests etc. He is home at home now and has lots of painkillers whilst he waits it out.

We had to laugh as this happened when we got home. It is like Tamyra was waving at Sirius.