Currently…

Listening: to silence – overlaid, as usual, by tinnitus.

Reading: I’ve just finished ‘The Japanese Lover’ by Isabel Allende. I’ve never read any of her books before, but I shall be reading more.

Watching: looking forward to James Fox on Japan. I was about to write that I have a thing for all the male art historians on TV but then I remembered one I can’t stand. (The women are good too, but not in the same way.)

Making: the ‘Where’s Wally’ socks are making good progress. I’m using a few balls of charity shop 3ply – Emu Scotch and Patons Beehive. No idea how old it is but the balls are labelled in ounces. Despite its age, it seems in good nick – no evidence of moths.

The Year of Stitches pulled thread piece is making progress. You will be looking at it for a long time before you think of hawthorn blossom, but that’s where the idea came from. Or maybe it’s that I just like circles?

These are the latest ICAD pieces. I realise some of them need more work, but I’m resisting the temptation to add it, as I think it’s more of a learning experience if I don’t. When I look back at them I’ll be reminded that I stopped too soon.

Feeling: tired. This is partly the effect of staying up later than I had intended on Thursday night/Friday morning – I find the day after the day after a bad night is always worse than the day after, if that makes any sense. It’s also because I spent the afternoon packing up the glassware we never use, to go to the charity shop next week, and now I’m knackered, as there was rather a lot of it. All part of preparation for down sizing.

Anticipating: getting the non-downsized stuff into one cupboard so we can get rid of two empty ones. Yes, we’ve got that much junk.