Sunshine and showers again ! 🌦️🌿

 

Wednesday , the Sun came out and shone pretty much all day . Glorious warm sunshine !

I fix up my henry hoover to a very long extension wire and gave the Summerhouse a good clean .

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It was all going so well , that is until I went to move out this huge Aloe ferox .

  I hadn't watered it all through the winter months ,so it was quite light , but very spiky and awkward to carry out . I was also worried incase anything might come crawling or running out of the pot . So I lifted it carefully and quickly lifted it out on to the summerhouse deck trying not to look incase a spider should come out !

  As I passed through the door I heard a loud smashing sound  , I couldn't stop as I was still carrying it out . 

I thought it must be the lovely Chinese plant pot my friend had given me !  😭  

One "Arm" of the spiky Aloe had knocked down the pot as I came out .

I rushed back in ...the lovely Chinese pot was on the floor and when I picked it up I could see it was perfectly fine ...... no cracks or chips .......

....but the table it had fallen through was smashed to pieces ! 

My husband's Great Aunty Winnie's conservatory coffee table .....we're talking 1920's ! 

It was such thick glass too , at least a quarter of an inch thick , I really don't understand how the Chinese pot didn't get broken too ? !

Oh misery ! How I hate picking up smashed glass !  Ugh !

I picked up the worst of it . The table , we'll take it to the tip tomorrow ......sigh ....

 I feel terrible about it ....  😢 ( but so glad the Chinese pot was o.k. phew! )

Husband was o.k. about it . We still have the footstool that went with the bamboo conservatory furniture . The chairs went a long time ago . I recovered the footstool myself . I think Great Aunt Winnie would be happy that we'd kept her furniture for as long as we have  .

Still feeling fed up .  

Then 

The postman came and brought packages !   😃

I'd ordered a cutting of a plant .🌿

It has arrived !  🤩   Look how beautifully it has been packed ! 

And here it is !  Tradescantia pallida "Kartuz Giant "  and perfect !

 This is not the usual purple one that you often see . This one has really big leaves !

I used to have it , but lost it while we were having the new greenhouse built . All my plants were moved all over the place ! 

This was a nice calming job to do  .

Plants are good for you ! Really ! The best kind of therapy is getting your hands into the good earth !

And there she is all potted up with lots of new friends  😃🌿

         Feeling a much better now , I gathered up my sewing things ......

  ........and went and spent the rest of the day sitting in the warmth of the sunshine .....

............doing my embroidery . 

   I have just about come to the end of stitching my Angel . I am just waiting for the right sized piece of drift wood to be washed up on the beach , which she will be tacked on to  .

I'm now working on a "Pocket Oratory " but more on that on my "Cornish Needlework Basket " blog .

Friday  -    

It has turned cold again , icy cold showers , hail . I gathered kindling for the fire .

                Got the fire going .

                 Very gloomy weather again ,

             Made up paper fire twisties  , to start the fire with .

            I need more kindling than this for the next few days ! 

                       Cornish Pisky / Jack O'Lantern 

              Hope you are all o.k. Thinking of you . Peace and Love  🕊️💚🤍

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