Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Twixtmas

 Tidying, tidying, sorting, sorting. 

Sewing room unearthed

Command Central  (dining room) - hey, look, floor!
And access to the shoe box, I can put my sandals away!
These rather undetermined and nebulous days are both hard and easy - although I'm not very energetic I have got a lot done. I have cleaned rugs and put lots of sewing-machine plates away (mostly from my bedroom floor!) and poked a lot of seriously dirty corners with a sharp Henry.

So now to work on my Block Of The Month for February's launch, and find a Word For 2022...

Saturday, December 4, 2021

I don't like to admit it...

...but I have been feeling stressed. I've spent all my Widow money, have had to let my cleaner go as I can't afford her (but she was turning a bit weird on me), and it's Winter, dark, cold, and rather soggy.. Season of Mulch, as they say...

And yesterday, as I was finishing my supper and about to light the fire and slump gently, I found a whole bunch of emails telling me that my eBay account was suspended because I had caused some kind of (unspecified) risk "to the eBay community" and also that every transaction for the last month, items I have bought, paid for, and received, was apparently cancelled... WTAF? 

So, I mooch webwards; find advice; email eBay, get a standard response,: do it again and again and again. Give up, go to bed, lie awake fretting. As I don't ever sell on eBay and have good results from buying there (and absolutely everything stops with a supension) I was more than cross.. I set up another account, just in case.

Then this morning, with no reason given or apology offered, all is reinstated...


This is bullying. You just have to wonder why they can't just give a REASON so that at least I could admit or deny it...

Oh, I wish I didn't have to bother, but it is a useful source of Stuff


Back to the stocktaking, the sewing, and supper, which at least is worth eating...

And I got my Booster jab, my flu jab, finished a quilt top, hoovered the sewing room, perhaps it's not all bad.. Just need to stop grinding my teeth when I'm asleep...