What are you all up to

Well remembered ABM, sometimes you can see differences. I shared knitting a footie scarf for my OH with Mum. We could see the difference, luckily he never noticed.👍

No, not with carefully selected ones done by good needle "persons," they usually show the back of the work as well as the front on ebay, I'm very picky! (I do lots of my own too but I can't resist finishing something that needs love and attention.) 

I did finish one for my Aunty once who'd lost the abilty to sew and although it was a mess on the back she was pleased to see the final item.

Must be my primary school days..we didn't dare get a stitch wrong in sewing lessons! 

I have two big projects oN the go brue. One is a Lavender and Lace Celtic lady, Summer. The other is George and the Dragon. All the cross stitch is done on the latter, but every change of colour has to be backstitched, and it’s got a tad tedious. Supposed to be making it into a fire screen......one day.

Another good day all round. Although it was dull, it had warned up somewhat, and it stayed dry till mid afternoon. Went for my Vaccination and all done and away within 35 mins. We then had a decent walk over through the nature reserve by the shore. Then received a phone call from the hospital to arrange a day for my stitches to come out.   Stopped in at Aldi on the way home for milk and came away loaded, 4 large Xmas puddings, 2 medium sized Xmas cakes, 3 small boxes of Moser Rath chocolate creams, and  large Panetonne Classico all for under £1 in total!!

I was listening to a programme radio 4 this morning where they were talking about ring necked parakeets. Most people had seen green but one lady had seen a yellow one. She was my boss at the NHS at one time. She pops up everwhere - she was on Gardeners Question Time a few months ago!

It sounds as though you had a succesful day Nellie. You are all stocked yp  up for next Christmas! So pleased you got you covid vaccination

Stopped in at Aldi on the way home for milk and came away loaded, 4 large Xmas puddings, 2 medium sized Xmas cakes, 3 small boxes of Moser Rath chocolate creams, and large Panetonne Classico all for under £1 in total!

Only 1 thing to say - PIGGIES.

Glad the jab went well. Looks like your luck was in today.

It sounds as though you had a successful day Nellie. You are all stocked up for next Christmas!😁

We will certainly keep a couple of the puds for next year as their use by date is March 2022. The rest will be consumed during the year, and we won't eat them all at once. Had to get them today as I'm sure they will all be gone by the time we go there again in the week.

Jab certainly went well but my arm is feeling heavy now. Hopefully that will wear off by tomorrow.

Really enjoyed the Marine-Spurs match , so good to watch a real FA cup game . Premier side against one 160 places below them in the FA league , and named after the local boozer 😀, you did yourselves proud lads ..

That’s quite an Aldi haul Nellie. I love it when you come away with a huge bag of goodies for next to nothing. We did the reverse at Waitrose before Xmas, a small bag and we spent a fortune. But it’s swings and roundabouts. Waitrose do a really lovely Lemon Mayo, we like to stock up.

I think Aldi sell the best tasting chocolate by far. Love their seashells😋

My ' local ' Aldi has been turned into an Iceland Food Warehouse  and Aldi is now on the far-side of the old teacher training college / Manchester Metro University, so now its only accessible if I drive and i will have eaten all that Diabetic Choccy by the time I've reversed, turned round and driven back home 

Ah well, nothing lasts for ever snivel sob sob