If last week’s post was all about the Hearts and Flowers Mobile, this week has just been about keeping mobile, full stop!   Last Monday morning I was proceeding blamelessly down the road in my little car, an old faithful which has been in the family for years, and an elderly man pulled out of a side road straight into me.  He confessed that he just didn’t see me.  Neither of us was hurt, just shaken, and I thought I had got off lightly with a damaged bumper.  Alas, an inspection at the garage discovered that all sorts of things had happened under the bonnet (you can tell I’m not terribly sure what happens under the bonnet!) and my car was deemed beyond economical repair.

I’ve forgotten which insurance company used to trumpet that they don’t make a drama out of a crisis, but it certainly wasn’t ours!  I won’t bore you with the tale of how many hoops they produced for us to leap through, even when it was established I was completely blameless.  I’ll gloss over the gibbering frustration and cut to the happy ending which was that the lovely man in our local garage (we went to primary school together) produced an ideal replacement which ticks all the boxes, particularly of transporting my mum and her wheelchair.  And in the nick of time as Tim has just headed off in his car which is about to spend a week in the car park at Luton Airport. (Not Tim you understand, just his car!)   So I’m mobile again, and I’ve got a much better use for hoops than jumping through, as you will see…

We’re about to plunged back into Winter apparently.  I saw a newspaper headline yesterday which screamed  “48 HOURS OF SNOW HELL!!”  some people can expect “UP TO 10CM!!!”  That’s around 4 inches if you are reading this in the US, where by all accounts some of you are sitting under 4 FEET and more of the stuff.  If you are, I’m thinking of you.  I’m sure you are coping better than the UK where the default position seems to be of ‘making a drama out of a crisis’ again.  SO embarrassing!

So that’s why I’m going back to earlier in the week when the sun shone and Higgins and I went out into the garden to spot signs of spring.  The primroses are still looking good…

There was just the one violet…

…a solitary crocus..

..and of course, my favourite snowdrops…

I brought this piece of Spring indoors too…

A good use for a favourite cup which has been glued back together after an unfortunate incident with a tabby cat!

And those hoops we were jumping through ?  Well, I’ve made another mobile, for the knitters this time.  Remember the Christmas ornaments from Day Two of the Advent Calendar?  I just loved the mini yarn balls and needles so much I wanted to use them again…

 It would be perfect for hanging in a craft corner…

…and a great way of using yarn scraps.  (It reminds me of the story of the old lady who had a box in her dresser labelled ‘Pieces of String To Short to be Useful’, I have bags of yarn like that!)

Tomorrow I am back to needlefelting, neglected for too long.  I have a group of 14 ladies from or local W.I.S.E. group (Women In Search of Entertainment) I just hope I can entertain them with a needlefelting class…we are making hearts and  I hope to have some pictures for my next post.

I’m linking up with Handmade Monday later today which you’ll find hosted by Wendy over on Handmade Harbour and…

I’ll be back soon,  have a lovely week …x