Sweetpeas, hollyhocks, salvia, larkspur, lupins and assorted nameless wildflowers are all sprouting like crazy in the flower pots and recycled yoghurt pots on my windowsills. I'd love to have an elegant, stylish flat but the truth is the windowsills are covered in seedlings at various stages of growth, I've got yards and yards of material in my fabric stash waiting to be cut & sewn into patchwork quilts lying around the sitting room, there are bags of knitting wool, baskets of embroidery silks, beads, felt squares ... It'll never be neat and tidy. There's just too much 'stuff'.
Well, there are better things to do than tidy it all up. I'm reading Amitav Ghosh's 'Sea of Poppies' which I haven't got very far with, but promises to be extremely good. On the crafty front, this a new needlepoint pattern I'm working on, and which I'll blog about properly in the next day or so.
I was stitching it yesterday evening while watching 'State of Play'. Not the new Hollywood film version, but the original BBC drama by Paul Abbott, picked up in Fopp for a fiver. A really good political thriller, fast paced, genuinely intriguing. Much better than anything on the telly at the moment.
And no, I will not be going anywhere near 'Big Brother'. I don't know anyone who watches that tired old format any more. Dreary, shouty wannabes. Yawn, yawn.
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