Saturday, August 1, 2020

July's end

My co-worker, who forgot her lunch yesterday said she'd rather run naked down Main Street than eat a sardine. I told her I would mention this on my blog - she said as long as you don't give my name

July is over. The air conditioning has been running every day, it's been so August-like all month. The tomatoes are growing larger but are still entirely green. Except that yesterday as I watered the little garden near the house, I thought I spied some red, way at the bottom and behind - one red tomato, on the bottom of a plant and in back, near the house - where the sun doesn't shine! Now how could that thing be first to ripen when it was virtually in the dark? 


It's a year since Mr. Kibble died, and a year since the Orphan arrived.

I have missed sewing, and realized that I could use a blouse or top to go with my blue and white knit skirt. I'm tired of looking online, so I'm intending to make one. I'm going to use an old sheet, and the top section of a dress pattern, and we'll see what happens next - I'm sort of copying something from pinterest.

I keep forgetting to mention that my British Country Living magazine has been coming on time and I realized by ordering direct (instead of through Amazon) I am saving about twenty five dollars a year!

I've been reading Linnets and Valerians with the Elizabeth Goudge book club on instagram. "The drive was long and bumpy but glorious. The heather and ling were beginning to colour and the gorse smelt like peaches in the hot sun." Does gorse, in the hot sun, smell like peaches? I would like to know that.

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  1. I like sardines! Fresh or tinned, both are good.
    A whole year since the death of Mr Kibble and the Orphan's arrival! I can't keep track of time this year.
    I have always been told that Gorse smells of coconut. I don't have a good sense of smell so I can't tell you if it smells of peaches or coconut!
    Enjoy your sewing!

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    1. Oh, Clare - and I was counting on you! :D There is a world of difference between a coconut fragrance, and that of a peach!

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    2. There is! There's plenty of Gorse on the heathland near the coast, but we're not travelling far at present so I can't have a sniff, or get anyone else to, just yet.

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  2. I love this post and read the first passage out loud to my daughter and she said "Well fair...sardines" I think she sympathizes with your coworker ..I'm rather partial to sardines myself. I have asked an old school fellow who lives in Scotland about the scent of gorse ..I await his reply!

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    1. got the reply "I have spoken to my resident floral designer Pamela and she says gorse definitely smells of coconut..similar to the cocunut sun cream. She has a better nose than me...hope that helps..."

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    2. Well, thank you, Val! Now gorse has lost its appeal for me..... I'm not keen on the smell of coconut. But I wonder what Eliz. Goudge was thinking of when she wrote this.

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    3. you know she did say in the hot sun..and I did ask someone in Scotland ...so perhaps the Hot Sun aspect doesn't quite apply ? lol ..I must admit I prefer the thought of peaches to coconut!

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  3. For one thing, coconut-everything probably was not so ubiquitous in the world of her day, so maybe peaches were the only thing close "enough" she could name. Scents are mysterious - I remember when the Queen Anne's Lace along my walking path were (in the hot sun) smelling unmistakably like corn tortillas fresh off the griddle. Isn't that odd, for a flower?

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  4. I can't believe its already been a year. Time flies--and not just when we're all having fun, turns out.

    I love using sheets for clothe-making projects. One of my all-time favorite dresses is a sheet I bought for my first double bed. It is sentimental AND pretty. I enjoyed your thimble post photos, too. Happy sewing!

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    1. There's certainly a lot of fabric in a sheet, which makes it so economical, not to mention the patterns you might not find in regular fabric. I'm almost done with the blouse!

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