🦞 Locked down no longer but still firm friends 🦞

Grammaretto your brother could do jigsaws without a picture 😮. Wow. I’m still struggling to get the outside bit finished.
Love the jug but really like the blue bowl. Really nice. Glad you are happy with your pieces. *
Kaimoana what a lovely card for Cherry how clever you are.
You were quite right not to let those young men in now matter how nice they were. You must be careful so many confidence tricksters out there. I’m glad these were genuine though and they’ve sorted out the alarms
I bet they appreciated the Trevor book
Nfk glad you’re getting to spend time with your DD. My DS1 is on holiday for 2 weeks and I really miss him.
What a lovely place to scatter the ashes. Sounds calm and peaceful.
Thanks for all the book suggestions. I will work my way through
Dear Cherry hope you had a lovely day and Jeeves arrived in time with cake.
Had a good day till early evening then saw something DH had written to me and fell apart. Fortunately I got over the worst of it before my son phoned so I was able to talk to him ok. Don’t want to spoil his holiday worrying about me

Oh dear. I've just read "One Way Tickets" in Peter Grainger's Willow & Lane series I recommended and it has some very horrid bits in it. So I recind that recommendation.

I hope you had a lovely 😍 birthday 🎂 Cherry with plenty of cake.
And a good night's sleep ofcourse 😴

The boat on the broads to scatter the ashes sounds perfect Nfk. I'm so glad it went well.

I think the jigsaws were quite small Doodle. He was a child who had done them right way up so often, he recognised the shapes. Still, he is a clever clogs!

I feel for you with all the emotions 💔
It's impossible to prepare yourself for them. xxxxx

How nice of you Kaimoana to give your book away.

My upcoming exhibition is all next week but I'll be helping to set up on Thursday. I've invited almost everyone on my WhatsApp contact list. I hope some come but perhaps not everyone all at once.

Your trip on the Broads sounds magical, Nfk, and a wonderful, fitting way to bring closure to a life well lived.

Hope the 🥳s went well for your birthday, Cherry and that you are raring to go for the next year.

Good luck for the Exhibition, Grammaretto. Is it a one-woman show or are you combining with fellow potters? Will your cousin still be with you? I loved the red jug.
I was so sorry to hear that your roof is not fixed. Clearly, no guarantees of satisfactory workmanship can be given for roofs, stacks, all things aerial or so I have been told in the past .Which, I have to say, brings out the cynic in me. Hope you can get it sorted reliably🤞.

Doodle, have you got a op. date yet? Don't forget to tell us, so we can send our xtra-special love. Hope you are finding some days that bit easier - but they are very early days🌻.
Don't forget, the Gang is on standby to come round and do for you.
*All services covered in our own inimitable way* .

In pouring rain, my Sainsbury's food order duly arrived this morning.
I asked the lad delivery man if he could lift a couple of items for me as my shoulder was really aching.
That's the trouble with the rain, isn't it? he added.
^Really plays havoc with your joints^.
😲

Ooh an exhibition Grammaretto. Wish I was nearer, I’d come. Is it in your studio?
I feel bad when I moan about how I’m feeling when your and NFK have been through the same without saying anything much. I must try and hold it in better
ixion I wish you could all come round and keep me company. What a time we’d have and Jeeves would be run off his feet,
I have told the hospital I will be available for the op from 22 July. Just waiting to hear back from them now
My Waitrose man brings my shopping into the kitchen and unloads it on the worktop for me…..I’m waiting to see if one company offers to put it away and cook dinner too🤣
Kaimoana don’t worry it will take me some time to get through all the suggested books. Thank you all for the suggestions

Drat! I've just lost a long post 😩 - I pressed send and it went Snap 😤

I love your latest pottery collection Grammaretto, it must be exciting to have your exhibition coming up. I hope you're going to post some pictures for us.
I can't believe you've had yet another problem with your roof😤. I hope your roofer has sorted out your problems once and for all now 🤞.

I like your little Gonk too Doodle, you're better than you think. How's the jigsaw going, have you found your overarm action yet or are you persevering?
I hope today has been a better day for you 💐.

Nfk, it sounds like you found the perfect spot and conditions to scatter your DH's ashes, I'm pleased it was. A very peaceful way to lay your beloved to rest 💐.

It would be great if you can manage to visit your DS and DDiL in the Philippines NotSpaghetti 30 hour trip though 😬. My niece went there last summer when it was 80f+ 😬 and loved it 🤨 but I'm with you - much better idea to go when it's cooler.

Thanks again for the birthday card Kaimoana, I love the animated butterflies 😍, so clever.
Is there any progress on sorting your home care out? 🤞I hope so.

What a great find ixion, I love the fact that you recreate the Wonder(s) every xmas and have your very own xmas tradition and decoration all in one.
Your shoulder doesn't sound good, what the heck is Graceless Kelly putting you through?

Thanks again everyone for your birthday wishes. I had a lovely day, and have more belated birthday celebrations to come 😁 I didn't, by choice, have any 🎂 😯 - I had my favourite Joe's ice-cream instead 😁 as well as strawberries and cream later in the day, 🐖 moi?, after a wander around the Gower coast.

