On 14 October 2021 I wrote:
My smock has wild strawberries! All to do now is to soak it to remove the plasticky stabilizer stuff that I use to transfer the design. And then onto the next design.
Your bonus pic today is a corner of our living room… the lamp base came from Dad’s parents in Germany.. I love how it seems the whole base is lit up from the inside when it’s just the reflected light from the gold inside the modern shade.
Mum’s parents returned to Scotland from South Africa when I was 12. Pickfords had packed up all their stuff and the whole house was full of tea chests. Each day after school for that first week I would come home via their house and would unpack a tea chest with Gran. Oh the treasures! This vase with the glads in it was one. We’ve always called it the majolica vase but I’m not certain it is. Mum gave it to me some years ago when she began dispersing her things.
The wine cooler was a gift to my parents on their silver wedding anniversary.
And the decor was created by The Captain… this is the drinks cupboard that he made, including the waney edged top which I love.
I’m just going to leave that there.
I have so much going on in my life just now, with more unhappiness than I thought it was possible for me to bear. And I discover that when all this is going on I kinda lose the ability to write anything about it at all. And there was me thinking that I could channel the negative emotions, and lay my vulnerability out there. I think because it impacts other people, it feels like I should not share, that I have to edit what I say, how I say it, have to curate this bit of my life on here. And if I feel unable to express things just as I feel them, then I am lost here.
I also have a few other priorities for my time at the moment, and so will focus my attention on the things that really have to be done. And then, when the time is right, I’ll come back to this. But there may not be many posts on here for a while.
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Thank you for reading this.
If you want to read more about my relationship with Mum and her dementia, then you could start here at Taking smock of the Situation. Or just dip in. After all, if I’ve learned anything this last few years it’s that chronology and time are less important than we might believe.
Finally, if it’s not too much to ask (I know, it is, apologies) I would really appreciate it if you could make a donation towards Alzheimer Scotland. They’re doing stuff that makes living with this more bearable for so many people. Thank you, thank you, a thousand thank yous.
Shewolfinthevalley 
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