Well it seems blogger has changed its interface !! Guess it will take me ages to sort it out now !!

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Just wondered what happened to the  text background on the last post ????   Can't seem to change it !!

An addition to our family ....

No, not another baby, but a little pup ... it is such a long time , almost 6 years now, since we lost our last dog and she was 13 years old ...  we have had dogs all our married lives (46 years and counting !) .. so it is a long time since we had a puppy ....  we had talked about it for some time as I said last time that there would be no more ... neither of us can walk far and it wouldn't be fair ...  however after a while you really miss a dog around the house. We looked for some time and decided we would have another staffie as these are lovely dogs and we had them the last few times ...  not the dangerous dogs some folks would have you believe and very good with children which is good as we have our Joseph who is seven and he will love her ... after looking at two or three, which just weren't right for us, we decided on a seven week old brindle bitch pup ... well not quite 7 weeks ! .... she is a little sweetie and we have named her Lucy with Joseph's help !

Summer update

Well we haven't really had a summer here in the UK this year and now we are going into Autumn !
Still having probs with with shoulder/arm, but have had a couple of x-rays, a CT scan and an ultra sound and will get final results next Monday .....  but I have managed to do a little bit more stitching on one of my Chatelaine designs - Herbularius .... and in the next week I will start putting some of the beads in ...

Herbularius update

Well as I write this, the rain seems to have left us for a few days and we have had some nice sunshine ... still not hot enough for summer however ..........
Today it is sunny but blowing a gale and I just hope I can keep all the baby apples on the two small trees...
Still having probs with my shoulder/arm but saw a specialist at the small private hospital near us - as an NHS patient - and he arranged a CT scan the same week ... had that last Thursday and now have to wait three weeks for the appointment back with the specialist to see what the problem/problems are ... so still having to limit the typing time as well as the stitching time ...

But this is the update on Herbularius .... coming along nicely albeit slower than I wanted...

This is the top section and once it is complete I will add the beads and put it onto a roller frame and onto my Lowery stand making it easier on my shoulder, and then work my way down ...