Last week I got some lovely fabrics from my absolutely favourite fabric lady, Maria's Fabrics
I may have, at last solved the drapery issue!
At the start of this week I received delivery of a fabulous work light. The lighting in this room is poor - north facing in the daylight and a poor ceiling light behind me casting shadows over anything I am working on in the evening. This lamp has varying temperatures of light and various levels of brightness and it is well articulated to move in all sorts of directions, even the head swivels.
Tao Tronics dimmable eye protection LED lamp - huge range of prices if you go look for one.
Yesterday and today I received a long awaited order from Delph in two parts.
I left these three tinies on a card table to give a sense of the perfect scale.... hairspray, hand soap, nail polish.
Here is a little something I need to remember each day
Eight of these for the library. I so want to punch little holes in little paper and fasten them in the rings inside.
Two phones - one for the Hive (basement workroom) and one for the library - my student lodger uses her mobile phone of course.
Twelve light switches - that will be fun (not) gluing those in place
Eleven wall sockets to finish off ones I already have here and there; ditto the above sentiment
A touch of Ikea for the apartment - bedroom? or replace the one I made in the sitting room?
Just a thought on this pandemic. I was unpacking eighty (!!!) items of grocery today which had been delivered to me safely by Tesco (I have used the service for years) and was bemoaning the two 'swaps' and three 'not gots'. I suddenly thought about my mother and realised how she would have thought all her Christmases had arrived together if she had been looking at what I had spread out before me. At the beginning of the war in 1939 she was 23 years old with a new baby and her husband away, three years later mom lost her baby when she was just six weeks old. She was bombed out three times losing her home each time. By 1945 she had a new baby to take care of too. During all this time and for even more years after the war she lived with rationing and had to figure out how to keep her family fed.
One adult per week:
- Bacon & Ham 4 oz
- Other meat value of 1 shilling and 2 pence (equivalent to 2 chops)
- Butter 2 oz
- Cheese 2 oz
- Margarine 4 oz
- Cooking fat 4 oz
- Milk 3 pints
- Sugar 8 oz
- Preserves 1 lb every 2 months
- Tea 2 oz
- Eggs 1 fresh egg (plus allowance of dried egg)
- Sweets 12 oz every 4 weeks
I was peeved I didn't have the exact rice I wanted. Really !!!!
We are just asked to stay in our (for most of us) nice comfy homes for a while and have stuff brought to our door, how dare we even whisper a complaint.
Please stay home and save lives.
