It has been a while since my last post! I suppose this is the time of the year when I slowly start getting more active with my knitting and crafts.
The school holidays gave me some time to do craft projects with the children, and brought me back to it. I tidied up the 'craft' room (the unused dining-room), and finished a couple of things. Among them, there is Emilia's doll. I will have to wait till she comes back from granny's house to take a picture of it and post it.
I am also starting to get into amigurumi. They are very cute little creatures that the children (and I) love. I will be posting pictures of my first steps into them soon.
The spring/summer put the yarn away and brought the gardening. It has been a brilliant summer so far. As I always say, if summers were this good, Britain would be a different country. However: I was watching a BBC documentary about camping in Britain, and someone made a very interesting point:
'Complaining about the rain when you are camping is like complaining about the traffic when you are driving in central London. It's gonna happen, it's a fact of life. You'vew got to be hearty about these things, you've got to face all the things that are not going to be perfect, and you are gonna have to improvise your way through...and that are ones of the great benefits of camping...But if it rains a lot even I wouldn't say you are having a good time, 7 days and 7 nights of rain can strip a mind of reason..'
This is what I rescue about living in a place like this one. I still have a hard time going out when the weather is not perfect. However, most British people do! Rain is not a deterrent. They are going to have a good time, come rain or shine. That is quite an admirable trait of character, I think. Of course, we all have our limits :)
Going back to the lovely summer, I thought I will post some of the results of my gardening. We had a busy time at the allotment, and got our first harvest. The garden at home is looking great too.
The Iris I planted 2 years ago finally flowered at the end of May. We enjoyed the flowers for a couple of weeks, as they kept coming.
We have hundreds of bees. We think the harsh winter killed quite a lot of them, as they took a good while to appear in reasonable numbers. Fortunately now they are back! This is one of the first ones to visit us this year:
I also designed the flower baskets. They are looking great. This picture was taken at the beginning of July, a month ago. Now they are even bigger, they will touch the floor very soon...
And finally, a picture of my boggy shady flowerbed. I am so proud of having finally found the way to make it look good. This is the 3rd year of trying, and I think I finally got it!
One last picture, for your enjoyment: a little fairy I found fluttering in the garden...
