Being in the Wars

Well we’ve had a few weeks of strangeness starting with John and a nosebleed. Not just any nosebleed of course. His has to involve blood vessels well up into the sinus cavity and being on two types of blood thinners. Then there was the no response from 111, 999 having a 4 hour minimum ambulance wait, he’d been bleeding for 1.5 hours by then (I’d been out), a dash down to our nearest minor injuries where the 999 had told us to go then a further scramble down to Poole hospital where they have ear, nose and throat specialists. All this time John is filling up bowls with my nagging him not to swallow or we’d have no control when things wanted to make an appearance again. I just drove up the ambulance ramp dropped him off in the A&E and went and parked the car. Luckily it was Saturday night and the multi story car park had plenty of spaces and I could find a nice cool place to leave it as I had the dogs with us. I made it back to A&E, which was quite busy, and we were quickly directed through to the assessment room with John still heavily bleeding. They couldn’t find any blood pressure and then he went grey. We were whisked through to resus where he tried leaving me again. How very dare he! Two bags of very forced in Ringer’s and a 4 inch Rapid Rhino shoved up his nose and he finally stabilised enough that they could find his blood pressure. Well that’s the simplified version. He’s back home and being fed plenty of red meat and green vegetables to make up for the huge blood loss. He’s not going anywhere just yet!

I have a minor niggle of a knee that is swollen with a lump on the back which could be a Baker’s cyst or just wear and tear. I’m elevating and icing and taking pain relief. Time is the only healer here.

In the meantime I followed a link on Nana Cathy’s blog to a company called Japan Crafts where she had bought a lovely Rice Bag kit. I liked the boro bag kit and bought that for something to keep as a pick up quick thing.

I cut up all the fabrics supplied and laid them out.

I then looked at the Sashiko thread they had supplied. I thought it was too thick for the look I wanted so found some of my own instead. I know I will use the other somewhere though!

Having this as a long term project soon went out of the window. I enjoyed it so much I just kept stitching. I also added some rust red thread and diagonals. Not sure if they are ‘allowed’ but it’s my bag so I can do it my way.

Then, as I want to use it to keep my pub quiz pad and pens in I made a little purse to go in it too.

Recently I treated myself to some new scissors.

If you’ve been here a while you will know I have an embarrassing number of scissors!!!

As I sold a few pieces recently I treated myself. I may even take them out of the box to use them sometimes. *sigh*

Knitting and crochet is still ticking along a little and I have this top going as my new pick up piece. I will of course be adding to the length as I’m not a skinny 20 something.

The Nordic Sampler is up to date now.

As is TWDNKU but the last glass jar has been released today so more to do.

In the garden I needed to stop Gwyn using shortcuts so I used a ball of twine and some hazel sticks I cut from elsewhere to make a fence. I took this photo a few weeks ago and the Iris’s have grown and are flowering much better without puppy trampling them.

Speaking of which….

The little puppy is a 6 month old 18 kg lump now and learning how not to charge around in the heat. But she’s doing well at school and enjoying the agility.

Have a great weekend.