While I wait to Zoom with Scrub Stitchin'.

 Chooky has invited a bunch of folks who can't be at Scrub Stitchin' to join a zoom session. You know that means I'll be working on Lucy. 

Here is where she is up to at the moment.

I have to use my design floor for a photo today, as the model with the tanned legs has gone fishing with his dad!

While I'm zooming, I'll be adding one or two more blocks to the growing pile in Grandads stool.

Miss Belle won't be needing it today, she is sat in the window, sunning herself and bird watching.

A quick word about some recent baking.

This delicious apple shortcake was quite quick and easy to make.

I used the recipe in the good old Edmonds cook book.

Another recent bake was an Irish Soda bread.

A recipe I have used for many years. 

And, as Tony is fishing today....

Fishermen need a pie, so I made a sausage and egg pie.

No recipe, I just winged it!

Hmm, it was sliced up and went into a box and was packed away before I could get a picture of how it looks once sliced.

And Zoom started before I could finish my post. It was great fun. Lots and lots of show and tell.

It was still very early, 6am at the retreat but already lots of activity, with sewing and chatter going on, before breakfast. It was great to see everyone.

Thank you sew much Chooky and Janice for including those of us who could not be there in person.

I did manage to get a little Lucy sewing done, in between all of the show and tell. LOL

Hopefully one year I'll be able to get there and join in for real. 

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And, because I had already uploaded the photos, a quick look at my latest jigsaw puzzle.

This is the pirate ship puzzle that Tony purchased for me. (If you click on the linky you'll need to scroll down a little to see a picture of the box.)

I think this one may take a while.

And finally, my health.

As those of you who were on the zoom session heard, my voice is coming and going, but I do sound better than I did.

I have an inhaler now which is helping me to breathe. Physically and mentally I am in a much better place than I was 2-3 weeks ago.

Some of you suggested a second opinion, I went one further and changed Doctors completely. 

The new Doctor says I almost certainly had a respiratory virus of some sort, which I had fought off. The tight windpipe and vocal chords are left overs from that illness. I was prescribed an inhaler, which I puff on routinely twice a day and in between if I become breathless. In less than a week, the inhaler has made a huge difference. I can have a conversation and move about normally, without becoming breathless. I didn't need any extra puffs yesterday. 

I'm hoping to be able to return to work on Monday. After a six week absence I'm sure there will be a lot of changes mostly due to covid/omicron. 

I'm off to make another cuppa, then sew some more Lucy pieces.