Birthday adventures, Hugo, sewing, CAT!
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ciraarana! SUCH a good choice of birthdate! I hope yours is marvellous! Thank you for your good wishes!
Thank you very much to_inbetween_ for the extremely apt e-cards. Right on every count and you made both of us laugh wildly! Thank you also to nenne and fire_juggler for your gifts, so very kind! And to ecosopher, subtlefire and montjoye for your messages, I was very touched! And thanks, too, to snottygrrl, which comes coloured with guilt because I started to knit you a thingy and it was put down and your birthday sailed by and ... look, my crapitude is hardly news at this point ...
My celebration of birth has been reasonably quiet, as Mr B slept in until early afternoon, so we missed going for a ride or into town (at least I rode to the markets yesterday: fresh peas and marshmallow! And broccoli, eggs, garlic and catnip. Probbaly should have planned better for menus from that lot ...) Instead we saw Hugo, which I loved, but he only liked the comic parts of. A lot of the film is a meditation on the importance of creative endeavour (it's by Martin Scorsese, after all, and yes, there's a wonderful bit on the history of film), so I think that it spoke to me in ways Mr B missed. And it is beautiful, as well as being wonderfully acted and just charming.
For giftage, Rob Ryan plates and book, and tickets to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain in March! HURRAH!
I've been out of the loop for much of the month due to having loads to get done. Still working only as a writer at the moment, which means less money and more brainwork, but it is more enjoyable, I confess. Whichever of my flist said that I was fortunate to be able to make my living this way was right, if only I could type well ... And I've been sewing like a fiend for one of my young friends who is the daughter of friends and who needed a mediaeval outfit for a do she was going to. If I were a sensible person, I would not have handstitched most of it. Alas ... Still, it's done now. As is the surprise Cookie Monster outfit I ran up for another friend after he thoughtfully cut it out. DONE! (Save for hoovering up the monster fluff. NB the cats looked at it and clearly said 'Call that a Cookie Monster? Pah!') Now I can concentrate more on writing and knitting!
Finally, cat update! One part of the sewing process was moving the ironing board into the living room so that I could get through loads of ironing while watching docos on the telly. Every time I turned the iron off, Cookie would appear on the ironing board, usually sitting on whatever I had just de-haired and pressed. I think she is 100% well again. Here's a shot of her the day she came home from the vet, you can just see her little shaved patch under her chin where the hair is asymmetrical:
She's recovered a good deal more since this photo and is now entirely fine, just with her shaved patches still growing out. She's cross that the ironing board has not been left up, but when we pulled out the folding occasional table to put my cake on tonight, she leapt up onto it and declared it a success. We did our cake and candles ritual in the kitchen, there's no point disturbing a comfortable cat!
ciraarana! SUCH a good choice of birthdate! I hope yours is marvellous! Thank you for your good wishes!Thank you very much to
_inbetween_ for the extremely apt e-cards. Right on every count and you made both of us laugh wildly! Thank you also to nenne and fire_juggler for your gifts, so very kind! And to ecosopher, subtlefire and montjoye for your messages, I was very touched! And thanks, too, to snottygrrl, which comes coloured with guilt because I started to knit you a thingy and it was put down and your birthday sailed by and ... look, my crapitude is hardly news at this point ...My celebration of birth has been reasonably quiet, as Mr B slept in until early afternoon, so we missed going for a ride or into town (at least I rode to the markets yesterday: fresh peas and marshmallow! And broccoli, eggs, garlic and catnip. Probbaly should have planned better for menus from that lot ...) Instead we saw Hugo, which I loved, but he only liked the comic parts of. A lot of the film is a meditation on the importance of creative endeavour (it's by Martin Scorsese, after all, and yes, there's a wonderful bit on the history of film), so I think that it spoke to me in ways Mr B missed. And it is beautiful, as well as being wonderfully acted and just charming.
For giftage, Rob Ryan plates and book, and tickets to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain in March! HURRAH!
I've been out of the loop for much of the month due to having loads to get done. Still working only as a writer at the moment, which means less money and more brainwork, but it is more enjoyable, I confess. Whichever of my flist said that I was fortunate to be able to make my living this way was right, if only I could type well ... And I've been sewing like a fiend for one of my young friends who is the daughter of friends and who needed a mediaeval outfit for a do she was going to. If I were a sensible person, I would not have handstitched most of it. Alas ... Still, it's done now. As is the surprise Cookie Monster outfit I ran up for another friend after he thoughtfully cut it out. DONE! (Save for hoovering up the monster fluff. NB the cats looked at it and clearly said 'Call that a Cookie Monster? Pah!') Now I can concentrate more on writing and knitting!
Finally, cat update! One part of the sewing process was moving the ironing board into the living room so that I could get through loads of ironing while watching docos on the telly. Every time I turned the iron off, Cookie would appear on the ironing board, usually sitting on whatever I had just de-haired and pressed. I think she is 100% well again. Here's a shot of her the day she came home from the vet, you can just see her little shaved patch under her chin where the hair is asymmetrical:
She's recovered a good deal more since this photo and is now entirely fine, just with her shaved patches still growing out. She's cross that the ironing board has not been left up, but when we pulled out the folding occasional table to put my cake on tonight, she leapt up onto it and declared it a success. We did our cake and candles ritual in the kitchen, there's no point disturbing a comfortable cat!
