Yesterday I had a lot of twinges in my right side, particularly when pushing Small in the swings at the park. I thought that having a quiet day might help.
So obviously I didn’t. Did have a bit of a lie in, but then after that, decided I would go round to the Summer Fayre that we’d baked the cake for. Couldn’t talk Small into joining us, but Big was up for a walk, and so I thought we’d walk on to the beach on the far side of town, then walk around the coast to the bit we know and back again.
So we did.
Apart from the bit about going to the Fayre – the letter I’d had said 10 – 12.30, we got there about five past 12 to find it had actually finished at 12. Probably just as well we didn’t have Small with us at that point, he doesn’t deal with disappointment well. So we just continued on until we found a beach, then turned right and walked around the coast.
There is a part where you can’t follow the front any more as it becomes rather too clifflike, so we had to climb up a lot of steps and walk through some lanes of incredibly grand houses (think we’ve found the posh part!) until we made it back onto the promenade and walked along the front to the parts we recognised. All in all, I think we walked around 3 1/2 to 4 miles, and Big was a bit tired towards the end, but she didn’t complain. It was a lovely walk, looking at different types of buildings and houses – some very old ones, and also all the different plant life along the edge above the coast. I figure it fits into her wish to learn more about the local environment as well 🙂
We got rained on briefly, but not enough to even dampen us, so we rather enjoyed ourselves. And it would have been too much for Small.
Back home we lunched, and then they started with crafts. Small was really happy with some plastic trays and cups which he sellotaped together to make a spiderman boat. Big wanted to make something else, so I handed her Really Cool Felt Crafts
in the hope it would help.
I could not have been more wrong 🙁
First of all, everything in the book is made with a glue gun. Which surprised me rather, I think of felt as a fabric that you sew. I can see that some things would work well glued, but not clothes, surely? She wanted to make dolls clothes, which is fine, and we have felt, but we ground to a halt over the idea of making a pattern first. Which is odd, as I’m sure she’s been around when we’ve done this sort of thing before.
Anyway, after the obligatory loud unhappiness, we gave up on that idea, and I reluctantly dragged them both out to the remnant shop to get patterns and fabric.
Small came back with Simplicity 3787 to make bears and fleece and fusible interfacing (??) although it turns out we’ve forgotten the bit for the ear fronts, paws and soles. Which considering I had one of the girls in the shop helping I find slightly disappointing 🙁
Big came back with Simplicity 4707. Annoyingly she does already have a pattern for a baby doll layette, but it hasn’t been seen since we moved. Like many other things 🙁 And of course there’s a pile of remnant fabric as well.
I feel that we will need to get the sewing maching from Auntie S!
Small was very disappointed that I couldn’t produce him a 30″ teddy bear this evening. Hah! He’s going to be lucky if I can do it in a week! At some stage I may have another try at the batman costume that we bought fabric and pattern for at Melrose some time ago. But at least I know what most of our time is going to be taken up with around everything else that we’ve got planned this week.
Hm, just remembered that L is coming. She’s crafty. I wonder if she sews…
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