Your birthday sounds wonderfil Cherry just what you deserve. Makes me smile to think of it
What's Joe's ice cream? My Joe loves Caramel Ripple

DGS wanted to come and stay but I'm not up to overnighters. I miss him though.

PLEASE don't hold in your emotions Doodle dear, that's not what they are for. We've been given emotions because we need to express ourselves.

Although I know what this 💐 is now, for a long time I wondered why there was an icon of a gas mask!

I suspect you may need to be signed up to Facebook to see this.

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What a lovely birthday you had Cherry.

The exhibition celebrates 50years of the Scottish Potters Association so it is lots of us - about 50! I'm only putting in those few pots but delivering lots of other people's work as well. You are most welcome to come!

I'm so depressed today. It's still raining and those buckets are as full as ever. I feel sorry for my DD who is on holiday in the far north although maybe it's better there.
I also spoke to DS3 who didn't seem great. 😔 😟
I even feel sorry for my cousin who didn't expect Scotland to be so cold in Summer.

Some of you will be watching the football ⚽️ tonight. Good luck!

Excuse my ignorance, Grammaretto, but does that mean there are 50-odd kilns a-firing around your area or do you have such things as community kilns? Like the communal ovens my ancestors used to use and the laundries my great great grandmother used to run. I hope your depression has lifted. Thanks to all the recent rain here, our chimney stack is letting in water again (and, yes, it has been 'fixed' (sic) previously). How do I know? It's the returning smell of damp soot pervading the all rooms on that wall. Reminder to self - put the house the market in fine, dry weather. If only ...

I bought a book on knotting, the sort of physical equivalent to the daily Wordle. See it as a vain attempt to keep the little grey cells ticking over.
We have accomplished 6 days, 6 different knots. Days 5 and 6 were reef and granny, so no great challenges as yet.
Today's is 'a simple plant holder'.🤔. DS departed smart-ish and said he would return tomorrow to inspect the 'bottle carrier' when both challenges were completed.
No stamina, these young people🤣

Yes Grammaretto, some of us will be watching well me anyway 🫣 .. and here they go ... Pringles at the ready - much nervous chomping will ensue 🤣 . All welcome to join me 😁.

Cherry the pussle is still on the table not out of the window yet.
I’ve almost done the outside edge. Not spending much time on it at the moment as I’ve been to church and knit and natter today.
So pleased you had a good birthday and a wander round the coast. I love ice cream too.
Kaimoana what a shame your grandson can’t come over. You had such lovely times together. Could he come over with your son for a bit one day?
I love the iron mask icon. 🤣
Gammaretto I’m so sorry about your leaking roof. No wonder that and the weather are getting you down. Hope tomorrow seems brighter.
Wow 50th anniversary. Sounds like a big occasion.where is it being held?
*Ixion I love the idea of you knotting. Bottle holders, I wonder what’s next. Are you watching the footie as well as Cherry?
Make room for me both of you and save me some Pringles. *Actually I’d like some cheese to go with that too and a nice 🍷. I’ll get Jeeves onto it now, 😊

Pussle ……. must be a cat jigsaw 🤣

🤫Whispers
(🍒Can you understand Ali McCoist?🫢)

surprisingly I can just about ixion 😉

Plenty of 🧀 and wine 🍷 Doodle, we'll budge up 😁.

Pringles and a space on the sofa for you, Doodle.
Quick, before Cherry tucks in😉

That's me☹️

ixion 😲. That's no good ... it's only one tub's worth 🤣

Ooh right I’m on my way. I’ll just dust my PomPoms off 🤣

CherryCezzy I've lost at lest six posts in the last few days! I've no idea why. It's very annoying as I'm slow typing them one fingered in the first place.
Mostly I don't do them again.
😕

Woo hoo, They've only gone and got into the final 😄
Celebratory glass of wine 🍷ixion and Doodle?

It's so frustrating isn't it NotSpaghetti. Like you, I don't type quickly either.

🤦‍♀️Crikey.
Save space for Doodle and her pompoms on Sunday. Lucky mascot.!

Doodle you're clearly the Luck for our team

Oh, NotS how frustrating - I wonder why it happens? Because I have Word, I often do a post in that. It saves automatically so when I paste it here, if it's lost I just do it again - hee hee.

When you come to a Weaver's Knot ixion think of me in 1974, worling as a Spinner in a a South Island mill.
It's a knot that never comes undone and I still use when knitting my slippers and scarves.

Aatoa and I went to a family day yesterday. I painted stones for my mokos, sat in gloriously warm sunchines (sorry Grammaretto - we have it) and ate Mexican food, Matariki Star shortbread and had lots of fun.

Very unexpected visit from DS & his wee Boss today.

Coming for lunch, so I am doing the full Roast Pork Dinner, possibly even with Yorkshires and leek sauce. Goes without saying there'll be crumble and custard
I'll send some crackling home for DiL who loves it.

Actually Doodle I asked DS to bring dgs for the day but he's going to a friend's house.

I think we'll have our hands more than full with Gubbins who is, as the Yorkshire phrase goes 'wick'.

British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire: lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick. full of mischief

DS sent me a photo of one of those huge cones which revolve and dip in playgrounds. She's right at the top.

Wish for more for Gramaretto.

I hope the sun shines for you today Grammaretto ☀️