🦞 The Lockdown Gang still chatting 🦞

I wasn't allowed jeans!
What did I buy with my Saturday job money???

... they were the sort you wore sitting in the bath of course.

I think my love of (beautiful) fabrics is from my childhood.
How lovely wicked to dress up in your mother's finery!

I remember being in trouble for inviting a friend home when my DM was out and trying on her fur stole and high heels possibly long gloves too.

She had a Dior dress too but we didn't dare try that on.

I was more of a tomboy and preferred jeans and casual clothes but dressing up occasionally was exciting.

I remember my dad's shop selling ladies evening gloves and the beautiful fan of them at Christmas time in the shop window. Lots of different colours in a sort of colour-wheel peacock tail.
The arm and fingers had cardboard inside making the satin flat and shiny and the fingers look like feathers...

In my little girl mind I feel that this was every Christmas - but obviously as an adult I do know it almost certainly wasn't.

What fun to be meeting up Jan and Nfk
😊

Jan DS 2 and family are heading to Norfolk next weekend.
So pleased you’re meeting up with NfK how lovely. Have a great time.

Notspaghetti how interesting. I’m not surprised you haven’t parted with the gloves. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pair of evening gloves in real life. On screen of course. I too love the glamourous era

Have a lovely day NfK and Jan

Hi All. We are having a few days at the Norfolk Broads. Yesterday was glorious wall to wall sunshine but today has started off with the usual cloud and slightly damp feel. We are off to lunch at one of our favourite slightly posh pubs later but before that we are checking out a possible little holiday home for the end of the month. We are in a very old and quirky cottage at the moment the quirky bit being there is a step up or a step down into every room! Well thats ok inless youve had a stroke! Ive got a phobia about steps but all has been fine.
Tomorrow we are meeting up with Nfk for coffee/lunch/alcohol and a lot of chattering at a favourite spot for us all. Fingers crossed for some sun!

Naughtyneine where are you?
Are you OK?

She was a tailor by trade but had danced in her early years (very much against the wishes of her father).
She had a collection of evening gloves and rather ridiculously I couldn't part with them before now as I was quite attracted to the glamour.
It's ridiculous though. I'm not glamorous by any means!
My dad had a clothes shop after the war until he retired. Prior to that he had worked with a furrier and a milliner before settling on window display - so he probably made the collars from odds and ends of fur and then my mum would swap them about on her suits and winter coats to ring the changes.

I have previously disposed of the cut leather obviously rescued from two pairs of very soft long boots which were cut into ladies gloves and all "just" needed sewing.

Gritting my teeth...
I am not sewing gloves!

ixion my singing wouldn’t be fun for anyone 🤣
Yes I’ve been t sit fit today, meeting art friends in Thursday for lunch. Tree is doing well thank you. I’ve been down a few times with a bucket and watered it from the river. It’s laden with little cones. So heavy the branches are bending.
Grammaretto i love exploring ruins too. Hope your new home has a very solid roof.
Notspaghetti what interesting items you have come across. Was your mum a bit of a collector.

Such beautiful photos Grammaretto
Yes. I like my rain outside too!

Glad it happened when we were just sitting there though- as I had seven silk hangings on the side just rolled in tissue paper. I was able to move them out of the rain.

Yes, it's a big square bay window ixion with a matching but smaller square bay above.

It involved me moving lots of --junk- important stuff out of the way to check the bedroom carpet and then floor.
The very important items included a box of fur collars from my mother circa 1950 and a bag of odd evening gloves from the same era!

Maybe now I will be able to part with some of the other stuff discovered there... her dance school tunic and footwear from her youth surely is no use to anyone? Not now I've finally disposed of all her greasepaint!

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That's not nice at all NotSpaghetti. Rain should stay outside in my opinion.
It does like to come in though and has been the bane of my life.

I spent the day going by bus to Jedburgh abbey with my df and exploring it. It's a ruin but a very impressive one.

Some of my ancestors were from Jedburgh but left for Australia and on to NZ in the early 1800s.

Oh, that's grim, NS, so sorry.
A long time to wait when your ceiling is in jeopardy. Is it a bay window or do you have a room above?

How do your DC feel about your prospective new home, Grammaretto? Hoping things are progressing as per plan.

