Tuesday

 Good morning.  We've had rain overnight as I found out when I started to go to the shed barefoot.  It's still a bit damp but today's forecast looks quite pleasant.  Excellent.

When I went into my mailbox yesterday morning, there was a message from the shelving company, apologising and asking to see the photos I had taken.  I fired them off and within the hour back came a message letting me know that they were sending replacement shelves out right away.  Two hours after that I got a link to the tracking service thingy and they will be arriving today.  Really great service and I have sung their praises in my feedback.

Dad and I tried another chat but hit the same problem as the first time - he could see me (and himself) but I could only see me.  I could hear him but his box was blank with his name at the bottom.  Really weird and we honestly don't know what the issue is, especially as it was OK over the weekend.  Then his doorbell rang so we shut down and will have another go tomorrow.

Can anyone help?  The camera is obviously working, the audio is fine, he says the video button is not crossed out, what on earth is the problem?

I popped into school to leave some forms that I completed ages ago and then forgot about.  I found them under a stash of paperwork waiting to be filed so, when I got home, I set to and sorted out all my filing followed by sorting out my car file which had stuff going back years and years.  It's still a bit chunky as I like to keep all the service stuff but it is better than it was.

That took quite a while and I was just wondering what to do next when a couple of packages arrived.  A few weeks ago I looked for some Christmas Cross Stitch kits and ordered three, one not being Christmas related.  Two of them had arrived so that was the end of the clearing out.  I spent the rest of my free time starting one of them and enjoying myself very much.  I've always enjoyed counted cross stitch.

This is the one I've started.  Apart from the fact that I love owly things and I love Christmas so this is combining two separate loves, I thought each individual owl would make a nice Christmas card for next year too.  It's been a long time since I did much of this and it's about time I started again, I think.

This will take some time and probably won't get finished this year!  Not a problem.

Here's the not-Christmas one.  I got it because I just loved it!  No idea where it will go but it will go somewhere and it will be such fun to make up.

I have promised myself that by next Christmas (2021) they will all be finished and framed, always assuming the local framing shop has survived the lockdowns, of course.

Today the diary is blank apart from another attempt at a vid chat with Dad.  We will get there!  There's a bit of housework, some work to get together for my eleven plussers (something the parents have requested) and a cupboard to sort out, not to mention two shelves to put in the right place when they arrive.  Then I will finish putting the garage stuff on the shelves and sort out one specific cupboard before I settle down with my knitting, my Kindle, the Christmas Good Housekeeping that I treated myself to the other day and whatever is on the telly.

It sounds like a very cosy day, doesn't it?  Fingers crossed that it all pans out.  Also fingers crossed that your day is just as pleasant, if not more so.

Take care, be safe and have a happy day.  xx