So many pluses to having Mum come and stay!! 🙂
Apart from the fact she is making me sit still and not dash about like a mad thing, its lovely sitting in the sun or by the fire chatting and attending to the knitting or crochet projects I am doing.
Mum has been sewing up my gloves and tucking in tails on my berets
I even got to start teaching her how to make the berets!
I’ll be able to drop off the set of Cozy Cuffs that are completed to the local tourist shop that requested them before I left on the Overland.
I will have to get to and make a number more so I have some in reserve if they want more. It is colder now so perhaps more likely people will buy them more often!
I also got a lovely surprise in the mail – a box with some books and magazines from my Favourite Uncle!! 🙂 How great is that? One of the magazines has some interesting hiking articles that I am keen to get into and one of the books is a beautiful old collectable Enid Blyton! (Which Mum took up to bed to have a read and revisit her childhood!)
Lucky me!
Hope your day was great too!
Cheers from the lazy one in Tasmania! 😀
Mums are certainly wonderful! Enjoy her company as long as you can.
Thanks so much – its been lovely!
I hope you are feeling better. It is nice to have your Mom, but too bad you had to get sick to get her to visit.
Such pretty colors on your knitting. Everything is so colorful.
Take care,
Janet
Thanks Janet! It’s been lovely having her here – happily my parents are booked to return to Tassie in September, so hoping I will be in tip top shape to enjoy getting out with them then!! 🙂
Hope you are on the mend. Sorry for the bump in your road! Know having you ur mum with you makes everything better. The knitting projects are sooo lovely. Keep getting well! Linda Hart in Ga
Hi Linda! Thanks so much!… reckon I am slowly getting there! 🙂
Glad you’re on enforced chair rest! The berets are looking good.
Enid Blyton reminds me of my childhood- I read so many of her books. I particularly liked the Famous Five and the Five Find Outers (and dog) but my absolute favourite was the Secret Island where four runaway children lived in a house made of willow sticks and a cave on an island on a lake. They had chickens (and a cow they swum across!), foraged, cooked on a wood fire and grew vegetables. I think it may have heavily influenced my lifestyle! (Sadly, I don’t live in a cave but I’m building a willow teepee for the children at preschool!)
I have been allowed out a bit today! 🙂
Oh! One of the books my Uncle sent was The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage!!
And also one of my most favourite stories was The Secret Island too!! Such a great adventure! Wonderful idea trying out a willow teepee… I have always wanted to try this living house!! My other favourite series was the Adventure series with Pip, Diana, jack and Lucy and Kiki their talking parrot. They were great stories!
I remember The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage. With PC ‘Clear Orf’ Goon :-))
And I loved the Adventure stories, I’d forgotten them. I didn’t like the Secret Seven as much though, can’t remember why.
Poor old ‘Clear Orf’ 😀 I think the Secret Seven by the time I got on to them, they were just a bit young for me.
Whats your favourite of the Adventure series? I loved the Valley of Adventure most even though the rest of them ran a close equal second haha
Valley of Adventure is the one I immediately thought of when you mentioned the series. Did you read the other Secret books after the Secret Island? I remember reading some of them- The Secret of Killimooin- but I don’t think I read all of them.
I learnt loads from reading those books. I remember impressing my FIL with my knowledge of 1950’s haymaking when I was first going out with my husband (I think he was reminiscing when we saw an old machine somewhere) and that was entirely down to reading The Caravan Family :-))
I think I have got/read most of the Secret books – none were quite as fantastic as the first one though! Hollow Tree House is similar but for younger kids… mean aunt/usless uncle kids run away and live in a hollow tree. 🙂
lol – Its been a while since I read the Caravan Family and that series!
I learned a lot of farm stuff from ‘6 cousins at Mistletoe Farm’
ooo – I loved the Mallory Towers school books too!
I didn’t read Mistletoe farm, but I loved Mallory Towers too. They were my youngest’s favourites but she didn’t like the St Clare’s series.
Hope you’re enjoying the books your Uncle sent you!
Mistletoe Farm was a good one. City cousins coming to live with the country cousins!! 🙂
St Clares was ‘ok’ but Mallory def. the pick of the school bunch!
I am just finishing off some other books then will get to my recently sent ones! 🙂