A great big hello to anyone who still comes to read my posts .... not that I write any .. but if you are here ... thank you for popping in ... I will try to be a better blogger and do this a bit more frequently (i say that lots) and I do hope this will read ok ... some of my faculties are no longer with me due to the damage the stroke caused ... but all in all I am still me and I am great most of the time ... well I think I am ... lol ... when I am on my own it's hard to tell ... haha
But I have been playing with this blog for a couple of hours trying to get rid of the wretched spammers ... I guess it's my fault as I don't visit here often and I post here never ... now so I do not have to repeat this process I have changed the comment posting setup and now all comments will have to wait till I authorize them ... I had just under 100 spam comments .. really you would think these people would get off their butt and go get a job and stop wasting peoples valuable time ...
Anyway ... on to other topics ... what have I been up to ... ummm ... nothing much ... I did catch a plane up to Brisbane and spent a few weeks with my sister in Leyburn, sort of south of Toowoomba in May ... I was going to stay until this week but Marcos was a bit unwell so I came home early... It was lovely to see my little sis ... it had been 2 years since I saw her last and she had some flybuy points left after booking a return trip for her and hubby to Perth so she figured she'd give me a return trip ... I did tell her I am worth it .. lol .. She is so sweet and I love her to bits .. they have a little granny unit out the back of their house and it is so very comfortable ... and it made the stay very relaxed ... they could go off to bed whenever they wanted .. they just kicked me out and told me to go home .. lol ... I am still an all-nighter girl and I still tend to sleep til noon if I am not woken up ...
What have I been sewing .... ummm ... nothing much ... .... did I tell you I went to visit my sister ... yeah I did ... but I didn't do any sewing there either ... I do have enough fabric and patterns to last 3 people a lifetime of sewing ... and here I am with at best 20 years ... I did say at best ... I don't think I really have that long to get everything done ... I need to get busy and at least get the quilt tops done ... I have some done ... and I have some that have been quilted .. just need them to get some binding attached ... and ... I need to do these things sooner rather than later ... cos later is sort of catching up on me ... Marcos has said I need to do a bit of a cull cos we have discussed this and we both have decided we are going to move back to the mainland, and head north ... not sure how far north .. but north it will be ...
I remember when I really loved the cold and winter was something I truly looked forward to ... but this winter ... well it has cured me of that ... I was reading a post that I wrote in 2012 here in blog land .. and I was coming on the cold miserable weather ... and the 9-degree temperature ... which felt like 5* .... well let me just say ... Oh my goodness ... what a sookie lala I was back then .... our weather here in Tassie has warmed up somewhat this week .... last week we were getting minus everything ... lol ... It was truly freezing cold ... in the middle of the day it was still zero degrees ... yea zero at 11:00am ... now for Australia folks .. that borders on being bloody cold ... we were getting -3* feels like -6 .... and yep ...that has cured me ... the fire is lovley ... but someone has to chop this wood and with Marcos latest heath thin he is not able to do it ... and he won't let me swing the axe cos he rerckons I will end up chopping either my leg or his head off .... hmmmm ... .... i need to resist that temptation .. heeeheee
But yep we are coming back up where we will be closer to the kids for a bit of youthful support where and when support may be required .... and probably far enough north that I can start complaining about the heat ... but really ... but truly .. at this point in my life it won't matter where we live the weather will not be my friend .. ever ... it will be too hot or too cold .. but there is always aircon or heaters ... so I will be fine .. I think I would rather look out the window and see a hot/cold sunny day than a wet rainy dull summer/winter day .. .. our lease expires next April so we will be on the road at the end of April heading north .. and hopefully, there will be a lot of quilt tops in the packing boxes ...
Well my lovelies ... that is all for now ... I do hope what I wrote makes sense ... it feels good to put my thoughts, as jumbled as they might be, into print.
love and hugs .... 💓
