Out and About

It has been a gorgeous day today, lovely warm weather much better than we had last night which was heavy rain and hailstones. I took my dog Tilly on a nice walk around the village this morning, not too long as she's getting older now and just likes to go at her own pace, which is normally slow, sniffing everything and anything in sight.

She even made a friend this morning, a cow, and decided it needed a groom and licked all over its face, to my amazement the cow just stood there looking down at her, not bothered at all and then suddenly the cow licked Tilly's entire face, mutual grooming I guess!

Tilly was a little bit tired when we got home and needed a nap, so while she was napping I finished off crocheting a daffodil for a little project I was doing, a posy vase.

 

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Post Surgery Boredom

I had my surgery ten days ago and boredom settled in after day one. I hate sitting around doing nothing it drives me insane, yes I am in pain, no I can't move around, my body was telling me to rest, my brain on the other hand wanted me to get up and get busy. I decided I would make a list of things I could do without actually moving around.

1. Catch up reading posts of blogs I follow.

2. Catch up on emails.

3. Make a nice long list of things I can't do but can get my husband to do with me shouting downstairs every two minutes, have you finished my list yet!

4. Make my dog, Tilly, stay with me and keep me company. This one lasted about an hour, in which time she slept and snored very loudly, once she woke up she decided she had enough and walked off since I wasn't doing anything interesting or anything involving food.

5. Make a list of all the jobs I need to do in the allotment, then look outside and whinge at my husband that it's so nice outside and I can't do any of them.

6. Lots and lots of crocheting.

7. Sort my iTunes out.

8. Check out Easter sale deals. For some time now I have been coveting my mum's Tassimo coffee machine but I just couldn't bring myself around to buying one, I thought they were expensive and took up quite a bit of room, I only have a small kitchen. However, I noticed a couple of deals on Curry's and Argo's website for the Tassimo Vivy which is apparently the most compact one of them all, it cost £35 which I though was very reasonable and I also got two e-codes for £20 off my first order of coffee pods. I now drink at least three times more coffee than I used to!

9. Watch old Ealing films on YouTube.

I guess the only two things I haven't done, until today that is, was watching films and crocheting. I'm a total crochet addict but I could not seem to get my head around doing anything, my brain had gone on strike. Today is the first day I felt the slightest bit of enthusiasm to do any.

Easter has now been and gone and I noticed my tree branches in my window still had the little yellow wooden Easter eggs on it, so I decided to re-decorate it and crochet some bright flowers.

I used Patons Extra Fine DK Merino from Deramores, I just love the colour range. I have just checked the website, they are priced at £4.29 for a 50g ball and there are 45 colours to choose from. I bought mine when they had a special offer on merino wool, it's always worth checking what special offers Deramore's have as they change each week.

The pattern I used was from Attic 24 and is called a Double Flower. I didn't follow the pattern completely I did not want the top of the double flower as I wanted to put a button in the middle and thought it might look a little bit chunky if I did this.

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