Ephemeral

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It’s just over two months since I began working on my 38 things to do while I’m thirty-eight and it’s all going very well indeed. Already completed are:

4. Holiday in Sardinia

5. Go to Woolfest

6. Enter craft and baking categories at the county show

9. Eat something I’ve never eaten before

11. Spa day with F.

14. Go to see the Strictly Dance To The Music Tour

16. Walk along a beach without shoes

17. Make a new quilt

18. Eat pizza in Italy

19. And gelato

23. Swim in the sea

33. Start wearing perfume more regularly

Obviously I included some things in the list which were already in my diary, such as the holiday, but I have also been looking out for opportunities to do some of the other things. Which is why I now have a ticket to see Pointless being recorded next week. Hooray! The novel is due out in the middle of July. I’ve given away one box full of books, though I still have more to go. I’m doing pretty well at keeping flowers in the house. At the moment I have a beautiful bunch of sweet williams in a mix of gorgeous pinks. The flowers in the photo are inspired by someone I saw at Woolfest doing natural weaving. You get a stick with a V in it, wind twine around it to form a warp and then weave all sorts of natural materials into it. She used sheep’s wool as well as plant material, but I’ve just stuck with things I found in the hedgerows here. It won’t last but it’s beautiful and was very fun to make. There are some poppies and roses in the jamjars which had broken off in the wind.

I think I need to start keeping a list of new places. I’m not sure I’m going to get to 38, but we’ll see. I’ve decided that a ‘place’ is a town or village, rather than just a building, and I have to have walked about in it to count, not just driven through. So far I’ve got a rather feeble list of:

Flumini

Tortoli

Arbatax

Nuoro

Bewdley

Cockermouth

St Bees

Suggestions of fun places to visit are very welcome!