proud little post

I've set up the sewing machine and turned half an old crib/basinette sheet into two nappy wipes. I'll wash and use them before sewing the rest up - not sure if they need to be double thickness as the fabric isn't especially worn.

Then, tadadadada, I started making an apron. I had a small coffee table tablecloth from the Sallies, an exuberant orange and green flower pattern marred only by a large pale yellow stain in the middle. Stains be damned, this apron is for getting dirty anyway. So I sewed two corners over to make room for my arms. I then used an old piece of curtain, also from the Sallies and a remnant of the curtain skirt I made a few months back when I was having a watered down Scarlet O'Hara moment, to make the ties and the head loop. I've done the head loop but will leave the ties for tomorrow.

Today was raining, in case you can't tell.

Dinner

Tonight: leftovers from last night, on toast. With cheese for the others and mayonnaise for me to go on top or underneath and some more of the rather large container of red lentil spread sneaked in. It tastes fine, just slightly depressing to look at the container and think how very many days I/we shall be eating it for.

Still, takeaway expenditure avoided for another night.

In town, for we do live in something a little bigger than a village so have such grand terms as town to bandy about hopefully, I did buy a rather necessary purchase for the garden in the form of a rigger of beer this afternoon. Harrington's Muddy Boot to be precise, which the slugs love. I never thought to plant any beer traps in the punga raised bed, and as a consequence the brocolli plants are stripped bare and the kale much diminished. Naturally, we'll have to drink most of the bottle first. Slugs don't get first pickings.

Next task is to set up the sewing machine which has just been repaired and see if I can sew for a little longer this time before breaking something.