Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon elbow deep in mashed potato. I made a cottage pie, a mountain potato farls, and have leftover mash to make into a potato & broccoli tart today, when I will also be teaching the girls how to make pastry.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a picture of some jeans which had been butchered at the knee, below which had been replaced with ruffled bedsheet fabric. I don't wear or own a pair of trousers, but the effect of this was so fantastic that I am intending to make a pair for myself, likely once the girls are back in school now. In a charity shop last week though, I came by the bedsheet for £1. Now I just need some jeans..
I was also able to pick up a massive white duvet cover, and have tested my sewing machine, which in my memory was misbehaving but seems to have sorted out its attitude now, so I'm intending to get to work on the costumes today, hopefully giving myself plenty of time for hiccups before the weekend.
I had a nice chat yesterday with the bedsheet-trouser friend, who like me has been working part time due to financial pressures. Her husband has just been offered a new job, and so she now has the option to stop working, which it sounds like she will go ahead with. It was such a relief to talk to someone about this who is on the same page as me as after reading a couple of internet things last week I was starting to doubt my position and was wondering if I was just lazy.
My cold rumbles on and honestly I'm miserable with it, it's been weeks now. I'm waiting on a second round of bloods to determine if there is anything else going on. I'm keeping busy though. Today we have a bunch of tidying to do, then I said the girls could do some watercolour painting, and then we'll do some baking later. Somewhere in there I am also going to begin working on the costumes.
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