September 2, 2026, Wednesday
So, yesterday was the first day of Spring. That’s calendar spring, not to be confused with the later equinoctial spring. For once the weather matched the billing. It was warm and sunny, albeit with a nippy frost to start the day. And in stark contrast to the previous day, a bitterly cold final calendar day of winter. The daffodils in Hagley Park were still putting on a good display when we drove round there on Sunday.
With the advent of spring comes gardening. And with that in mind, I decided to continue my apprenticeship in visible mending by darning a largish hole in my gardening jersey before said hole grew even bigger. There’s a bit of a craze for visible mending. Social media is filled with snappy decorative examples. And make it look so easy. So I thought, never too late to learn a skill I probably should have learnt decades ago. My first attempt a month or so ago was an ambitious two-tone attempt on a cardigan. Effective at mending the hole, definitely attention-drawing, but not pretty. Yesterday’s attempt was less ambitious in that I matched the wool. Again, effective but not pretty,nor, given its position, attention grabbing — which in this instance is a good thing. I have a way to go in the darning business. Lack the patience. But it was a pleasant enough way to spend some time in the sun.
And now to another lost and found wallet story. On reading about my recent experience, friend K recalled a similar experience. Some months ago, she had lost a small purse containing the usual stuff you don’t want to lose. She went to the café where she last used it, then to the subsequent places she visited, all to no avail. She proceeded to replace everything that was in it. Then out of the blue, some several months later, she received a call from her osteopath, saying please call this woman as she thinks she has your purse. The woman had found the osteopath’s card in a purse she had found in the café K had been in. The woman had been looking for a friend’s lost ear pods but found K’s purse instead, well-hidden under the banquette seating. As far as we know, the ear pods remain lost. So, always keep an appointment card in your wallet — it may come in useful.
Off Highway One 