Thursday, 06-07-23

 Morning, everyone.  It's lovely and sunny this morning after some rain over that last few days.  The garden looks really happy right now, breathing in the cool morning vibes.  Me too, in fact.  Lovely!

I have a little correction to make to yesterday's blog.  When I read it through, it wasn't fair on Lindsey to imply that the reason why I didn't do Groove on Tuesday was because of Monday's circuits - I was achey, yes, but the main reason is something I feel very silly about and that was that I went to the loo in the middle of the night, made myself stay as sleepy as possible (because if I wake too much I can't get back to sleep) , sat back on the bed carelessly, found just the edge and fell off onto my bum!!  So I now have a sore sit-upon, as we used to call it.
That's so silly, isn't it?  Feel free to laugh - I did!  And so did Lindsey when I told her!

I need some advice, please.  I found some semi suitable coloured DK yarn and had a go at the sunflower granny squares - the hardest bit was remembering what the USA crochet terms were in English.  Anyway - what do you think look best, rows with one round of background or two?

I haven't got enough of that yarn to make a whole bag, but if I can find complementary colours, I could do a pattern of traditionals interspersed with the sunflower (or sunburst, I believe) squares, assuming they come out the same size. 
It's all about using my diminishing but still too large stash of yarn, after all.

I finished the little tote bag.  I don't know about linings or not - I will look and see what I have upstairs and have a ponder although I think probably I won't, unless I tape-line the handle to make it more substantial.
I like it though.

Matt the Plumber came, gave the boiler, etc, the annual once over, proclaimed it all good, presented the bill and left again.  So that's that for another year.  At the moment, the only gas I am using is a couple of hours heating up the water early morning and that's enough for the whole day as the dishwasher is cold feed and if the washing machine can heat water using solar power, if needed.  So it won't get much wear and tear until the heating needs to come on.

I enjoyed personal training although I did have to be careful on the exercise bike and Lindsey avoided certain exercises involving the lower spine (like sit ups).  I never got to Beth's because she actually popped out to take the 'lost' posters down when she had a work break and the sun was shining.   They're done now, that's the main thing.

Today, as it's lovely and sunny, Chris and I are getting our fruit picking in first thing, followed by coffee in the Bee Shed.  That will be nice.

That is the only thing in the diary but I want to change my sheets and there's some other washing too - not loads but enough.  
On the kitchen front, I read that gram flour makes an effective ingredient for bread so I want to have a go at making a mixed wholemeal and gram flour loaf (or rolls) as I have some in the cupboard that ought to be used and I am curious as I'm ringing the changes with my bread flours at the moment and really enjoying the results. 
Has anyone made bread using some gram flour?   What did you think?

Well, I had better go.  I have my Facebook stuff to do, hair to wash, and be ready to leave at 8:45.  Have a great day everyone, whatever your plans.  xx