This was the view from my window at 7 o'clock this morning. Fog is not a common thing in Adelaide, although we get one from time to time. It lasted until around 10.00am and closed the airport.
It didn't stop my window cleaner from coming about 7.40 am.
It is very good to have them clean - much better for taking photos without scaring the birds!
Yesterday, when I returned home, I found a card in the letterbox telling me a courier had tried to deliver a parcel. It was one of the annoying ones - providing a website to contact. The website says to call back later to make a choice about picking it up at the depot on the other side of town, or have them redeliver in 3-4 day's time. Except my message said to check back later. Just before midnight I sent them a complaining email. This morning there was a message telling me to pick it up from the depot before 12 noon tomorrow ' as we are moving'. I figured I'd better go and pick it up.
While I waited for the fog to lift I took the Acorn embroidery off the blocking board and pinned both pieces to the chair cover. I decided to try stitching the outside edges of the pieces on the machine.
This was a mistake. I broke a needle and couldn't get the edge close enough to the piping. It's not easy to position the new pieces. As well as fitting the new around the existing embroideries, the linen needs to cover the whole base.
Machine stitching the pieces didn't work and would need to come off. At this point, a trip to the courier depot was in order.
Just as I was leaving I had a call from Jennifer. She was in the emergency department at Royal Adelaide Hospital having been taken in an ambulance around 5 am. She has had more tests and was waiting to see a heart specialist. It seems she has damage to her heart and lungs which is producing fluid that makes her breathing difficult. She was cheerful and very happy with the medical help at the hospital. She was waiting to see a heart specialist and to find out whether or not they were going to admit her. There was also an issue of where in the hospital she would be best treated. She was glad she had gone to the hospital, and confident that things would improve with a diagnosis and treatment plan.
This is a pernicious disease, full of uncertainties. I think that Jennifer will get the answers she needs about her condition and treatment that enables her to manage it. She's good at that. I'm assuming she's in the hospital tonight but will be home again in a day or two.
Yesterday Jennifer sent me this photo, taken through a flyscreen, of a dove which has built a nest outside their dining room window - a cousin, she thinks, of Myrtle. Before long we'll be construction dove family trees!
The parcel turned out to be a book I had ordered from The Book Depository - delivered from Sydney via courier. I try not to buy things delivered by courier - this one in particular.
While out I called at North Adelaide for fruit and a few supplies.
Back at home I set about fixing the cushion cover. I took the machine stitching out, re-pined and stitched by hand. That way, I could keep an eye on it. It took quite a while, but I was pretty pleased with the result.
There is now a gap along the front of the cushion. This is very much a work in progress. I think it needs something there. I need time to think about it.
This evening I'm back at my knitting - only about 11 rows.
It's progress.
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