Happy Midsummer!

It is hard to believe, that it is Midsummer;
today at last is a lovely day, but June has been a really bad month in our part of the world; 

there were days when we had our heating on, and even last night the temperature was down to 6C. 

Looking at the forecast, may be this is a start of our summer at last!

 I am amazed that anything is flowering in our garden, but the nature can't be stopped and plants adapt.

Several small blocks make up one long block for Awakening quilt.

This was a good exercise in applique points! 

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Awakening - quick update - block 4

Another 2 small heart block join the one shown previously,

and the set of 3 hearts blocks is now joined to the main flower part.

So now I have 4 main blocks finished. I am not actually making them in the right order, but rather which one I feel like making next.

I have gone slightly "of piste" with this one, there should be another angel here, but I prefer a couple of hearts instead. There is lots more angels yet to come !

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FnwF

 It was that time again, to get together at Cheryll's for another FnwF, and I was all set.

Unfortunately in the end I could not join the others, as I had some technical issues with my emails, which needed to be sorted out.

I have been using Windows Live Mail for years, but Microsoft stopped supporting the software last year. I just carried on using it anyway (simply because I was afraid of doing anything else!), but the software just refused to do anything last night, so I realised it was obviously the time to be brave (as I am not technically minded, so you can see my point) and take the plunge.

I decided to download Mailbird, as this one seems to have good reviews. All well and good, I even managed to receive some emails, but I just could not get the setting right to be able to sent out.

Also, Mailbird doesn't synchronise with WLM, so I had re-input all my contacts into Mailbird manually.  A couple of hours and a huge headache later I gave up trying - best to sleep on it 😕 .

Another day and today I found out where I was going wrong last night. Some test emails sent out and all seems to be well now 😀

But I did some crochet yesterday afternoon

and I completed row 5 of the Arabian Nights blanket.

I like how each motif is joined to the rest straightaway, 

which cuts out that lengthy job later on.    

I will come and see what the others were up to later on.

Enjoy your weekend!

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morning's walk

Today was one of those mornings you just want to "dawdle", nice and bright, and pleasantly warm;

we took a longer route to the shops, via the old parts of Shepton.

I was looking at other people's gardens, for a change.

Later, back in my own garden, I made a small Awakening block.

We are expecting bad weather tomorrow, coming from France.......😒

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It's not a nice Monday out there, cooler with showers, although the weekend wasn't bad at all, in fact Saturday was positively a proper summer day.

I spent a lazy afternoon outside, reading and working on the next block of "Awakening", 

flowers are a welcome break from angels 😀

David Austin's climbing rose, the "Crown Princess Margareta", 

last years's addition to our garden, has come out at last.

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