Off and away ...

... on a big aeroplane. Ooh er! 

See you anon. 

(Sft you'll be so proud of me.)

In the garden

Weeded early (well fairly early) this morning after a healthy, sorry, hearty bacon butty breakfast. It was cooler and I managed to weed half the veggie garden and a little bit of the front where the flowers are. We have these yellow poppies but the one that caught my eye this morning was ...

this lovely pink poppy. It's huge, probably about 8 inches across.

Another pink flower was this peony.

Both those pinks are in my current blanket.

Did you know - you can get 6 different arrangements from 3 colours?

One last flower I particularly like is this black aquilegia which I think is called Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata Black Barlow.

The Poppy Flower Fairy is not in my book but here is the poem for the Red Poppy.

We were all of us scarlet, and counted as
weeds,
When we grew in fields with the corn;
Now, fall from your pepper-pots with the corn;
seeds,
And lovelier things shall be born!

You shall sleep in the soil, and awaken next
year;
Your buds shall burst open; behold!
Soft-tinted and silken, shall petals appear,
And then into Poppies unfold--

Like daintiest ladies, who dance and are gay,
All frilly and pretty to see!
So I shake out the ripe little seeds, and I say:
"Go, sleep, and awaken like me!"

It ain't half hot, mum

It was too hot to go outside today ...

so we stayed indoors in the cooler parts of the house ...

where the sun wasn't streaming in through the windows.

It was cooler ...

in the shade of the ferns.

It ain't half hot but we're not complaining!

I love the voice of Don Estelle.

Good bad, good bad

"Well, things went good, things went bad."

The good - I've sewn in the ends but not cut them off yet!

The bad - I'm going to have to pull back about 10 rows because I've gone wrong. Can you spot the mistake? Of course you can. 

Oh Joy!

Half way there

I really should weave in the ends as I go along.

It's quite relaxing Granny zig-zagging.

Bargains

I couldn't pass up these two small quilts at just £2 each from the Charity Shop. They are for my friend who wanted a quilt for her caravan.

They had to pass quality inspection first.

They had a really nice, wavy edging on them which I shall have to study so I can use it on my next blanket.

Strange poem

I knew the first verse but I didn't know the others.

If All the World Were Paper

"If all the world were paper

And all the sea were ink,

If all the trees were bread and cheese

What would we do for drink?

If all the world were sand O,

Oh then what should we lack O,

if as they say there were no clay

How should we take Tobacco?

If all our vessels ran-a,

If none but had a crack-a,

If Spanish apes ate all the grapes

How should we do for sack-a?

If all the world were men

And men lived all in trenches,

And there were none but we alone,

How should we do for wenches?

If friars had no bald pates

Nor nuns had no dark cloisters,

If all the seas were beans and peas

How should we do for oysters?

If there had been no projects

Nor none that did great wrongs,

If fiddlers shall turn players all

How should we do for songs?

If all things were eternal

And nothing their end bringing,

If this should be, then how should we

Here make an end of singing? 

Anonymous Americas

 Strange poem and does Anonymous Americas means the poet, who we don't know the name of, came from the Americas?