I've just finished making 60 wedding invitations by hand. It took 12 hours. I have hands covered in glue, I can't look a bead in the eye ever again, and tweezers are just not welcome in my house any more. Card, fabric swatches, ickle bits of ribbon and fiddly things are just not funny any more. My back is aching and my bum feels like I have been slapped with a nail-studded plank for a day. Ouch. I left a sarky message on my friend's answering machine after 30 of the invites - call herself a friend, she said "oh make your invites, it's so much easier and cheaper". Erm... thanks, Rachel!! (only kidding!)
At last they're all done, addressed, and ready to go. David did a sterling job doing all the printing stuff (he wouldn't touch the fiddly bits with a bargepole/gluestick) - he has retired to bed as I put the finishing touches to the remaining cards. The fun you have when you're not feeling 100% and stuck at home, eh.
I can't think why David doesn't want to use the same design for the thank-you cards.... I've only just got him to say 'maybe' to the place-cards. ;) Here's me being anal, but shouldn't it all match??
But it has been very satisfying knowing we made them all, and - well, they do look lovely! Lets hope the more distant invites survive their trans-Atlantic/Tasman voyages. And that people like them.
Off to bed now - the cats were banned from the 'construction zone' all day and now aren't talking to me, so I need to give them some restorative cuddles. They might forgive me, or they might just put a paw in my eye, I can't wait!
I woke with my streaming cold to a thick-ish blanket of snow out here on the fringes of London. "Sod it" I thought, and went back to sleep with another paracetamol (I'd kill for Night Nurse right now, but it's verboten in pregnancy). I woke again late-morning, and realised I had an hour to shower, feed the cats, clear the car of snow, eat breakfast, and get to the hospital. Eek.
Well I made it to the hospital despite driving snow, soggy roads, and a street-cleaning vehicle playing silly-buggers by the side of the road. I didn't crash the car, despite paying more attention to the pretty trees laden with snow than the road, I must admit. I even managed to get a parking spot, which is unheard of (it took me 1/2 an hour to park last time I was here). And I was early, so I got out my appointment letter to check how much time I had to go and crash through the trees and take poor-quality photos with my phone.
I was at the wrong bl**dy hospital. My local hospital has a 'deal' with another, not-so-local-and-very-grubby-you-wouldn't-go-there-unless-paid hospital - oooh, 1/2 an hour in the opposite direction. Whoops. And I had no idea how to get there, as both times I've been there I have been too ill to notice. It seems like a daft mistake (and it was), but at the top of all the letters you get, they put the name of the second (grotty) hospital first, as that is the name of the Primary Care Trust; I'd read the letter but assumed it was just the letterhead, and not the name of the hospital, and as I am a patient at hospital A, I didn't think they'd send me all the way to hospital B. OOps. Silly me...
Well I got to my appointment 10 minutes late (having parked in Tesco's carpark as it is a) empty and b) free), and they were running 1/2 an hour late anyway. Appointment went well, took only 5 minutes - and after an hour of driving around in the snow! A bit of an anticlimax really, especially having waited 30 years for this appointment (I kid you not!). It didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know or suspect, but it's good to have it confirmed.
Have celebrated getting safely home with a strong mug of ginger, honey and lemon; wow, I really know how to live it up..
I really need to recoup my brain cells, it isn't just due to the pregnancy I know, I just need more sleep...
I'm back after a long hiatus, mostly caused by technical hitches and then exacerbated by - well, life.
The big news? Can you guess....
Hope to be back blogging regularly from now on, a few tweaks here and there to be done but otherwise am back in the ballgame.
Sadly I lost the database for the old globaljen.com, so will have to create the archives for the last year manually, which will be painful and slow, but I hope to get it done. Likewise with the map, purrblog, australiblog and other stuff. I have all the static html files, it's just a case of cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting, cutting and pasting..... you get the picture.