Wednesday 16th October

I had a lovely walk with the local walking group this morning, chatted non-stop.  It is so good to have adult company. I think I have really been missing that the last few years of not working etc...  I've been invited to join a few of them on a walk out of the area tomorrow and we are stopping for both morning tea and lunch, so that sounds like a lovely day out and I am really looking forward to it.

I had my eyes tested today - yeah I remembered to turn up this time!  As I suspected my vision has changed a bit and I do need new glasses.  I keep the same frames as they are ultra light and they don't do any as light as mine anymore, but the cost of the lenses still came to £495!  Which seems really criminal to me.  How do people afford glasses?  I haven't committed to any yet, as loath to pay over that sort of money to be honest.  I had a new pair of glasses made in NZ, a couple of years ago and had real fancy tests done that take all sorts of photos of your eyes, their health, shape and size of eyes, etc, and also these are emailed to you, and it cost a fraction of the price of the lens price today.  If I'd thought I would have had them rechecked when I was over there this year, but there was just too much going on with my illness, then my Dad's and of course his accident.

I picked up a cross stitch embroidery to do.  I used to do a lot of cross stitch when I lived in NZ, but done hardly any here.  It is a small kit, so hopefully it might get me back into it.  I like butterflies, so this particularly caught my eye, when I popped into the CS.

Crafts

Trying to get back into doing my crafts more and spending less time on the computer!  

Yesterday I had to go out to get ONE ball of wool so I could finish a sweater I was making.  I was only a few rows from the end before I ran out - typical!  Did I come home with only one ball of yarn?  Of course I didn't...a few more seemed to make their way up to the counter and into my shopping bag as well.

I was pleased to find the silk/cotton blend balls in the plastic bags for 50p for two balls - definitely a bargain indeed.

With my love of birds I thought I would try this cross stitch, it was only a £1 in the CS.  I used to do a lot of cross stitch when I lived in NZ but it seems to have fallen by the wayside in the UK partly due to the lack of real good light.  Still I am determined to give this a go and if I find I am struggling I will take it with me to do while in NZ.

After the discovery that the diary/planner I had bought for 2014 didn't include Saturdays or Sundays (are we not supposed to have any plans in the weekend?) I had to go and buy another, so took advantage of the Pound Shop.

I also treated myself to not one, but two fountain pens!  They cost rather more than a pound each from WH Smith! One to use at home and the other to take out and away with me.

I have started practising my cello again - hoping I will be more consistent this time.  I have a lesson booked as my teacher is well again fortunately so I am looking forward to that.