When Gina told me yesterday that a mutual contact had asked if all was well with me, I realised how long it is since I last wrote a blog. Although I mainly 'do' Facebook these days I had thought I would try to write a monthly blog but I have failed. There are several reasons for this. Despite the possible evidence to to the contrary I have been going though a protracted blank phase of not being able to motivate myself to do anything. I have had an on-going problem of dizziness since last spring. An MRI scan could find nothing wrong, which is reassuring, but also no comfort when no remedy can be found. The ENT dept put it down to vestibular migraine - dizziness instead of / as well as a headache, but I'm not convinced as dizzy spells last days, even though they're not severe enough to stop me carry on with daily tasks, I don't feel like doing a lot else. Having read something on FB, it could be down to the iPad. The movement of the image on the screen apparently can effect some people, but I had mine a year before the trouble started. I'm going to try to severely ration myself for a week or two to see if it helps. I've tried a food diary and stopped drinking red wine, but can't spot a trigger. A GP said it was down got me to try to figure it out. Sometimes I think it is tension, other times sinusitus. Of course the other factor is, having nothing else to think about. I'm trying to keep busy.. but.
Now you know why I haven't been blogging, no one wants to read about someone's symptoms. Anyway, since June I have been doing a lot of crocheting. This is productive, repetitive, creative, mindless and soothing.
I started with a couple of scarves. (Free pattern here)
and now I'm working on a blanket,
it will be about 5 foot square when finished. I'm about three quarters way through. It is a ripple pattern. Here is a picture from a while back when I just got going on it. (For pattern see Attic24)
In July we had a bit of a crisis when Mungo went missing. Just in the peak of the hot weather he didn't come home for five nights. I was so worried he'd got shut in someone's shed and would die of heat exhaustion. I put out flyers and posters and rang every possible agency short of the FBI. We were just contemplating picking up his bowls of dry food etc. but at 3.30am Mr T got up to visit the bathroom and heard this plaintive cry from the kitchen. There he was! He was very hungry, but otherwise fine. If only they could tell you where they'd been.
Meanwhile we have had our old conservatory replaced. We had to find homes for all this 'junk'. We did get rid of some of it.
I'd mainly acquire a lot of the 'stuff' to camouflage a rather ugly, rotting lean-to, but grown rather fond of a lot of it. Not sure how it will fit into my lovely new pristine conservatory
We now have to decide what we're going to do with the inside.
On my creative side, I'm treading water. I'm committed to creating a piece for Spectrum next February, but it has been dragging on. I want to get it started, but here I am on the computer, and my brain is hurting. So bye for now, hope you are well and I'll try and catch up on your news too.
Hope you enjoying this wonderful weather too, I had lunch in the garden today. It would be Mum's birthday, can't remember doing that before on the 2nd October.
Jill
