No stitching this week !! None nil nada zip zero ......
We hit daylight savings last Sunday so I spent all week getting up one hour earlier than my already ridiculous getting up time in the mornings. So I slept every evening on the way home.
I attempted to work on CherryTree's Fire Dragon but when you spend nearly an hour and half redoing the same 10 backstitches and still not getting them right - you read the rest of the mornings that week. Will attempt it again next week.
Mon, Wed, Fri nights and Saturday all day I had social commitments and Tuesday and Thursday I did the domestics like wash up, iron and remind the cat who I was and yes I really did belong there !!!
Highlight of the week was visiting Lothario yesterday afternoon.
So nothing done on the BAPs front. I've decided to forgo all further present stitching for the year. I just can't get anything else stitched and finished and posted in time - so no stitching gifts for Xmas guys and girls !!!
Going to spend this coming week getting Hilary's Cats done and that is all my obligation stitching completed for the year then!
PIc today is main street of Gosford. I took this while waiting outside the train station to collect Paul at 5:30pm last night. Isn't it a dirty depressing main street!
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Looks like a main street anywhere in the world. Just as boring as Ilford. We need some exotic in our lives.
Why are you getting up earlier?
Our clocks went back but that doesn't change the time we surface from the pit.
eep.....Water Dragon is so pretty and I bet when you really get going on this one, it'll turn out great!
Good heavens, dear, if you want a dirty main street, just visit New York's Fifth Avenue! It's positively grotty!!
Or someday, I might remember to take a photo of South Main Street driving down the hill into Rochester, NH, where I live. It's particularly frustrating because as you are coming down the hill, you see Rochester spread out before you, with the mountains in the background and church spires pointing to heaven, and it looks like quintessential New England (especially at this time of year) -- then you drive *into* town, and what's the first thing you see? A car wash. Followed by a U-Haul business. And on the left, a parking lot for a super-pharmacy. By this time, you're too shell-shocked to realize that there is a perfect gem of a "common," or town park, that follows the super-pharmacy.
So, chin up -- it's that bad everywhere. ;-)
oh dear... LOL.....Everywhere looks grotty to the people who actually live there. To the rest of us, it looks like normal/real life.
Ilford can look wonderful in photos. You see the park and the lakes and it looks fabulous and then you take a wander into town. Big mistake. lived here off and on my whole life and after living the other side of the water [River Thames], I know this side is the better one even if the grass looks greener elsewhere.
I don't see any hookers or crackheads in your picture, so you're much better off than downtown Atlanta; other than that, and that cars-on-the-wrong-side thang, much like any other town of any size - at least there isn't a McDonald's in sight. Of course, I'm 40 miles from Atlanta for a reason; we just have the local rednecks here (think Deliverance - filmed 25 short miles from my house - yay me!)
And we finally get our hour back tonight - this past week has just killed me, as we normally would've changed back last weekend, and my body knows it. Good thing, too - I've got lots to do tomorrow. I feel a very productive week coming on - hope you have one, as well!
That's dirty wow hate to see clean. Hope the stitching works out for you
Maybe I should put up a photo of the the main street of Bowning, now that is depressing, Gosford looks ok to me!!!!!
Yup - looks like a main street is a main street wherever you go. Funny Karen, I noticed those cars were on the wrong side of the street as well - thought it was some trick photography LOL. Our clocks go back an hour this weekend so we gain an hour. Poor Mel is losing an hour by springing ahead. I don't handle that time change well at all. Looking forward to seeing your progress pics soon! Cheers
Downtown Atlanta is scary especially at night and even during daylight. We tried to find Margaret Mitchell's house [GWTW] and did we ever get lost downtown, horrible. Course, by the time we found the house, it was closed for renovations for a year or so.
Driving out of Atlanta was the best thing about it.
We did that *last* weekend - quite a large part of the reason why I go no stitching done at all last week - I didn't handle having to get up that extra hour earlier .....
Paul said to tell you that the photo was taken at the wrong time of day - the soup kitchens would have just opened at that time .....
Heh - I have to admit, I had to take a second look to see that the road markings and the cars driving down the road were "backwards" to realize that you weren't somewhere closer to me, Mel! I actually live in a *very* small town, so it doesn't look quite like this, but there are several places right near me where this could be!
Now listen here ladies, those cars are all on the CORRECT side of the road going in the right direction! hehehehe
We're less than an hour's drive from the largest city in Australia - but it is such a small-town environment here !!!
And yes they are actually driving on the correct side of the road :) :) We'd have more accidents if they drove any other way :) :)
hehehe - which confirms the general sentiment that I heard when I was in the UK "Just don't let the Yank drive!"
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