Where I am on the south coast, we had quite a bit of wind and a lot of rain. Several trees were brought down in the area, some blocking roads, other narrowly avoiding houses. We have a huge oak tree in the garden and there's a lot more light coming through it now, as it lost about half its leaves - got no idea where they ended up, as they're not in neighouring gardens. A plant pot was blown over, as was our recycling bin, and one of the soffit panels on the front of our garage was torn off. There were already a couple of cracks in the garage roof, and that part of the garage was flooded. The wind woke me up twice in the night when it was really blowing. Not anywhere near as bad as 1987 - that really was bad.
All was quiet by mid-day when I went to my lace group. Saw no sign of trees down, and just one road sign lying on the grass verge. Everyine was there and no-one seemed to have suffered anything much. LACE CONTENT: I am currently working on the "simplest" butterfly from Ulrike Lhor's 'Butterfly and Moth'. If that's the simplest, I have no intention of attempting the others! I found the head extremely difficult, crossing the threads from one side to the other and working half stitch in one colour inside another in whole stitch. After four attempts, I decided to leave it as it was as a "design feature". Probably doesn't help that I changed the colours to use what I already had. I also enlarged it to A4 and it's fiddly enough at that magnification. My admiration to anyone who makes at the original size. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
