UFOs – Tapestry Cushion and Harris Tweed TBD

Thank you for all your fantastic comments, Elle! I so enjoyed reading them all. Wel done, too, for all the catching up – quite a bit of reading to do! You and I have so much in common. How I would love to get together and have a good natter over a cup of tea, with a cat or two to stroke, too!

I agree with you about expensive crafty equipment. Very often you can get the equivalent from a different discipline at a fraction of the cost. You can get interesting things from florists, and I’ve bought all sorts of bits and pieces from our local farm supplier – poultry grit makes the most fantastic texture for mixed media projects, for example! I use polyfilla instead of expensive moulding paste and it does a great job.

I’m glad your ceramic bowls work OK on the box for the cats. I know Ruby would knock it off though! They seem to be fine with the new bowls and I like that they fix into the place on the base. My hubby was worried that they would be put off because they were different, but the very first time they had them, it was the food they were interested in and the bowls didn’t make any difference at all! Ruby’s only been sick once and we think it is because she eats so fast. When they are sick with grass it’s usually ony a bit of liquid.

Very interesting about the China Study. I haven’t actually read it but I know about it. Dr. T. Colin Campbell is one of my heroes – a great champion of the whole-food plant-based lifestyle. The film “Forks Over Knives” has quite a bit to say about his work. It’s been a great adventure for me and I thoroughly enjoy the food – I love cooking, and I think we have far more variety now than we did when we were omnivores. My hubby hasn’t complained of any further pain over the past week or two and I think now he’s drinking a decent amount of water every day, it’s bound to help.

I’ve visited your post about the apples and plums and left a comment there. A lovely post!

I’d be very interested to hear how you make your soya milk. I had a nifty little machine but unfortunately it’s broken and I’ve devised a new method. I don’t make as much as I should and need more Okara!! My home made tofu was not a success so I buy it now, and love it. Your brownie and mayonnaise recipes sound interesting too and I’d love to hear how you use tofu for those. I’m keen to get as much soya into me as possible at the moment to counter the effects of my oestrogen blocker!!

I am finding I watch my digitised DVDs much more than when they were still DVDs. I’ve still got masses, though and I doubt I’ll ever finish digitising them all! Most of them are home-made ones. I always back everything up – I’m paranoid about it, having lost too much stuff in the past when I didn’t know any better!

We used to have awful trouble with kitties in the car. Poor little Phoebe didn’t travel well and stuff used to come out of every oriface. Beatrice would cower at the back of the cat carrier to try and stop being covered in it. Phoebe was relatively quiet but Beatrice would yowl and howl for the whole 20 minute journey! It’s much easier now with the vet being just down the road – a 5 min. car journey. Our present two have even been known to purr at the vet’s!!! I thought they sounded pretty heavy after this latest weigh-in but they can’t compete with yours – I can’t imagine having all that weight of kitty flesh on me! Just over a stone is quite enough for me!

Shoshi x

I am sure your kitty is smiling and bet she’s hoping you will leave this lovely pile for her to cuddle up with. You don’t need to tell me about boxes of forgotten stuff, I have loads of it! The tweed pieces would make a nice patchwork bag maybe. Wishing you a lovely and creative woyww, Angela x6x