Friday Chat Day

Hello friends

I think I may get an extreme rambling award for this week's Friday Chat Day!

Let the chatter begin...

Firstly, have you got snow?
We were threatened with some, it was certainly chilly at my coach commuter stop
yesterday but all we got was 'snowy rain' –
yes that is how my Amazon Echo described it, I'm pretty certain snowy rain is sleet?
I'm fortunate in that where I wait for my commuter coach it is fairly sheltered,
and the coach itself has started off a mile or so away so it is like a little oven once I board.
I then attempt to distract myself by listening to music or an audio book
(truthfully people watching).
I try not to acknowledge that we are doing only 5mph along the A2 and
approaching the Blackwall Tunnel.
You would think I would be used to the commute having worked in London
and commuted for 30+ years.

Anyway...here is the view from the coach stop, my weekly photo for Instagram.

Grombre – have you heard of it?  

Just in case you don't know (like I didn't until recently) -  

it is women dedicated to celebrating the 

natural phenomenon of grey/silver/white hair.  

In other words – ditching the dye and going grey.  

I've been colouring my hair for quite some time and find it an absolute chore 

but am I brave enough to stop?   

My family say no, it will 'age me' but I see so many women 

with beautiful grey hair.  

And there's also that period of time when you are growing out the colour – 

how do you deal with that?  

Putting it out there for a discussion so please comment, 

I'm rather intrigued by this. 

In other news...

this week brought about a spring clean in Elliott's bedroom 

I actually called it a fumigation. 

Honestly boys/men are not the cleanest and tidiest in their rooms! 

For quite a few years I've tried to step back and not enter their rooms, 

just hand them clean bedding on a regular basis but 

when I realised he couldn't see out of his window, action had to be taken.  

My mother instincts kicked in along with a bottle of Elbow Grease and a can of Pledge!

With the fumigation complete I realised we would need to do a trip to Ikea…
on a Sunday!!  

[Sharp intake of breath please].   

I swore to never go on a Sunday but storage units were needed to finish 

off his room and, with him working all week, we had little choice.  

I've never got through that tunnel, around Ikea and over the bridge back home so quickly, 

I was determined – I really don't like crowds!  

Thankfully Mitchell is a dab hand at putting together flat packs so by 

Sunday night his room was complete and sparkly clean.  

He was very pleased but drew the line when I suggested a 

few wax melts and a nice lavender reed diffuser – oh well, I can but try!  

Crochet – 

This week I was kindly tagged on Facebook by a few charities 

that organise hand knitted/crocheted items for baby units within hospitals.   

(If you are interested, please check out Warm Baby Project on Facebook).

Well this was music to my ears.

When I first foraged into the world of crochet I rushed out and bought yarn…

lots of yarn…

yarn type...I am now questioning why!  

Just like starting out in papercraft, you get caught up in the 

initial wave of enthusiasm and feel an absolute need to buy 

peel offs, wooden stamps and stickers that you find in a drawer ten years later.  

I digress.  

Enthused with this opportunity to use up yarn and donate, 

I'm now making many plain double crochet incubator blankets.  

Oh this is such good telly crochet!

 [Yarn pictured is Poundland Rainbow DK - 3 for 2].

Also this week I've been in my cabin putting the finishing touches to the March Charity Kit. 

Excited about this one as it uses a Spellbinders Kit of the Month die,

not readily available in the UK so a chance for you all to try something new.

Please look out on Sunday for the blog post.  I'll also pop it on Facebook. 

Each month I've been making more kits as the demand has increased, 

so delighted by this. 

For March the chosen charity is British Heart Foundation.  

And finally it wouldn't be a chatty blog post if I didn't mention the pooch.

Bella after a day at Nanny and Grandad's house.

Take care friends, have a super weekend, keep warm and
please stop by on Sunday.