Its been a tough year but I am just about holding it all together. I am quite self aware and I do recognise my faults and try and work on some aspects of them .

On the whole I am quite easy going and very tolerant. It has come to my attention recently that there is one are where I have very high standards and am some what intolerant. What is this I hear you wonder? It’s the work ethic. I just don’t understand how people who have a good job, can’t respect their other team members and  ensure they share the load or use their common sense to ensure one person is not left holding the baby so to speak. I have been thinking back over the years and luckily I have only experienced this in two of my job roles.
In one role one of my colleagues stole my ideas and sold them as their own, they also played the victim card, so would break down in tears if any one asked her about how they came up with the ideas. This same person would also take things off the shelf to do work for their other role and prep this stuff at work.

In another role I had a colleague who was consistently late and when you tried to speak to them, they had a don’t care attitude. You knew the time you started when you took the role. Why do think it’s okay for you to be late and others not? They were quite happy to go off the floor numerous times for cigarette breaks not caring if there was anyone left in the department or not. As long as their needs were met that’s all that mattered in their eyes.

In both these examples I guess it’s down to bad management. If you let someone continuously get away with things they will never think they are accountable and will continue their bad behaviour. Some one said to me recently that I should accept that people have different work ethics to me, which I guess is one way to look at it, but why shouldn’t everyone in a good job, at the same level have a good work ethic?

My grandchildren aren’t really babies anymore. As you know little miss Evalyn loves the blue fabric with spots and carries her blanket everywhere with her. I thought I would make her a bunny in the fabric. Unfortunately it didn’t go down very well, when I first have it to her. The reason we discovered, was , that she thought I had taken her blanket and turned it into the bunny. Harry after seeing Evalyns said he would like one, I had already promised to knit him one , but as this is quicker, I readily agreed. I brought one of the boxes of fabric down and he repeatedly chose the Liberty Tana Lawn Zoo print fabric. I readily agreed and as you can see in the end they both love their rabbits.

I promised earlier that I would write a more detailed post about maintaining your fountain pens. I have been writing with fountain pens for decades . There is a serene pleasure writing with a fountain pen. Over the years I would rinse my pens out  with varying degrees of success, when they wouldn’t write properly. Recently I have been made aware that one should be flushing your pens every 6- 8 weeks or when you change the brand of ink you are using. 

STEP 1:

Rinse the nib of pen and place nib in a beaker of water, just enough to cover the nib piece. Leave for 24 hours.

  
If there is a lot of ink in the water you can replace the water after an hour and then leave until e 24 hours are up.

  
After 24 hours place nib in an empty container with a piece of kitchen roll or blotting paper and leave until it has dryed fully

   
  I have been having issues uploading posts lately so will add more pictures at a later date.

Happy Easter everyone.

this week I found a couple of old fountain pens that weren’t working very well. I was going to throw them away but decided to try and clean them. Apparently there is a product you can buy to flush them out but I searched the whole of Bluewater and couldn’t find any. Apparently you should give your fountain pen a flush every six to eight weeks or when you change inks. I asked the lovely people in the Mont Blanc store and they suggested I put the nib in a small beaker of water, just enough to cover it and leave it overnight. I followed the steps and my pens worked immediately. I am so happy and will be flushing my pens regularly. I will update with photos at a later date.

Well, daughter number 2s wedding is fast approaching. It is this weekend in fact and I still have so much to do. My daughter is a very independent young lady and has done most of the wedding stuff on her own. Now I have just been given 80 napkins on which to sew labels commemorating her wedding. A kind of wedding favour! I also have her ring cushion to finish. I don’t have much to do but the sides of the arch still need a few stitches. It’s the part with lots of individual stitches in different colours, aargh. Isn’t funny how you want your children to be independent as adults, and they enjoy being independent. When things get manic however, they then want to be more dependent, aren’t happy if you don’t pander to them and remember things with a glass half empty view. Nowt so strange as folk.