Do your classes start again soon, Doodle?
Art and drawing? Sit Fit?
Would you consider singing (for fun, that is)?
How's DH's tree looking? I hope the continuous heatwaves haven't affected it. 🌳

I have been decluttering my sewing room - again - today, thanks to the almost incessant rain here.
Trimmings, buttons, furbelows - you name it, I inherited it.
Not sure what to do with Mr.I's great aunt's Cash's name tapes et al from her days in the WRENS.

All vintage stuff.

Oh Notspaghetti Im so sorry, that’s not what you need. Hope the damage isn’t too bad.
Quiet day for me today. Not much happening. Did a bit of drawing and painting just trying to keep busy

Oh no...
had a leak last night. Bulging ceiling near the window in our sitting room. Poked it with a craft knife and let it rain in.
😕
Have someone coming to look at the flashing on Wednesday...
Keeping 🤞it's safe 'till then as the wind is blowing from the other direction.

Of course it's our "best" room with a lovely wool carpet and "professional" paintwork. Typical!

Love the tea set Grammaretto how pleasant it sounds sitting there chatting to others (apart from the unruly children)
Lots of lovely history with your home. You’ll miss it but I do so hope your new home makes you happy.

ixion had a lovely time with DS2. After our chat we looked at an old photo album. It was a bit emotional but son said “ didn’t dad have a lovely smile”. True he did.

Thankyou dear Lobstars. I don't usually "do" decoration on pottery as I prefer the effect of the fire and glaze reactions i make a terrible mess

It's pouring down here now so I bet there won't be so many visitors to my pottery and jumble sale.

A woman who came yesterday bought my ancient butter churn -the small glass kind with paddle. She thought her forest school children would have great fun making butter.
She's the girlfriend of my hairdresser and said he's never told her I was a potter. What do they talk about 😄😂🤣

To be fair he didn't tell me she was a forest school teacher. Her son is keen on history and metal detecting . Several people asked me about my collection of curling stones and old bricks!
I think I will leave them with the house, as they were found near here. The 19th century owner, paper mill owner, had a curling pond where DS and DH found the stones in the boggy remains, long ago.
Houses have been built on that land now.

I'm waiting for my friend to come to breakfast. I've made much too much porridge!

What a lovely set Grammaretto
I hope they have years of pleasure from them.

I thought you'd be too exhausted to drop in tonight, Grammaretto, but so pleased it went well.
Hopefully, the rest of the weekend will be as successful- ah, but you don't have a Bank Holiday on Monday, do you?🤔
Good news about your sales! May we see some of the teapots you have left?

I hope your afternoon went well with DS2, Doodle. Quiet contemplation🌻
We were in the middle of our Strength and Balance class when our cloudburst hit.
There were mutterings that we might have to extend the misery session til the rain moved on.

Luckily, 'twas not to be.

That sounds like a lovely day Doodle. Mine was also very nice and sociable. I spent quite a lot of it sitting outside my front door, drinking coffee, eating brownies and strawberries and chatting to visitors to the pottery and book sale.

Apart from a few slightly feral children why would you allow your kids to run into a pottery showroom waving water bottles about and giving eachother piggy backs?

More tomorrow and again next weekend.
A few books and treasures clutter left but it's barely scratched the surface.
I shall have to have clearance people in.

I have sold a surprising amount of pottery, especially teapots. I didn't think they'd be so popular as most people use teabags these days.

Someone had ordered a special blue and white set of cups and plates from me so I had finished that and was able to hand it over.

Went for lunch to a garden centre with friends today. Got marooned there while there was a deluge and even a bit of hail.
Church in the morning then going to hospice in the afternoon with DS2 .
Have a good bank holiday weekend all

Good luck with the open studio weekend Grammaretto. Hope your back isn’t too bad today.
Twee is fine ixion. I’m a great fan of fairy lights.

Gooseberries 🤔 because the give you goosebumps if they’re a bit tart ?

I think you will need a potager, Grammaretto. Do you have a friend with a pneumatic drill?
And a greenhouse - is there one? If space is an issue, you could have one of those 'lean-to' types against your garage wall.
#fullofgoodideas.
I shall 🤐🤐 henceforth.

I took a photo of my successful twinkly lights.
Not posting as they look, er, twee by night.