Memorandum Monday making an old lady smile

A big wave to Sian fellow Monday wavers on this extra day of the year.

Plenty of time on my crochet projects again this weekend - having ordered some yarn for a new project I decided that I should finish some of my current projects before starting a new one. Or at least get them to a sensible pause point.  I sewed in lots of ends on my big project and it is now in a box waiting for my sister to finish her half.  More sewing in ends and sewing parts together to create clusters of forget-me-nots for Miriam's Dementia Awareness project she posted about here.

This was the project that I featured for my 6 words story 10 days ago.

What about the smiling lady I mentioned in the title?  Crochet again - at my new knitting and crochet group.  We meet in a lovely cafe which is popular with students (LoveCrumbs for those who know Edinburgh).  10 of us sit around a large round table with piles of yarn in between our cups and empty plates (I must take a photo!). 

We were chatting and making when a lady came up to us and said 'you have made my mother very happy'.  This lady and her mother were in town to visit their daughter / grand daughter who is a student in Edinburgh.  The grandmother lives in Canada but grew up in Iran.  She was delighted to see people knitting and crocheting and loved that there was a mix of ages making things together.  She said that when she was young, in Iran, she saw the ladies sitting together making things but never sees it now.  Her daughter said that she had been smiling since she sat down and noticed our group and that this was her favourite sight in Edinburgh and she posed for a photo with us.  Our 2nd tourist photo in 3 weeks !

Hoping you all have a great week and welcome to March and spring.

6 words BREAK

joining Miriam in her Friday photo and 6 words story

snap finds the lost

Since missing a set of 4 lost gloves a few weeks ago I've been diligently snapping any lost clothes items that I come across and remembered that I had a good one in my archive too (the high heel spotted on a Saturday morning walk a few years ago)

I like that they all seem to have been put into a place of greater safety than the ground and hope that each owner came back and found their items.

Loving what you are all sharing as visually themed sets each week - thank you

Memorandum Monday searching lessons

Good morning blogland and a big wave to everyone on a sunny Monday

This week I saw my nephew's cat for the first time - she is visiting with my parents as he is working away from home.  But until this week she thought that under the bed was the place to be when there were visitors

Now she stays to play and I learnt that a ball of compressed catnip will keep her amused for ages

This weekend I also learnt that a google search can initially be misleading in the variety it suggests.  I was looking for a crochet pattern for a particular item (I hope it will be my new thing I did next weekend) and the image search had pages of pictures.  But, although I had crochet in the search terms about half of the images were knitted.  Of the crochet ones that linked to a pattern they actually all traced back to only 4 patterns.  But I did find one that will work.

I also learnt that there really is another way to do pretty much everything on the computer.  Windows 10 is playing up on my computer so the start menu and task bar are not working - but I have worked out a way to do everything I want to do for instance using the volume control inside iTunes rather than on the task bar volume control . 

I also learnt that lots of people are having the same problem - always reassuring when I google a problem and it already exists as a common query. (How did I fix a computer problem before I had access to a second computer to google the problem?)  But there is no solution - several work arounds suggested and lots of grumbles at Microsoft to fix it. So I'm coping with work arounds for now.

Wishing you all a good week.