We're all going on a summer holiday (again!) .........

Okay - first off - let me tell you that this retirement lark is not easy!  Firstly you have to find a couple of hours to pamper yourself at the hairdressers.  Then there's the hardship of shopping in Tesco's when the children are back in school and there's actually room to park and peace and quiet in the aisles!  Then there's the lovely sunny weather to contend with.  If you were at work then you would have an excuse to stay inside whereas I was forced to go out, get some vitamin D and mow the lawn before the rain comes next week - in other words retirement is REALLY hard!

But seriously, after coming home from a two week holiday in Devon on Wednesday I now find myself heading off to a planned weekend away with Wendy at "Patchwork Chicks" - a shop over in Barrowford where we will attend an evening talk and a days workshop led by Gail Pan - one of our favourite designers who has come over from Australia especially.  The Santa cushion that I made last week is from one of her patterns and I love the combination of hand sewing and patchwork.  This is a long way round of saying that my afternoon should have been spent getting ready for our adventure - washing, packing and sorting out the sewing equipment that I need to take.  In addition we won't get back until Sunday evening and, on Monday afternoon, the church craft club starts - somehow this evening I need to iron 144 transfers onto the pre-cut calico, finish cutting the wadding and then glue with fabric spray  the calico to the wadding.  So what have I actually done this afternoon, apart from mowing the lawn of course - I coloured in.  Yes, and for this I blame you Cathy, I spent an hour colouring in!! 





















As I said - this retirement lark is far too taxing for me!!