using up my annual allocation of luck
I’ve been wearing dresses in rotation, very unusual for me. I am generally more fond of trousers but because it was warm and because I keep making dresses, I thought I’d better wear them. So I did. I keep meaning to document my sewing projects. I even purchased a tripod for my phone for that very purpose. Alas. Last Saturday, I had a scary encounter with wasps while out volunteering. And I mean proper scary. I was scything away, minding my own business, lost in thought because scything has that kind of effect with its rhythmic movement. If you never tried it, I very much recommend it. I must have disturbed a ground wasp nest. One second all was just lovely and the next I was surrounded by what seemed hundreds of very angry little wasps, not the kind you might find on your ice cream, but a smaller, angrier variety. I know they were small because I found one later in my bra and another one in my trouser leg. They were really angry. I must admit to feeling a bit panicky and with sc...
