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Sewing, and new toys
Jul. 4th, 2013 03:41 pmThe main "new toy" being that this post is the first thing I'm doing on the main PC, which is now on the dining table, with cabled internet access. Two full-size screens are a rather different proposition from the 8-inch on the netbook, so I'll be able to start seriously looking at the holiday photos, among other things. I may have to adjust things a bit - I need to be able to get onto the chair in front of it, and then swivel myself round, so at the moment it's a bit far out from the table. May bring down an office chair, but the problem with a thing on castors is that it's on castors, and that means problems getting myself in and out. Slight back-ache starting up at the moment, and slight pain in the knee from the leg being elevated with no knee support, but we'll work that out.
I'm now better able to carry things around the house, due to aforementioned new toys. One is a "gardening apron" we picked up from Aldi a while back. I have no idea what it has to do with gardening, other than being part of a lot of gardening-related things they were selling one day, but it has great big front pockets that I can fit things like phones, water bottle and small plastic boxes in, and it's purple. The next is a slightly home-made bodge. I took a canvas recycle-friendly shopping bag, and sewed enough tapes and elastic on to attach it to the front of the walking frame. That let's me carry bigger things, as long as they aren't too heavy and don't need to be kept strictly upright. We're going to have to test some plastic boxes to see which are genuinely leak-proof before I try to carry hot meals around the place, but it looks promising.
The other bit of sewing was somewhat overdue - several decades overdue, from the look of it. I think I mentioned in a FB status update that I'd got home to be greeted by large numbers of anxious Bears, many of whom had developed sore lower left paws in sympathy. This included my very first bear, and on inspection, his sore paws weren't just from sympathy.
That's him a few years ago, and he hasn't got any healthier with the passage of time. So, he's had some careful "internal patching" of the yellow parts (plain yellow linen put under the original fabric and sewn in), and a complete set of new pads sewn over the top of the existing ones. No new picture yet, but he's a lot happier, and in less danger of falling apart when hugged.
Now, I wonder what else the big PC will open up to me? Work email...?
I'm now better able to carry things around the house, due to aforementioned new toys. One is a "gardening apron" we picked up from Aldi a while back. I have no idea what it has to do with gardening, other than being part of a lot of gardening-related things they were selling one day, but it has great big front pockets that I can fit things like phones, water bottle and small plastic boxes in, and it's purple. The next is a slightly home-made bodge. I took a canvas recycle-friendly shopping bag, and sewed enough tapes and elastic on to attach it to the front of the walking frame. That let's me carry bigger things, as long as they aren't too heavy and don't need to be kept strictly upright. We're going to have to test some plastic boxes to see which are genuinely leak-proof before I try to carry hot meals around the place, but it looks promising.
The other bit of sewing was somewhat overdue - several decades overdue, from the look of it. I think I mentioned in a FB status update that I'd got home to be greeted by large numbers of anxious Bears, many of whom had developed sore lower left paws in sympathy. This included my very first bear, and on inspection, his sore paws weren't just from sympathy.
That's him a few years ago, and he hasn't got any healthier with the passage of time. So, he's had some careful "internal patching" of the yellow parts (plain yellow linen put under the original fabric and sewn in), and a complete set of new pads sewn over the top of the existing ones. No new picture yet, but he's a lot happier, and in less danger of falling apart when hugged.
Now, I wonder what else the big PC will open up to me? Work email...?