Emptying the wardrobe today in order to dismantle it. Clearly I have retained too many clothes in the earlier clearout as I still have three crates full. No way can I fit that much into the van. I shall need to prune again. This will be the third cull. Some things are difficult to part …
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White Rabbits
Without question, the meter is now ticking. Either that or there is a crocodile behind me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlSAEgeTo4 If I am to get to the Show on Friday I really must get through an enormous quantity of work. Despite being busy all day today I seem to have made little forward progress. I have however got …
Hooch, mon
The hard work of clearing the house continues. I look around me and wonder how we are ever going to achieve the task but then I see the spaces appearing and recollect that the furniture now mostly has sold spots marking it. Maybe we shall get there. Yesterday was a busy one with much of …
Tick, tick, tick
Emptying the house is proving to be both hard work and heart-wrenching. I have sold Morgana, my beloved spinning wheel. How I shall miss her. My poor head is spinning with how much work there is left to be done. Especially since Mr L told me that he would like to leave soon after the …
What a drip
Lightning woke me a little after three this morning and the storm continued for about an hour, on and off. This a rare thing here, where we normally suffer one or two strikes and then nothing. This time the lightning was distant. All power remained on and no sockets blew off the wall but I …
So much…
I’m starting a list of what is for selling at my next sale: (subject to update) Schacht Matchless DT Spinning Wheel, Lazy Kate, Bobbins, Transport Wheels Ashford E-spinner, Lazy Kate, Bobbins, Power Supply Ashford 32” 4-shaft table loom, stand and treadles, reeds, stick shuttles, warping loom, raddle Ashford fibre Blending Board Singer Electric Sewing Machine …