GOOD WEEK, BAD WEEK.

A beautiful sunrise one morning this week.

TAKING STOCK.

Quick bit about my health and letting others know to find out as much as you can about your medications if you are not feeling as good as you did some months ago.  I've been unwell now for about 15 months and the pharmacist decided to do a check on what I was taking.  It seems blood pressure tablets can have quite a few side affects when taken for a long time, so this may be the root of all my problems and once sorted I may feel like my old self.  My high blood pressure is probably hereditary as I'm not overweight (being approx. 49 kgs and 149 cm tall), don't smoke or drink and was going to the gym twice a week till about 15 months ago when I started getting these bad chest pains.  Ok, you probably didn't need to know all that, but just so people have an idea of "medications" which are sometimes needed anyway.

This has been the strangest week.  On Wednesday two letters arrived to tell me my Dentist had sold his practice and moved on, my favourite bookshop is closing down and to top it all off, the Sister I speak to at my father's nursing home is leaving.  Why on earth all in one week.  I suppose the best thing was finding out the above and hoping to get that sorted.  We also have had a couple of nice sunny days, although the breeze was cold.  Oz has even had it's first decent snowfalls of the season.  I also received my Yorkshire Life and a parcel, which contained the 3 books below it, which I ordered way back in March from Amazon.  The Andre Rieu book my hubby found whilst browsing in our bookshop, which is of course having a closing down sale. I am a big Andre fan and we've been to two of his concerts when he's been in Australia.  I also love Celtic Woman and Helmut Lottie, which is probably a bit of a mishmash to most.

My lovely surprises.

Now for what I've been up to this week.

"Starlight, Starbright".
Changed the wall hanging in the hall at the beginning of the month for this one.  I seem to be remembering to do this little challenge so far.

A spot of baking yesterday resulted in a quick chocolate brownie and a 1 cup apricot cake.  This is not what I was originally going to make, but my kitchen scales had decided to die on me, so I needed to find recipes that didn't need ingredients to be weighed.  Notice my first snowflake in the little vase.

Today I will hopefully get some binding sewn on my "Lace Circles" and some cutting and maybe some piecing for the Christmas Quiltalong ready for next weekend.  I hope to get the writing onto my "A" is for applique block done, so I can start embroidering that.  I have also got 3 table runners on the longarm, with one already done and hopefully the other 2 sometime today.
At least I had a good night's sleep, so maybe today I will not be so tired and achieve these things easily.  Hubby is already at work and won't be home till late this afternoon, so the day is my own.
Have a lovely Sunday bloggers.