White Threads

After my first White Threads FlossTube yesterday I received so much encouragement! Thank you to all who watched, those who also subscribed, and those who responded with encouragement. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can find it on my YouTube channel.

I do not plan to post a new video every day, as it would simply become a Hungry Beast That Needs To Be Fed, and that would not make me happy!

If you have suggestions of things you’d like me to cover in the videos, or questions that you’d like answered, please let me know.

Here, we are currently heading into winter. Our first winter here in Walcha (said “Wolka”) was quite cold. We had two snow events, which many people do not associate with Australia, particularly this far north, but as we are high up (over 1000m) we can get snow. However, friends here have told me last winter was actually quite a mild one. Okaaay.

While we are still enjoying some of our summer vegetable crop (including tomatoes coming out of our ears!) yesterday I planted some vegies for winter. It’s probably about as late as we can do it, but I had to wait for the seeds to arrive in the post! It seems like everyone else has had the same thought – “I have to grow food myself!” – and the seed companies have apparently been rather swamped with orders.

Hopefully, if they survive my attempts to raise them, as well as the frosts that will soon start, it will mean we can stay home more, and shop less. And spending time tending to them in the garden is a great way to escape the house. I have also been looking at the weeds in the garden and trying to identify which ones can be a food source. Some weeds are actually very nutritious! It sounds like we’re scrounging terribly, but if it keeps us away from the shops and therefore other people, that’s a good thing.

I’m knitting a jumper (sweater) which will be forever known as my coronavirus jumper, simply because of the associations of the time in which I am knitting it. Someone recently asked me if I was going to embroider on it. Coupled with her suggestion and my thoughts on it being my coronavirus jumper, I am now wondering if little coronavirus symbols on it might be appropriate. We’ll see!

I’ve been filling orders regularly, supervising my daughter’s home learning and working on the next book.

What are you doing to fill your days? I know some of you will be working from home, others still having to attend work as some work cannot cease (my husband is one of these), others facilitating school at home, others pottering along at home, and others may be quite desperate for things to do and social contact! I hope that you are doing ok.