Just after I signed up for this blog,our computer decided to need treatment in intensive care! It is now all wrapped up in bandages and limping about on crutches!!!!
It should be getting repaired properly at the weekend and then I can start putting pics and links up.
My artistic mo-jo has also gone and run away. Also all the pics I was using are now on an external hard drive and the printer is banjaxed anyway......
So, for now I have re-discovered my love of cross-stitching and have started doing one that I had planned to sew for my mum. She died suddenly last september and I'm going to stitch it in her memory. I miss her so much. Its the little things that are worst. Like when one of the kids does something funny or new and I think "must tell mum" then realise she's gone. But I know that she's watching over me and she's never far away.
Hi Nellie!
ReplyDeleteI've just found your blog - sort of by chance. I live in Rossendale (Helmshore) and started a blog a couple of weeks ago on ... wait for it ... Frogs!
It's mostly for my own amusement (and to see if I could actually make a blog). I have a big interest in wildlife in general and have some time now to study it.
I can share your feelings on losing your mum. I'm now 54 and my mum died 23 years ago when my kids where little. I still miss her, and Mothering Sunday still hurts. Still, we can't change things so we must look forward. Things will get easier and it sounds like you have plenty to keep you busy!
I've loved crafts over the years: cross stitch, sewing, card making, but now I'm more into photography (especially close-ups) gardening, walking Jack (our 2 year old Smooth Collie),and wildlife (Lancashire Badger Group). A couple of years back I took up Fly-Tying (for fishing). It's mostly men who do it but it's a great craft and skill and women are good at it - it's also quite beautiful.
Well, just though I'd let you know that someone had read your blog! All the best and enjoy every day.
Ttfn Arlene