Sewing away

I should warn you I may be absent from my blog site for a few days. As you know we're going to a wedding next week. As soon as we knew about the wedding (the news was waiting for us when we came back from Italy early last month), we put in an order for their wedding present. We've decided to give them a counted cross stitch picture that we hope will amuse them. We thought I should just about have time to get it sewn before the wedding. However, with the postal strikes, the kit didn't arrive until Saturday. Since then, whenever the light is reasonable, I've been desperately trying to get it done. I'm hoping, come next week, we'll at least be able to tell them, it's with the framer & will soon be theirs. But first I must get it sewn. So don't worry if you don't hear from me. I'm just sewing away.

It's difficult thinking of presents for older friends when they decide to get married. When you first set up home as young people, you need just about everything. We've all be scratching our heads when it comes to a couple in their mid-seventies who've already got plenty of clutter collected over the years without adding extra.

We keep hearing about what others are thinking of getting. Ours won't be the only late arrival. A month's notice doesn't give you much time to sort much. Still it sounds as though they're getting a specially made, cut-glass rose bowl (PD's brother-in-law makes them professionally), meal vouchers for the local restaurants & hostelries, our picture, food for the hen/stag night, to name but a few. Meanwhile the number of guests keeps growing. Invites keep coming out every day. At last hearing there were 86 guests & still growing. The golf club, where the reception is to be held, will be heaving. The feelings of warmth & goodwill to the bride & groom should be palpable.

It's good to have something joyous to think about.