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 Welcome back to my blog for another edition of What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday - courtesy of head desker, Julia.  This week we are remembering the lovely Shaz who passed away peacefully at the weekend after battling cancer for so long.  She was a truly wonderful person who's kindness and sense of fun touched so many, and we will all miss her immensely.

My desk this week is covered in a jigsaw (and my trusty mug of tea).  I do love a jigsaw but don't do them very often as in our little house there is no where to leave them up while I work on them (Alex is doing school work on the dining room table, our coffee table in the lounge is too small, and I have to work on this desk during the day). I was delighted to discover that the white Ikea picture frame was just the right size to fit this 1000 piece jigsaw on so I can work on it on my desk, then move it onto the bed while I work during the day.  I am enjoying the challenge for a change.

I haven't done much crafting this week - other than make this Valentine's day card for Tim.  The Bible verse was actually a stamp that I picked up on the swaps table at the last WOYWW crop in 2019, and I heat embossed it in gold. A clean and simple card overall, but Tim liked it.

This weekend Alex and I went on a rather challenging walk across very icy paths to this beautiful disused reservoir.  It is one of my favourite places to swim, but this weekend the ice was so thick that there was someone ice skating on it, and Alex was able to sit on the ice.  People had kept a small hole open in the ice so I was able to dip into it, and had fun making the hole a little larger for the next people. The water temperature was ~0.8oC, and the Air temperature was -3. I loved every minute of it.

That's all from me for now. I am pleased that the weather is warming up (our snow has finally melted and pavements are safe to walk on again) but will miss the fun of swimming/playing with ice.  Take care and stay safe,

With love & God Bless,
Caro

xxx

WOYWW 610

Welcome back to my blog for the latest edition of What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday hosted  by the lovely Julia.

My desk is currently all set up for work, with my laptop, iPad and bullet journal on display. Each day I have to pack away and tidy my desk ready to set up for working at it. The confession is that I am writing this at 8am this morning and the mug is an old mug of tea from last night - the kettle is boiling and a new mug of tea is on the way, to help me wake up enough to interview prospective medical students which is my job for the day.

There has been very little crafting this week with sledging, snowball fights, church services and other activities taking up much of my time.  I did however, manage to complete these few pages in my journal. Someone was asking about the stickers I use in my journal. The ones on these pages are actually Transfers from Make Up your Life, that I was sent from Japan, but I use any stickers that I find and suit the pages.

We have had quite a lot of snow up here in Sheffield - we live above the snowline and so have had snow since Sunday so Alex and I have both been out sledging in it every day. Good exercise and good fun, especially bumping into friends on the slopes. 

Yesterday was the first day I managed to get the car out and go swimming since Friday and we actually had some sun while we were in the water, and then it clouded over and was snowing by the time we were changing - such fun!

That is all from me for now except to say that I am holding our dear friends Shaz and Doug in my prayers at the moment, surrounding them in love, as Shaz is seriously ill in hospital. Take care and stay safe everyone,

With love & God Bless,

Caro

xxx 

WOYWW 609

 Hello and welcome back to my blog for another edition of What's on Your Workdesk, hosted by the lovely Julia.  I hope that you are all keeping well and safe and warm.

This is my desk as it was last night. In the process of putting some simple decoration (stickers or transfers and some pen) onto the pages of my bullet journal.  You can see my various stickers and transfer sets, my mug of tea (almost empty), my diary journal and various pens etc scattered around. I haven't actually done much in the way of crafting this week as I have been busy with church related things so there is nothing new to show you I'm afraid.

This weekend I counted up and realised that I had swum 20 times in January with water temperatures ranging from 1.6 with ice to 5.1 degrees. This was Sunday's swim, totally beautiful and peaceful.

There isn't a lot more to report from here. Alex and I headed out into the snow yesterday afternoon, where he found some friends to have a massive snowball fight with (he is in there somewhere), and I found several of my friends to stand around and talk to - perfect for both of us.

To give the kids a break from online teaching and screens, his engineering teacher set them a challenge, to make an automata from things they had at home.  Alex put the hot glue gun to good use, and without any help from us, created this from cardboard, kebab sticks, straws and sandpaper.  We were really impressed with the trouble shooting to make it all work, the perseverance and the creativity. 

I will leave you with this photo of the park where I swim taken on Monday - look at the sun!  I hope you all have a good week. Take care and stay safe.

With love & God Bless,

Caro

xxx