This place has felt like a building site for so long. It's still half finished, but I'm trying to cultivate more of a feeling of home. When we began thinking about moving clothes into the new bedroom, we realised we didn't want to keep them all. We made lots of charity shop trips, and it felt good to be creating more space. There's more to do in the bedroom, but I've also moved onto the study. The bookshelves are deep, and the rows of books were at the front, with miscellaneous piles of stuff shoved behind. Notebooks, old magazines, books I'm never going to read again - it's all been turfed out, along with the dust and cobwebs, and slowly a sense of space is emerging. I'm never going to be minimalist, but I'm getting a bit fed up of looking at the same stuff after decades of keeping things 'just in case'. I'm casting my eyes round to see what's next. Moving into the bedroom is what's next. Peter's on the case sorting out shelves and clothes storage, and I've started thinking about blinds. We're going for the easiest, lowest-tech solution first, so I'm attempting to make blinds from some fabric we found in a charity shop years ago and have been carting around ever since, waiting for the right project. I made a very basic prototype roman blind, just to see if it worked. Not properly measured, or pressed, or hemmed, and the rings (which are actually knitting place holders) just tacked on loosely, just to give us an idea. The fabric works, but we've decided to keep it even more simple, with just a straightforward blind with dowels at the top and bottom, that you roll by hand and secure with a tie. If that doesn't work, longer term we'll consider something more sophisticated. I just need to get on the case with sewing them now - but that involves me finishing sorting out the mess I've made in the study so I can get the sewing machine out. In amongst all this, we've had friends to stay, and visited other friends, and I've been baking. I'm not a great baker - I improvise a bit too much, and am usually in a bit of a rush, but my baking usually tastes nice, even if it looks a bit odd. I don't think we're ever going to live in a show home, but I hope one day the house will feel less like a project, and more finished.
Not yet though. This weekend is all about grass cutting, both in the garden and in the hay field. It's hard work and I'm complaining a lot, but hopefully the result will be worth it. Will report back.
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24/4/2022 01:33:35 am
Your colorful photos and writings really capture the seasons. I just love reading about your chickens and how you care for them, especially your sweet rescue hen. This year I'm aware of how destructive Avian flu has been for large and small flocks. Best of luck and thank you for sharing glimpses of your wonderful life.
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