Marking Time

Thanks for all messages of goodwill about the house. No news, apart from several enormous forms from our solicitor, which we have just returned. I have been really busy getting WoW done and getting the book off to the designer - it is probably good to be busy.
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Gina - I'm sure that Jane would be happy for you to use the drawing exercise. It is fun and it's great seeing what other people have produced.

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Castaway - no, it wasn't out of date - I got it new from AVG so really can't think why it wouldn't work.

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Glad you liked Highcliffe Amo. I sold two pieces in the end and loads of books, so it was very good.

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While filling in the solicitor's forms and looking at the dates, we suddenly realised that last Friday was our Silver Wedding Anniversary. Now most people would have been planning a 'do' for ages but things like that just seem to pass us by. I phoned the girls and suggested they come over for a quick take-away but Fiona insisted we went over there and she produced a great instant party, complete with selected best friends, and we all had a wonderful time. In the end it was better than anything we could have planned.

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On Saturday night we took GC Lauren and her new guy to see a local outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet. It was really well done and the kids thought it was wonderful. Lauren's new fella is the one that I think is too old for her, but Fiona says 'He's got a job, he can buy her things, he's got a car, he can drive her around. What's not to like?' I have to say that he is a lovely lad, polite but not too shy, and very funny. I hope that he is not bad news for next year's A levels!

In the programme was a plea from the costume mistress for fabrics so that's just the right timing for all my cupboard clearing.

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I love the work of Nikki Parmenter - she makes the most amazing 3D pieces. I'm doing a talk on 'The Third Dimension' for the Festival of Quilts and thought I'd put in this piece of hers. Amazing isn't it?

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She is doing a WoW workshop for me on making the flowers. It will be in December's issue. I wonder where I'll be living then?

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Probably still here!

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Has anyone tried those mi-fi dongle things? It's a device, the size of a small phone that turns you into a wi-fi hotspot (provided you give people the password). It can be used with all devices - laptops iphones etc. My free year of 3g internet comes to an end on my iphone soon so I thought this would be a good solution, supposed to be faster than the usual USB dongle - especially if we move.