{"id":1078,"date":"2013-05-05T00:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-05-06T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T23:07:50","slug":"eventful-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/eventful-week\/","title":{"rendered":"It has been an eventful week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been an eventful week, I celebrated my birthday on Monday, I only admit to 43, and it\u2019s getting harder to be convincing, but I take the view the years between 40 and 60 are the best 10 years of a woman\u2019s life. I celebrated by starting a new job, part time and temporary but slightly better paid, so I\u2019ll be able to buy more fabric. Yay!<br \/>\nI took the afternoon off to take the 16 year old to Kendal for a college interview, 2hrs in a stuffy hall while she took her interview and tests, but she got an offer of a place. And Kendal\u2019s only 20 miles away. Yay!<br \/>\nGot to do some interesting and useful things at work this week, all very positive, and came home on time and feeling good about my day.<br \/>\nWednesday was 1st of May, I got the convertible out of Dad\u2019s garage and taxed it, my precious is back on the road, Thursday morning I drove to work with the top down and the wind in my hair, here comes summer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/80020974c3bbb10f193e966a4d739e82.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1080\" alt=\"80020974c3bbb10f193e966a4d739e82\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/80020974c3bbb10f193e966a4d739e82-205x300.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/80020974c3bbb10f193e966a4d739e82-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/80020974c3bbb10f193e966a4d739e82.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 85vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThursday lunchtime I got to exercise my Civic duty, to vote in the local election, I could get a postal vote but actually I enjoy the process of turning up at my local polling station, getting my ballot paper and putting my X in the box. Not only am I grateful to live in a democracy, but I never forget the Suffragettes who risked all to achieve Universal Suffrage. To me, not bothering to vote would be a betrayal of all they suffered. Being an Unrepentant Feminist and for many years a single professional woman, I value very highly the contribution they made to the Equality of Rights in society. Thank the Lord I live in the 21st century.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/590e2a2ed3816aeafc01903e9b200dc7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1079\" alt=\"590e2a2ed3816aeafc01903e9b200dc7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/590e2a2ed3816aeafc01903e9b200dc7-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/590e2a2ed3816aeafc01903e9b200dc7-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/590e2a2ed3816aeafc01903e9b200dc7.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the walk back from the polling station, I visited my local charity shop and bought a man\u2019s shirt to add to my collection of 100% cotton plaids, that I am collecting for a project of which more later. It cost me \u00a31.50 and is in perfect condition, doesn\u2019t look as if it has ever been worn, I already have several, none of which cost me more than \u00a31.50, for some I only paid a \u00a31.<br \/>\nThe previous week I was standing in my local supermarket considering the price of cheese when I became aware of a couple to my right chatting to a friend, who was talking about a charity shop where he volunteered, he was telling them that they moved all the stock which hadn&#8217;t sold into an upstairs room and sold it off at \u00a31 a garment. Now I\u2019m not in the habit of earwigging at stranger\u2019s conversations in the supermarket, but I admit to hanging about long enough to discover the whereabouts of this charity shop, and I admit also that had this information not being forthcoming I would have had the brass neck to interrupt him to ask. I visited that Charity shop forthwith, 3 shirts a \u00a31 each.<\/p>\n<p>I once overheard a woman telling her friend about a factory shop that sold Laura Ashley roll ends and seconds, I wasn\u2019t brave enough to stop her and ask the whereabouts of this shop, and the regret haunts me to this day!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once overheard a woman telling her friend about a factory shop that sold Laura Ashley roll ends and seconds, I wasn\u2019t brave enough to stop her and ask the whereabouts of this shop, and the regret haunts me to this day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[305,304,307,303,306,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}