Though there were two days when I very nearly didn’t – and ended up posting far too close to midnight… It’s been an interesting discipline. Definitely not one I could keep up forever, but I’m feeling rather smug to have completed the challenge.
Busy weekend ahead – looking forward to making a start on Christmas – and candlelight concert tomorrow evening in the Pavilion – always a pretty treat.
A bientôt?
In not very original ways
Walking by the sea and over the downs, travel (pictures from Vienna, Paris, Sussex and Scotland), reading by the fire (currently a book in French called Boussole – much more exotic travelling East than I have ever managed!), visiting National Trust places and pretty churches and – these days – sorting out china from the attic spaces. For many years I collected art deco and 1930s hand painted china. I still love it – but it raises the same issues as the old photographs – what is the point of stashing it away in the roof? I’m happy to use it exclusively and ditch the modern stuff and I’m not too precious about it getting smashed – but it can’t go in the dishwasher (comes out plain white!) etc etc. Same problems with the stash of hand embroidered linens I have also picked up – because I couldn’t cope with the fact that nobody loves this domestic art any more – but I am not about to iron it every day!
So, fairly traditional ways of passing the time. Maybe not exciting (apart from the travel) but a satisfying way to fill the (ever diminishing!) time slots between family, Etsy and almost full time work. And there is always the spinning and associated fibre processes which are a little unusual – I count this as half way between work and hobby but it will always remain a passion.
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