I like making things: I am reading blogs just not able to comment

Saturday, April 12, 2025

I am reading blogs just not able to comment

I read my Blogger every day to keep up with everyone. I do it on my PC. For some reason or another, I can not comment. It drives me nuts. I can comment on my phone but where we live we do not get good service, so unless we are out, our phones are not much use.

So please know I think about you all and feel it when things go wrong for you.

When we go out I am the driver so not able to use the phone and we do not go out that often anyway so time to post comments is really limited.

The fault is with Google on my PC, when I try to comment it tells me to sign into my Google account. Which is very annoying as I am signed into it! It just goes round in a loop and keeps telling me to sign in. And when I go to sign in, it tells me I am already signed in. aarrgghh!!!

The excitement this week was our wedding anniversary. We drove 90+ miles to get some good battered cod and on the way back we took a tour of The Fantastic Caverns. It is a huge cavern system that you can only tour in one of their Jeep and trailer thingies. There are only 4 caverns in the world that are big enough to do this type of tour so we are lucky to live reasonably close to one of them. My husband got to ride shotgun and I am right behind him.

We are enjoying the current milder weather, it is lovely to see evrything outside spring into life.

Take care everyone. XXXXX

Unfortunately, since then my husband has been having more heart problems. He is scheduled to see his cardiologist later this month so hopefully they can get it settled down again.

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Cheryl KimbleyApril 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Happy Anniversary. Hope you get hubs all taken care of heath wise!
Have you tried posting under anonymous on blogs? I know some have to, and then they just write their name in their answer.
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kate steeperApril 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I had the same problem for a few weeks, never did manage to figure it out but it resolved itself eventually
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DonnaApril 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Happy Anniversary! Hope the doctors find the problem!
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Donna
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The Happy WhiskApril 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Happy Anniversary. Do you have allow third party cookies on the computer? If I have those off on the computer, it shows I'm signed in yet cannot comment. Very odd.
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AnonymousJune 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Blogger and Google have it in for me. I cannot sign in to either! I bought a new laptop today.
Sorry about your husband's health problems. Tommy finally started paying someone to mow as he cannot anymore. It has been even longer since I could mow.
What caverns did you visit?
Happy anniversary!
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AnonymousJuly 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Have you tried signing out then signing back in?
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Donna
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As in the words of Thumper: If you can't say 'nuffin nice don't say 'nuffin at all.

Glad you stopped by

I started this blog in 2011: Ever since my Mum taught me to knit at the age of about six or seven I have made things. Back then it was doll clothes. I was also inspired by Mrs Levitt an elderly lady who had a sewing room in a conservatory type room on the back of her house. I would sit and watch her in awe as she sewed.

When I was a child living in England the school system was such that you started at 5 years, did two years in Infant School, then four years in Primary School then five to seven years in Secondary School, depending on whether you chose to stay on after fifth form to get qualifications to go to University. I can't remember much of the Infant school other than making the standard square doily thingy from fabric that had holes in it so you could embroider patterns into it. A bit like the modern day cross stitch fabric but with bigger holes and spaces to make it easy for small hands to use. I also remember with great joy getting a toy sewing machine one Christmas which sewed only chain stitch but I did make doll clothes on it and that was before I started Primary school. I do have very vivid recollections of Primary school and having sewing and knitting lessons. In Primary school I knitted gloves and made a dress from scratch hand sewing it all.

Secondary school continued on with sewing by which time I had progressed to using full sized sewing machines and was making more intricate skirts and dresses. My parents bought me a proper sewing machine when I was thirteen. I used that same machine right up until I emigrated to Canada at age forty six years.

I have always had a fascination for sewing machines and knitting machines. I bought my first knitting machine at around age twenty one from an ad in a newspaper for twelve pounds. I had absolutely no idea what one was just that I wanted one. I trundled on the bus to the address in the advert and handed over my twelve pounds having absolutely no idea what I had really bought. Fortunately it came with a manual. It was an aged Knitmaster, very basic and I loved it. I wore it out. Next was a Brother push button one which I didn't keep because it was at a time in my life when things were difficult. Later on in my life, around forty, when things were better I bought a brand new Brother punchard machine with a ribber attachment. I loved it and made many things. Life took a different turn, I moved countries twice and along the way, regrettably I sold it.

Now, through the universe's blessing I now have another machine. It is a vintage one because they stopped making them early 90's but works perfectly and I love it. So I decided to make this blog to document my knitting progress and include sewing projects.

In 2013: we embarked on a new hobby, leather-work. My husband got started with it and it drew me in. It is something we can do together. We have a workshop so have plenty of room to work. We added another workbench for me to work on in 2013. We already had one but we were tripping over each other both trying to work at it. We only make things we want to make. It is strictly a hobby. We made some things for our good neighbours who help us out a lot. I am also working on Christmas presents. So this blog now incorporates the leather-work. Knitting and sewing will always be my first love though.

Fast forward to 2023 and now age almost 75 years. I have seven sewing machines, four knitting machines, several ribber attachments and a garter carriage for one of the machines. I am blessed beyond words, but I know that I have more than enough machines to keep me going in my lifetime so I don’t think I will be adding to my collection any time soon……….unless a nice embroidery machine manifests itself very cheaply.

I am a Brit living in the USA, sometimes I spell like a Brit and sometimes like an American. Sometimes I use slang and even make grammatical errors. I blog for the pleasure of it and to record my endeavours in the event that my memory fades, as I am sure it will with more age. I will be able to look back and remind myself of the things I have made along the way. So please forgive my mistakes when reading about my life making things here in the hinterlands and I hope you get as much enjoyment from my blog as I do from reading the blogs I follow.

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Saturday, April 12, 2025

I am reading blogs just not able to comment

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