I'm afraid the weaving is an old piece, sorry to disappoint!
I was going to frame it but couldn't decide if I wanted it white on black or black on white. It's reversible.
I do love having it though.. and now seem to have an appropriate wall space to put it so no excuse... so after the chaos has died down I should probably do that.
It was Jacquard woven when I was studying. It's a very old computer driven loom. This photo is the same loom it was woven on - but the front-on photo is of my friend's work and there's one taken much later of the side of it with someone hand-tying the new warp on. There's one photo of a wider angle too showing a second jacquard loom and the accumulator stand which tensions the yarn begore the shuttle takes it up. In my day this sevond loom was set up as a "sample" loom so you coild weave (say) three design samples at once.
I loved working with the jacquard once you had sorted out the programming as it wove so easily it looked like a printer.
I appreciate your concern and care 
but when Telecom, in an obviously deliberate move to get rid of subscribers like me, decided to charge $200 per unit – and I had two) I lost my phone with its receiver and large press buttons for the legally blind.
I had no choice but to move to mobile even though I can’t see to use it.
A number was necessary however to allow me to dowload audio books, so the hefty monthly fee is not wasted.
I wear a pendant alarm provided by St John, again paid for monthly, which, if I am conscious during an emergency, a fall for instance, I can press.
A live voice speaks from a separate unit and if I answer, asks what the emergency is. This has happened a couple of tmes in the last 10 years but I was able to get up and slowly recover.
If I don’t answer, paramedics are despatched tout de suite and may also call my son if I am hospitalised.
My son uses Messnger to communicate but in fact if there is a real emergency the pendant is better.
If I am not conscious, there s nothing to be done and should this happen on a Friday after my homecae lady had gone, I would be totally helpless until she came back on Monday afternoon (unless Joe texts, gets no answer and assumes I am ill.) This is very unlikely, he will just assume the phone is beside my bed and I am in one of the other rooms.
No point in shouting either, no one would hear me 
Thought I'd just share this weaving, Ixion. It's representing my immediate family. My husband and I and our 5 children
It's one fingerprint of each person, intertwined and woven on a jacquard loom.
Your little birds made me think of it
Yes, my homecare ladies are lovely but order from On High now say "clients are not friends, just do your work and move on" 
I don't want to compromise their position.
Doodle (I think) Can't ring anyone, don't have a phone.
You could use your charcoal for birdies instead, Doodle.
Then you'd only have to coat a finger tip.
(Photo refers!)
As it is summer here, I was sitting with the French windows and doors wide open, knitting and listening to a Jane Austen novel (Sense and Sensibility for the umpteenth time).
I felt something at my big toe and saw a rather large beetle (about an inch square) nibbling it.
It made me laugh - was this the first stage in its grand plan to consume me nibble by nibble?
After this, a moment of pure delight as I played a video of a Scottish military pipe band marching through the streets of Rothesay, taking me back to my girlhood.
I had the shivers from start to finish.
I know bagpipes are not everyones cup of tea but they go right to my heart every time.
Apart from a visit to the podiatrist Monday, I have not left the house, nor had a proper conversation since Christmas Day.
My homecare ladies come of course but they don't want to talk So mainly they come in, say Hello and get on with the work and leave for the next client.
It’s a quiet life.
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