Lockdown Diary - quiet times

I’ve had nothing much to share with folk recently, there’s just not a lot happening in some respects but in others there is.

A visit by the lovely St.Ives artists Sue Dove and Jill Denton got cancelled so I didn’t get to show Sue where I had hung her fabulous textile canvas.

Sue Dove on Instagram

Jill Denton on Instagram

The beautiful roses were a gift from my Auntie Gladys’s sister Pat and her son John, to thank me for all the support and love I had shown Auntie Gladys during her lifetime.

Though the last two years had been hard, I enjoyed her company. She was such fun and so quirky.  Wasn’t she gorgeous in her 20’s.  No wonder she had all the boys after her.

She’s pretty much what’s led me today to sitting in my car, Billy no mates, eating cheese on toast outside Healey Dell Heritage Tearooms in the rain 

I’ve been to the cemetery to add four bags of Cotswold Stone chippings to the family grave.  No not to weigh her down but to make it look nicer as it hasn’t been touched in years. Tomorrow I’m getting two little planters and will add them to it.  Then we are ready for the family to visit and place her ashes there. I’m happy I’ve got somewhere to go and have a chat with her if I want to.  

There’s nothing morbid about this post, it’s all good.  I was even chuckling when I picked her ashes up.  They weigh a ton.  I told her she needed to knock off the chocolate.

And that’s why I’m sat here now, drinking my takeout coffee and eating my lunch. I felt I needed to mark the occasion and wasn’t ready to go home and do normal stuff.

Apart from that all I’ve got to show at the minute are some new books that have arrived.

I’m saving this Mary Portas one for a winter read, when I can switch the lamps on, make myself a nice mug of tea and eat toasted currant teacakes snuggled up on the sofa. Hopefully with the new carpet down.  Don’t you love a bargain, it’s an exlibrary hardback edition and cost me £3 including postage.

There’s a couple of new novels for 2020 and textile artist Anne Kelly’s new book Textile Travels.

Anne Kelly Textiles

Right that’s me done.  I’ve got the spare bedroom to set up for my sister arriving tomorrow for a few days.  It’s okay she’s in our bubble.  We are just hoping the restaurant stays open so that we can give Auntie Gladys a good send off and celebrate our Jill’s birthday at the same time.

Take care everyone 

See you soon

Lynn

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