Been busy

Rebecca was allowed home for 3 hours on Sunday, the cultures are looking much better and they are trying to arrange daily outpatients for her meds through the IV.
Unfortunately the catalogue of errors has continued, losing blood samples because her name wasn´t written on them and someone had taken off one of the antibiotics she needs for 2 days before it was noticed, which now means she has to start that one again. If baby arrives before the course is finished he will have to be given antibiotics too.  The staff are all encouraging her to make a formal complaint as they say they pass incidents through their systems but it´s not until a patient formally complains that much notice is taken.

I do rather enjoy Kirsties handmade Christmas program, the Crafters have to be admired with their inspiration and creations
I used to make special occasion cakes years ago, but the choice of equipment, edible pigments, glitters, gold/silver leaf etc is so extensive these days and their beautiful designs are awesome.
Who would have thought of making figs from profiteroles and marzipan, and dusting with colour, you couldn´t tell the difference between the real thing.
  

One I thought was fun was a simple large paper shape, i.e. a star, decorated, edges glued and filled with your own paper confetti and a gift, then glued tight

Upon opening everything falls out showering you with the confetti, bit messy but hey its christmas

It reminded me when the kids were young and we had birthday parties with traditional games

At the time I couldn´t afford to keep up with the other Mummy´s who seemed to try to outdo the last party with expensive entertainers etc, one time a little girl (madam) flounsed in demanding to know the theme then sulked when told games, however it didn´t take her long to join in 

Swinging marshmellows, apple bobbing, seek the hidden buttons, pass the parcel (the secret with that one was to place a tiny gift between some of the layers to keep their interest) but their favourite was pricking the balloons that were strung along a line using a stick with a smooth pin at the end. Being smooth it both prolonged the bursting point and was safer, but the end result was being showered with confetti, ok it took a long time but you can see where I was going with this...

I think if I was to do this these days I would use dried flower petals, easier to clean up outside and biodegradable 

I said I have been busy in the garden these past 3 days, its been really nice to enjoy the warm sun and fresh air. The wilderness needs taming before it sets again like concrete. I only went out to pick some springs of Rosemary and got side tracked. I have been concentrating on one area and ignoring the rest that are screaming out, Me next!
This is where I started, you can just see the bench peeping out

So much better, although the poor bench is in need of some TLC

Months ago I started to clear the dry stone wall that was being strangled by a rampant plant but we had to treat it as it was so intertwined it was impossible to remove it. It worked!

Although the soil has dislodged a lot of the stone, another thing on the to do list.

Ivy nightmare, you tug and it fights back

At this stage I had to admit defeat, I enjoy Garden Rescue but I certainly wish I had the young men they have to do the hard work!
take care
xcx