Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 29

Open gardens

Had a ripper day yesterday: my dear friend S drove me about during an annual open gardens day, called “Through the Garden Gate”. I will confess up front that I didn’t last past the morning’s viewings; but that was partly because they had provided me with three epiphanies (sort of).

I’ve gone off planting salvias in my empty front bed. There are simply too many people growing salvias; and I have no wish to create a déjà vu feeling. I MUST have a ceanothus ! This plant is about the most attr...

Oh AAAaarghh !

I was turning my knitting over when something – gave. WTF ?! I turned it back to find, to my utter horror, that a magic knot had just magically unknotted – ‘way down the project. What could I do ?!

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As a temporary measure I quickly made an ordinary knot and prevented myself from bursting into tears of rage. It was, of course, my own fault: I must have been careless in making the magic knot so that it wasn’t over on one side and under on the other.

And then ? – what else ?: a huge frogging had...

I am embarrassed

If I had instant access to emojis I would add that one here. Imagine it, OK ?

I have given the small creature the wrong name.

How could I ?!

Well, I did.

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Line drawn under.

Now for the new name !

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Australia’s marsupials are, by and large, extremely appealing animals; and the bettong is definitely amongst ’em.

So my new small friend and companion –

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– who is NOT spoiled already, has, with our entry into Eastern Daylight Saving Time, become Mr B....

So, this-morning, I’m …

… sitting in my recliner chair with my laptop on my lap (strangely), and Someone decides it’s HIS laptop:

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Dunno how long he would’ve sat there, but  I feared what keys were being pressed under his furry little (_|_).  And I was right:

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for although it was easy to shut down all the windows he’d opened and get out of aeroplane mode, I found I could no longer type and had to re-start the PC. Ah, life with A Very Young Cat !    :)

Then he simply got onto my lap (sans laptop) and looked at me. So...

Back to almost normal ! :)

I have four photos for you: the first two taken out at the ever-so-pretty house in which Kaye and Scott live with their … ahh … tribe of animals.

They have three dogs of their own and a cat – a long-haired tortie; and for the last while this number has been augmented by five foster cats: Annie (the only female), Tabby, Scotty, Giorgio and Wobbles.

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You see what I mean !

You should SEE how these moggies are looked after ! If I could believe that all the cat fosterers in the country looked afte...

Moving slowly onwards

Because, you know, I MUST have a cat companion. I can’t exist without one, I now know that.

There was a time, after Chic died, when I thought I could: although I’d attempted to follow his subtle instructions for how to manage without him and had two Russian Blues, one after the other, they were disasters (as I wrote). And after on-selling the second one I was convinced I was OK without.

Then Leanne-up-the-corridor gave me a small ginger kitty and that was that. I’d got to a point where I coul...

A little normalcy would be sensible

So I’m reverting to posting about craft: those disinterested in knitting (or at other times in crochet) may toddle off. Hoo-roo, pro tem …

Here’s where I’m up to with my entry for “We The Makers Design Festival” in what is now my town:

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Samantha-the-designer knitted hers – oh, I believe I’ve already described her original version: hang on a tick … yes, in this post. Briefly, then, I wanted to use a third colour – White Gum Wool calls it “Natural”, and it’s a wonderful faintly creamy white – b...

WWND ?

Yes: what would Nev do ?

As I believe the sun shines from her fundament, I needed to find this out. So, yesterday I took a taxi over there, and found to my delight that there wasn’t a single client+animal combo in sight. I had arrived with my Visa card to pay for the little memorial I’m having made to hold some of Lui’s ashes, and then Chic and he can be side by side.

There was a moment when the two girls who were manning the desk kind of looked at me in polite disbelief. This was when (yet a...

It’s over

I have lost what I’ve loved most in this world since I lost Chic.

Lui’s vet Nev

Here’s an SMS exchange between me and Nev, starting last evening (Saturday !) at around 7:15 pm.

I lied. I MUST ask you: the underneath of Lui’s paw he can’t leave alone and it’s bloody now. He’s fine except for that, but I don’t think he’ll stop. What should I do, please, Nev ?

Hi I’m sorry I just got your message. Can you bandage at all? Or could we get a plastic cone for him but that doesn’t seems fair. 

That came in at ten to 11, but I was out cold by then.

I apologize, Nev. I’m projectin...