Autumn's cancelled due to lack of interest!

2020 has been such a weird year I guess somebody forgot to mention to Mother Nature that autumn is supposed to come between summer and winter! But nope, it looks like we're heading straight into winter just for the hell of it! Or at least, that's what it looks like according to the weather forecast for the next two weeks. Rain, rain, and guess what, more rain! That being said, at the moment it isn't raining all day long. For instance I've been able to get out and work in the garden for about an hour each day so it's liveable, but in the evenings it pours down and right now the wind is howling! Oh well, there's nothing we can do about it is there!

Today I decided to take a run out and have a look at a few bathroom supply places, and to be honest I haven't been very impressed. The two I went to are the places that Max deals with with his company and while they're expensive I'm told they are quality suppliers. Hmm, I'm not so sure though! A bit too pricey and not appealing enough for my taste maybe! On the way home I thought I'd take a trip out to a big DIY place here called Leroy Merlin and then I had the inspired idea to maybe take a trip out to IKEA, Geneva, next week and have a wander round. I don't know about you but I really like IKEA. I think they have bright, fun and well-coordinated stuff and while I'm not too keen on their sofas, everything else seems to hit the spot for me, at far lower prices than the places I went to today. There's no rush but if I do find anything I like there, I would have to order it from IKEA, Grenoble (France) as I couldn't get the €€€€€ amount of stuff I would need to order through the border duty-free. Still, if I do go ahead with IKEA Grenoble I'll have them deliver it too! I did that when my husband moved out (he took our bedroom set) so I had them deliver it all and carry it upstairs for me. After that, it was assembly time (I did it all on my own). I was telling my old boss that I probably would have gotten it assembled quicker without the wine but he told me that IKEA and wine go hand in hand just like IKEA and meatballs (he's Danish, so he should know)! Still, I'm in no rush anyway, and once I narrow my selection down I might get Jordan to take a trip out there with me (I'm sure he'll be thrilled)!

In other news I've almost finished the "sunbonnet Sue" baby quilt I started a year ago! I guess it was wishful thinking, but I had wanted to make a baby quilt for ages so I downloaded three pictures off the internet, cut and quilted all the little individual pieces and really had fun doing it. I started sewing the border on it last Monday but wasn't happy with it, so what you see here is just tacked on, but that'll soon get done. I would also like to sew a photo of Jordan and Jen on the back of it, but I haven't got round to it yet!

You can't really see it from the picture but things like the skis, the leaping fish, the cow, the lollipop and the dog are like buttons that I sewed on, and if Jen decides to use it for the baby (rather than just for decoration), those will have to come off, but that will be up to Jen!

On another note, I saw in the newspaper today a story about a young woman (university student no less) who had had a few drinks with her mates when one of them bet her she wouldn't fit her bum in the dryer (as you do)! Yeah, that's what I was thinking too! So apparently she managed to get her legs and hips into the machine, crossed her legs at the knees and got stuck! I mean, who couldn't have seen that coming? So her mates ended up having to call the fire brigade out, and they spent 20 minutes freeing her from the dryer while her supportive mates filmed the whole episode. Now quite a few comments were of the type "she should be ashamed of herself, wasting their time like that" and so on, but the firemen were actually laughing and I got a good giggle out of the video too. Hell, if you don't do stuff like that when you're young, when do you do it? I'm sure it's a story she'll be able to dine out on for a good few years!

This young woman got her head stuck in a drying rack.
I don't think the fire brigade were needed this time though!

Which reminds me (of course it does, I couldn't let this one pass could I)? When I was 16 I went hiking/youth hostelling with my friends in Cornwall. It was a hot summer's night and my friends and I spotted a bunch of other young people sitting round a camp fire on the beach. They invited us to join them and someone offered me a glass of scrumpy which, little did I know, is pretty lethal Cornish cider. After a couple of glasses of that we all started packing our things up when I commented to one of the young lads that I was feeling rather hot. And that was when he pointed out that I was sitting on the embers of the camp fire that they'd just kicked sand over! So no more scrumpy for me then right! But oh to be young and foolish again!