Not the day it should have been.....

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This picture shows the release of 1500 balloons to mark the end of the Grand Opening Event at the academy.  Quite a day - would have been good to have been there!

 

Instead I had a busy day and on a not so nice note, someone hit my car in the car park in Ricky and scratched the back driver's side quite badly.  I wouldn't have noticed but some kind soul put a note on my window giving me the registratation number, make and model of car.  They also took picutres with their mobile phone of her car and her (isn't technology wonderful).  What a nice man.  This means that I have now been able to report this to the police and they will investigate.  Hopefully I won't have to pay out for the damage repair.  I have to wait 7-14 days to hear from the police.

 

On an entirely different topic, I was very, very brave today  and can now tick one more thing of my bucket list :-)

 

Thanks for looking.

Free Candy and yet More Hens!

It would be worth you taking a trip over to Dawn the Crafter's Blog where she is kindly offering some free candy.  I for one would love to win this as it has quite a lot of blue and that just happens to be my favourite colour.  Weird really because I wasn't really aware that it was my favourite colour until I tidied my stash a while back and discovered how many "blue" things I had accumulated over the years.  The problem is I don't really make anything blue!  Told you it was weird.

As my title suggests Hazel, Pat and I finished off another stack of hens.  This time for a different charity that Hazel's daughter Fiona is raising funds for.  Pat and Hazel had knitted loads of hens and I managed about 5 or 6 I think. We had a session on Saturday afternoon finishing off the hens and then Hazel packed them in her lovely basket for their journey to Fiona's house.  Here they are ready to go. 

 

 

There were dozens in the basket and they looked as if they were trying to escape.  Is it just me or does this picture remind you of the bit in I Robot where all the old robots are in the big steel containers?

 

Hazel has since told me that Fiona managed to sell nearly all of the hens and raised quite a lot of money.  Once I know the exact amount I'll let you know.

 

That's it for today.  Thank you for looking.

Knitted Hens

Thought you might like to see some of the hens that Hazel and I have been making.  Most of these were made by Hazel but I did make quite a few.  Pat and I went over to Hazel's on Wednesday night and had a fun evening sewing on eyes, beaks and then sewing the hens together.  Then Pat came over to me on Thursday night and we sewed up another 21. 

The hens each have a Cadbury's cream egg in and Sheila has been selling these at work for £1 each for Meningitis.  BIG thanks to her.

 

I think theses ones look like a hen choir!

Thanks for looking.