Muddy Suds!

 Time is getting away from me and I'm forgetting to keep notes here.

I finally got to Slimming World on Monday and had lost another 3lbs (probably from feeling so ghastly with biliary colic if I'm honest!) and gained my 2 stone award, so very happy with that.

I didn't get to Craft Day at Guild because the weather was, for one day only, fine. We aimed to have a really good go at clearing the polytunnel site, but in actual fact it defeated us, and we just decided we will need to get help with it. I did prune some fruit bushes better late than never (I hope!) but it's still very swampy down there.

I made two cottage pies for a family from church who've had some bad news, and Neil was due to pop them round there on Wednesday, but couldn't get in touch with them so they've had to go in the freezer.

I finally got round to making my laundry detergent (a hybrid between Rhonda's version from Down To Earth and Nancy Birtwhistle's from her new book, Clean Magic) and you have to laugh. I had ordered the soapflakes online (I keep telling myself I must stop this and buy everything locally but I'm not sure where I'd get them. Note to self - do some research!) and when I took the pack out to start on the laundry liquid it said Savon de Marseilles 'olive'.  Sure enough, the soap flakes were a very attractive olive green!

Once mixed, my lovely laundry detergent came out a sort of sludge colour with overtones one would rather not discuss! I'm sure it will work just as well though.

Do you have good local sources for all your green/frugal/homemade products, or do you cave and order on Amazon?

Confined to Barracks

 We've now got all three lambs on the ground from the early lambing group, two ewe lambs and a ram lamb. All were straightforward, nobody needed any help. All nice lambs.

I'm on the second day without a car, because it was booked in for a service and the mechanic accidentally ordered in the wrong parts. I've not been too well so I'm not complaining too much about a couple of  'at home' days.

I sowed another bunch of seeds yesterday in the propagator, but if I'm not careful I'll have my usual problem of a greenhouse full of seedlings and no ground to plant them out into, I really am going to have to grit my teeth and get down there to try to clear up some ground, not least the polytunnel.

I finally finished my first real quilting project - a table runner - and immediately I looked at it finished, it was obvious to me I'd placed the squares really badly, with a recurring 'two dark bits joined together' problem - how on earth did I not see that when I pinned the blocks together?!

Of course now I can see exactly what I should have done, but it's a bit late!

I'm trying to get another skein of wool spun and plyed so that I can finally get on and dye it. Craft day is this Saturday at Guild and I was hoping to have it done by then, but I'm not optimistic.

I didn't get to Slimming World on Monday (see car saga) and once again, my payment has gone out for the Health Club without my darkening the doors for yet another month, so the Spinning, Slimming and Swimming situation is in a pretty poor way.