Good Morning!

@MDT hi hun has been too long since we have spoken. pic is of my beautiful bunny who is now in bunny heaven eating carrots and strawberries 🙂 . how are you going?

@MDT Hams that is great! i am glad you are at peace with the world. i know exactly what you mean about your wins yesterday with the low cost veggies it is the little wins that give us often the most enjoyment. i bought a scarf the other day which was a quarter of its original price and with the extra discount i had in the store it cost me nothing! made my day :D. enjoy your coffee.xx

Thank you for your fulsome praise, @Former-Member. I only have my own judgement to rely on usually. It really is a sweet pattern. Not me with the sewing machine. I used to make many of my children's (and my) clothes when they were little, but that was long ago. I haven't even had a machine for decades although I'm thinking of getting one. I don't have the same patience I used to have though.

I really did laugh out loud at your humour, @tonys. Shaving was a nice gesture. Thank you. And thank you for your kind thoughts. Same back to you, though less eloquently.

Have a good day.

P.S. Just got a note from Amazon...'Dear Sir'. Also referred to the 'massage'/message. Oh well.

Yes your knitting is really good @Historylover you should be proud of your efforts. I bet your sewing was great too. I used to sew most of my clothes at uni. I have done sewing since but the price of fabrics was a bit prohibitive. Darn Cheap Fabrics has end of reel offcuts which are more affordable. I also used to do Bargain Box which is great for cheap fabrics. I also know Melbourne is a bit of a fabrics hub and there are always people needing to liquidate their reels of fabric. They set up shops without a shingle and just push through reels of material. No patterns or haberdashery in the shop itself just reels of fabric they want to get rid of

My ex-psy took me away from sewing and he was right @Former-Member. He thought I should immerse myself in books which I did, but at the moment I had been enjoying being crafty for a change. I won't get a machine as I haven't missed one in 30 years. A stitch in time... and all that. Besides, I expect I'd soon tire of it like my keyboard. I just don't know what I will do to occupy my time next. Back to books perhaps or...

You will be ok @Historylover I get pretty lonely too on occasion. I don't have people in my life so I just fill my days with activity. It used to bother me but not anymore. I prefer my own company. But some days especially when the moon is void of course (inbetween zodiac signs, ie when the moon is empty and is not in a sign) I notice it more.

I don't like the sound of your previous shrink Historylover. He seemed to have a lot of dictates as to how you chose to live your life. My doctors never told me to read books or not to do crafts etc I'm sorry you wound up with him based on other things you have said.

My previous shrink was nice and done the hard yards in life but tbh I had no faith in her competancy. She used to roll up to Zoom meetings totally out of it. She tried regulating my eating with diabetes which is fair enough but she made an admission she only drank coffee for breakfast so no glucose or carbs in her system and with hurried habits eating on the go. I could not trust in her ability to make decisions.

Unfortunately she seemed to be more consumed with her own problems and could not be present for her patients. The first time I met her all she wanted to do was talk about her own problems. I let that go through to the goalkeeper but after a while it was a pattern

Anyway I don't see her anymore. She wanted me to see her as I sensed she needed the money from medicare. I was just there for medicine management and then in the end she pronounces that she could not take me off my medication as I'd been on it for 20 years. My GP sent me in there to get me off that med! On the outset I told her that was what I was there for. In the end I discovered she was just using me to bankroll medicare. I dont see her anymore as she could not make proper decisions. I did not trust in her ability to run her own life let alone mine