Good evening 🙂
Kaimoana your description of your helper or uselesser made me smile because it brought back memories of when DS asked to do chores to earn extra money. My heart used to sink because anything practical had to be done again or mended afterwards because he just functions differently. Nine times out of ten I found him reading a book after five minutes!
Have you thought of wearing a straight jacket Doodle? It would certainly stop any arm movements.... 🙂 your first shower is going to the best of your life!.
Spud is back on form now and giggling - which we all love. Don't they bounce back quickly. Mr M is bored with limping and using a stick doing well but not quite so good at bouncing!
I'm working on someone's DNA tonight to help them to discover more about their unknown father. It's a new part of Ireland tonight but I've already bumped into family names I know from previous jobs - including my own family. It's a small world indeed.
Not looking forward to the storm - we were without power for nine days in 1987. I hope that won't happen again! And now back to digging around in olden days in the Emerald Isle.
Dear little Keira, I'm glad she sticks close to you, she clearly needs the constant reassurance of a loving companion.
Doodle Step into a duvet cover and ask DH to pull it up and tie it at your neck. That's all the dressing up you need until you can use your arm 
'Iron robin' ???
Your dresser was a bargain Grammaretto at least by NZ standards. Make sure you treat it for woodworm. 
Although it's no part of Waipareira's remit to collect groceries, they kindly did so for me the following day.
Not only was this a huge and worrisome load off my mind but it saved me a £16.50 cancellation fine as well.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the home support agency also found a replacement for Karen, very late in the day. A young man who stood on my doorstep bent almost double and holding his stomach. 
As he hobbled past me, moaning pitifully with every step, he gasped, 'I'm sorry I’m late but I’m bleeding from the bowel.'
I had visions of his innards spilling onto my carpet as if he was midway through being hanged, drawn and quartered.
In fact (he said) it was a substandard suture which had burst. Last week he had an op for an obstruction and on Friday another for haemorrhoids. So collecting my groceries was out of the question; he couldn’t possibly drive such a distance (8km)– too painful. And who am I to argue?
Nevertheless, with many groans and gasps he managed to stay upright whilst preparing potato, onion, courgette, cauliflower and 2 pears.
I asked why he was working when so ill, he said if he didn’t he had no money so couldn’t eat. I refrained from explaining the Welfare State system.
He did manage to take me just up the road to deliver shortbread to an old friend newly out of hospital.
En route he remembered he hadn’t taken his medication so began driving with his wrists (in heavy traffic) whilst trying to shake pills into the opposite hand which held a bottle of water.
By now I had accepted that he Universe had it in for me (and him apparently).
He was supposed to do 3 hours but managed only one, asked God to bless me and went off to see his GP.
When I returned to the kitchen I saw he had mixed up all the vegetables and fruit in one pot.
I spent quite a while trying to sort by feel, the onion from pear and tiny cauli florets from slices of courgette.
I felt like Cinderella sorting the peas from ash – only there was no handsome Prince waiting for me when I'd finished.
[grin[
Reviews coming in for Trevor are all very good which is heartening.
I hope you and Keira have fun together Nfk even if not on the bouncy castle. 😕
I'm glad your holiday was a success too. What a lot of walking you did! At least it wasn't a heatwave.
.I've not been to Rome in 100 many years
It was perhaps the full moon yesterday that made me buy a huge kitchen dresser. It only cost £20 on Gumtree. It's now installed in my kitchen and getting filled up.
The architect is coming this afternoon with yet another idea for me to consider.
I am also doing a Raku firing because it's dry-ish.
No Gaelic tonight. Half term? I haven't done my homework anyway and dropped into the demolition zone on Duolingo.
I hope your busy day was for good reasons Doodle and that you are recovering well.
Your knitting skills and speed is phenomenal. Kaimoana
What to do about Mr Mamissimo. Perhaps this is what used to be called second childhood. Not that I blame him. I wish I could climb trees or anything infact.
Slippers, bedsocks and also Mouse slippers made from a knit square.
Flexible pattern for slippers: I use 3 and a half sized needles or size 7 and apart from the 7 giving a slightly more loose/stretchy result there doesn't seem to be much difference. 8 ply Acrylic or Polyester, it's about the thickness of uncooked spaghetti. It's in UK Pound shops. One ball make a pair and some left over (which I intend turning into multi coloured winter scarves.)
Cast on 50 stiches (more will give you a higher cuff.)
Measure round your ankle. If it’s 20cm, knit until the cuff measures 10cm - cuff is usually half the circumference. Knit to that, then cast off 10 or 12 stiches, knit to end and cast off same on that row. This forms the top bar of your T shape.
The chart below gives various shoe sizes. Size 7 is just over 9” or 25 cm for instance. Knit to slightly smaller than your shoe size as the slippers need to be fairly snug to stay on.
Cast off, fold in half and sew up.
So they don’t live up to their name, cut a length of anti-slip fabric (pictured) and once the slipper is sewn up attach it. To make this easier, I slip an long oval of cardboard into the slipper. It give you a guideline where the sole is and also stops you sewing the sole to the top of the slipper 
You can use an insole for extra cosiness but make sure it’s well secured.
www.grivetoutdoors.com/pages/shoe-size-chart
www.amazon.co.uk/Multipurpose-Matting-Underlay-Floors-Stopper/dp/B0B5ZZD4TF/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=non+slip+fabric+for+slippers&tag=gransnetforum-21&qid=1698721539&sr=8-5
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