My lady has the sewing mojo back. Whenever she is absorbed by some project, she forgets the concept of time, such is retirement and not having to wake up until you are ready. Her current project is to make an outfit like the one that actress Alison Doody wore in the Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade:
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My wife intends to replace the two diagonal stripe patches. She showed me a number of options that she has in mind. As yet she hasn't made up her mind, but the embroidered motif that she sketched, does rather appeal.
Going back to the concept of time. At two am this morning, I was up with an achingly full bladder, as I came out of the bathroom I heard my lady coming in from where she had been, in her cabin. We smiled, kissed, I went back to bed and the lady went off to scrub up and clean her teeth.
Two am was a regular occurrence before her heart problem, this is the first time, since surgery, that I have known her to be so absorbed that it was well into the night before she called time. It gives me hope, albeit tentatively.
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this thread, you will see some of the reaction to this blazer. Here's a snippet:
I booked a table for next Sunday, the fellow taking the booking quipped: "If I had known that you were going to turn up dressed like that I would have set you up a table in the kitchen, that being the only space left. We laughed and shook hands. On the way out a couple of ladies, from a group of friends, admired the blazer, one saying, "that's how real gentlemen once dressed."
Another comment on that thread, that I have posted a link to, is the sale of a van that I had hoped might be converted into a camper van. The fellow who as bought it off me plans to do much the same. He is the garage proprietor who looks after all our vehicles, including the MG. We are off to Lincoln next Saturday, he and I. The van is booked into a company that specialise in such conversions.
He's asked me to drive the van there whilst he will follow in his car and then we shall return together in the car. He can drive whilst I can take a nap.
Life is getting busier, I seem to be at work more often, it's a testament to my wife's surgeon that I feel confident about my lady's continued recovery that I can leave her for a number of hours. She has promised me not to overdo the exertion and I trust her not to. We shall be putting more effort into the house sale preparations, especially chasing contractors who are notoriously fickle. I can understand and accept, that inclement weather can delay appointed dates but why can't they ever, just call and explain the said delay?
It's so frustrating!
