Well, this is going to be a mutual admiration club! For the dressmaker loved the fabrics and she loved the dressmaker! So both of them are reallyreally happy! Ain't that nice? And, of boy, is she lucky or what?
Because, just as she used to have, this woman sets a limit on the amount of people she will work for at a time, this is quite right as you cannot work for everybody because you physically cannot make more than a certain amount of clothes at any one time and she has just squeaked in!
They laughed together over memories of Ascot and other 'busy' periods when dressmakers are known to burn the midnight oil and work their fingers to the bone on red-hot sewing machine and pressing boards!
She took a very pretty piece of fabric with her, all her fabrics, except the silks, are 140cms wide and over, it measured just under four metres, enough for a single breasted, quite loosely fitting cardigan jacket, a dress and a skirt. She'll take some, interline it with a soft wadding, line it in a glorious satin and quilt it to make a clutch bag.
There has already been a lot of interest shown in the fabrics by a few of the dressmakers other clients, she'd sent a tasting pack ahead with just a few swatches, everyone thinks they're great, which they are!
It has been another dreadfully windy day, she is SO glad that we're snug as two bugs in our little flat and no longer living in a big, old house in the depths of the country! For much as she LOVED that life growing up in the back of beyond as a kid, it would not suit her now.
The boon-docks don't have everything that is important in her life and the transport is dire.. she'd have to run a car, and, that, she does not want to have to do!
There'd be No Singing With Dementia in a small village, a library van would come maybe once a week, there wouldn't be any middle eastern food shops for her much beloved freekeh, pomegranate syrup and all the other 'foreign' food that we eat on a weekly basis and certainly NO street market with the equivalent of our darling Karen selling six juicy persimmon for a squiddly-diddley.
It is Maundy Thursday tomorrow.. this is always a very busy food shopping day, so we hope you've got your food list done and your meals planned and that you'll squeeze in one or two of our recipes?
We were originally going to go away for Easter but both the train companies that cover the south and west of England have got their lines up for engineering works.. typical.. and they're all involving buses and diversions and are warning customers that prams and buggies will not be able to be carried on these buses.. OH LORDY..
For there would be me in quite a large travelling cage, herself, plus a small case big enough for a toothbrush (joke) and a change of clothing, she's rescheduled our jaunt to deepest Wiltshire and we will go another week end.
Sad but we'll go to our own church and we'll then be able to eat as many Hot Cross Buns as she can find.. for we both love them and ONLY ever eat them in Easter Week.
Busy again tomorrow, she has stuff to drop off at the shop and then has an appointment in the West End in the mid afternoon.. now we're off to play chase the almond and beak an apple, she has a couple of research books that she has to finish.
So it is fare thee well from us and we hope you didn't fall for any of those April Fool jokes? But we thought the car wrapped up in cling-film was a good one!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 1st, 2015.
Because, just as she used to have, this woman sets a limit on the amount of people she will work for at a time, this is quite right as you cannot work for everybody because you physically cannot make more than a certain amount of clothes at any one time and she has just squeaked in!
They laughed together over memories of Ascot and other 'busy' periods when dressmakers are known to burn the midnight oil and work their fingers to the bone on red-hot sewing machine and pressing boards!
She took a very pretty piece of fabric with her, all her fabrics, except the silks, are 140cms wide and over, it measured just under four metres, enough for a single breasted, quite loosely fitting cardigan jacket, a dress and a skirt. She'll take some, interline it with a soft wadding, line it in a glorious satin and quilt it to make a clutch bag.
There has already been a lot of interest shown in the fabrics by a few of the dressmakers other clients, she'd sent a tasting pack ahead with just a few swatches, everyone thinks they're great, which they are!
It has been another dreadfully windy day, she is SO glad that we're snug as two bugs in our little flat and no longer living in a big, old house in the depths of the country! For much as she LOVED that life growing up in the back of beyond as a kid, it would not suit her now.
The boon-docks don't have everything that is important in her life and the transport is dire.. she'd have to run a car, and, that, she does not want to have to do!
There'd be No Singing With Dementia in a small village, a library van would come maybe once a week, there wouldn't be any middle eastern food shops for her much beloved freekeh, pomegranate syrup and all the other 'foreign' food that we eat on a weekly basis and certainly NO street market with the equivalent of our darling Karen selling six juicy persimmon for a squiddly-diddley.
It is Maundy Thursday tomorrow.. this is always a very busy food shopping day, so we hope you've got your food list done and your meals planned and that you'll squeeze in one or two of our recipes?
We were originally going to go away for Easter but both the train companies that cover the south and west of England have got their lines up for engineering works.. typical.. and they're all involving buses and diversions and are warning customers that prams and buggies will not be able to be carried on these buses.. OH LORDY..
For there would be me in quite a large travelling cage, herself, plus a small case big enough for a toothbrush (joke) and a change of clothing, she's rescheduled our jaunt to deepest Wiltshire and we will go another week end.
Sad but we'll go to our own church and we'll then be able to eat as many Hot Cross Buns as she can find.. for we both love them and ONLY ever eat them in Easter Week.
Busy again tomorrow, she has stuff to drop off at the shop and then has an appointment in the West End in the mid afternoon.. now we're off to play chase the almond and beak an apple, she has a couple of research books that she has to finish.
So it is fare thee well from us and we hope you didn't fall for any of those April Fool jokes? But we thought the car wrapped up in cling-film was a good one!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 1st, 2015.
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