Shells

I finished my green blanket, I had bought a tube of five different shades of green, actually I bought two tubes and I just crochet from dark to light with white in the middle.

The plan was to do a border in white to pull it all together. 

I knew how I wanted it to look except I had not done it before. 

I practised on slippers last night then this afternoon, I decided to bite the bullet and just do it. 

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Japanese knot bags

The charity that I make things for also need bags to hold toiletries. Today I used the last of the inserts for the quilts so not making any more of those for awhile. I had some cord so I made four drawstring bags to use that up.

Now I am making knot bags, they have one longer handle that the other so it can be looped over. When we were first in China it wasn't unusual to see women walking on the streets and knitting. The wool was contained a bag over their arm, it was probably something like these. 

Woodford

We went for a drive today, a very small windy road and ended up at a great look out. It wasn't the greatest day, cold and windy but we could just make out the sea.

Needed coffee and something to go with it to warm up so down the mountain we went and into one of our fav bakeries for a steak and kidney pie.

Took a short walk so Warren could scale a tree.

We passed this huge tree. Would not have liked being around when it came down.

Linville

We didnt know that Linville's pub had/has not one one but three resident ghosts. Part of the pub used to be as a mortuary. There were a few deaths connected to the building and running of the railway track.

An interesting house alongside the pub.

 The railway station was across the road.

We walked out on the railway track which the rails have been pulled up and it is now a bike and walking track.

Lunch!

Our new oven and stovetop was scheduled to be installed on a Wednesday afternoon about 3pm.

It was a cold day and I decided to make soup for lunch. Warren came home from tennis and told me that there had been a change of plan and the electrician would arrive about 12.30 just when lunch was going to be ready.

We decided to turn off the soup so the stove top could cool down, but the problem was lunch. An easy solve, hamburgers from the local shop. They are good and filling and we don't have them very often.

This is a works burger, complete with salad, cheese, beetroot, pineapple and onion, need a knife and fork to deal with it. I could only manage to eat half of it but it was good!

Last week it was the swap of ovens.

I was thinking of a counter top small oven probably something like an air fryer. We were heading out as it was house cleaner day but it was raining so I suggested we go and look at one.

Only a couple in the stores and they were more like a toaster oven, not what I wanted at all. Warren said that we really needed to upgrade the oven and stove top.

Two hours later, we had bought both, got given a discount of both which was a surprise but who am I to knock back a $150 discount? The stove top was floor stock as it was the only one left. Also arranged the installation.

Old one.

New one. There is a drawback that we have discovered. The knobs are black which I like but at night, they are hard to see. Warren says he will paint the ridge white or silver so I can see what temp to dial up.

An Early Delivery

We (Warren) had to be up early this morning as during last week, he got a text to say that our new sofa will be arriving between 7.15 and 9am today.

We had seen and ordered it in the first days of the easing of lockdown restrictions. One place that we looked at, had theirs in stock but we preferred the one we bought although we had a four or five week wait. Well, that turned into longer as we think ours went into Morton Bay when container fell off a ship back in June as just after that we got a call to say that it wouldn't be available until August. I figured that the rest of the money could stay in our bank account until then.

We were going to get two single chairs but when we saw this and sat in it, we were sold on it. It is electric so there are buttons for everything and usb ports.

The backs came separate and we had to put it together, after we opened one of the armrests and discovered the instructions! Thankfully we didnt need them.