You'd think the ants would catch on🤔. Your sweater is gorgeous. The pattern of the honeycomb really makes the neutral color of the yarn look amazing, like it is two tones. 😘 I absolutely love how you combine photos and journaling to create these memory books. Photos alone don't tell the whole story. And the fabric selection is perfect. Thanks for sharing. Now I need to get my device plugged in before it dies, go out and feed the chickens, then come back in and warm up with another cuppa. I need a to do list but just can't be bothered. I feel I am in limbo waiting for the weather to turn so I can be out in the garden. Lots to do out there but snow again today. This is bordering on ridiculous! See you later. Tommy in the bidet, priceless🤗😍
I think the ants don't have great eyesight! You're right about the honeycomb making the wool look two tones - another dimension. I'm so enjoying the memory books. I just select what I want and then when I look at it afterwards I can see the reasoning behind what I've chosen - as a counsellor everything has meaning!! At last we can let our chickens out here in the UK. They are loving it. I do so hope your weather improves soon. Snow still is ridiculous! See you soon. xx
O wow penny that was so lovely. So many lovely things that you shared. Your photos and memories your beautiful garden and little tommy and the heron. Well done. You are so good at this. I love your little giggles too and your smile is the very same as when you were a small little girl. That was so lovely. Thank you
Hi Pene. Thank-you for a lovely hour. The colour and honeycomb pattern work beautifully together. Looks like it's going to be super squishy and warm. Really enjoyed going through your memory book. Such a special way to remember your childhood. The aniexty chats have been so interesting. I'm having a few physical health problems at the moment. Which are affecting my mental health. Gone back to basics with all the coping strategies. Distracting myself with some shawl knitting. Our daughter and husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary at the weekend. Where has that year gone! Have a lovely week, take care. Xx
Hello Pene you are quite right about the spiders here in Australia. I live in an area surrounded by the bush in the south of Sydney. We have some very dangerous spiders and also some useful ones. We often find Redback spiders in our garage and have to be very cautious when gardening because of other dangerous spiders. We’ve also had a few baby red bellied black snakes in our yard. It’s all part of living in this beautiful place. I loved the stories and photos in your memory book. I’m so glad I got to meet your Mum through watching Chinwag. I hope Pete recovers from his accident very soon. That Tommy is just the cutest little boy.
Hello Michelle, I don't think I'd have my affection for spiders if I lived where you do and as for snakes - well!! Pete is improving and I'm hoping another week will greatly improve things. I agree Tommy is a darling. xx
Hi Pene and thank you for your lovely company while I had a little break for a cup of tea and some knitting! I think today’s fascinating fact about the ant-impersonating spider is one of the most amazing ones that you’ve shared so far! I’m quite happy to be with spiders - it’s slugs that I’m less keen on!! I really chuckled at your sudden urge to have a MacDonald’s meal! And then at your conclusion that once very 25 years is enough! I’m in agreement with that. Thanks for all the making that you shared today, too, and the delightful water play! xx
Hi Helen, sorry to be late with the replies, it's been busy here what with 'the leg ' and getting my list done! Where the McDonald's urge came from I have no idea, glad it's passed! Weather here is cloudy and chilly but at least the hens can be let out now. Coat on and down the garden for a chat with them. See you next time. xx
Another super vlog Penn....your album is beautiful and lovely to see all your pics from childhood,...looking forward to the next instalment...hugs x x x 🥰
Thank you for sharing with us, another lovely memory book. Tommy with the bidet did make me chuckle, your a special grandma. I love Herons there is something magical about them and so graceful, how lucky to have one land in your garden ❤
It was a surprise to see the Heron, I loved it. Tommy still loves water. I do want to do some more paper crafting but haven't had the opportunity lately. I feel something stirring in me soon I hope! xx
Hi Pene, lovely to see you and such a lovely episode. Thank you for sharing your journal, great to see the construction and hear all the stories, I remember some of them for chinwag with your mum. What a strong lady she was in her first property. X
Thanks Dawn, I did wonder about telling the stories again, Pete fast forwarded!! But heyho, it's part of the process of my journals. I'm itching to get started on the next one but holding myself back until the list and mending is done! Thanks for joining me, see you next time.
Thanks Anita, I'm starting to go through the photos and selecting the ones for the next journal - can't stop myself! It's a good time to do it as the weather in the SE is chilly, damp with patches of sunshine, not yet warm enough to sit in the garden. Enjoy your milkshakes!
Hello Penelope. Your journal holds such wonderful memories. It is so very pretty too. The jumper is coming along so well and I will look forward to seeing it when it is finished. I am really frightened of spiders and living in Australia where our spiders are very large, we have our house sprayed annually to keep them away. It is always a wonder how something that big can get into the house. Take care and enjoy the sunshine. xx
I thought that might be the case with the spiders. Great idea to spray the house. The temperatures are low here in the SE 8 - 10, the sun showing itself here and there. Eventually the warmer weather will come and we'll be able to sit in the garden with a book. See you next time. xx
Enjoyed your chinwag... Loved your memory journal. I especially chuckled at the "naturist" photo where you still had your shoes on! I liked that you read your journaling to us. 🥰❤️ Thank you for sharing your story 🫶💛💫🌟
Hi Pene Thanks for another interesting Chinwag ❤ Looking through your new journal was a delight with so many memories to share. I had to skip your interesting facts section this time when I saw it was about spiders …I can’t bear to even look at a picture of one, they terrify me 😮 We do have some very large ones living in our garden which occasionally come inside…ohh what a panic 😱,fortunately my husband is very happy to take care of them. I’m pleased that your weather has improved it does make a difference to our mental wellbeing 🌞 Take care and hope Pete is recovering well.
Thanks Tracey, I thought you might skip it which is why I only put a couple of pictures up. They didn't look like spiders because the spider mimics an ant, living with them and eating them at night. Genius! At last I think Pete's leg is on the mend but the weather is very up and down. Only 8 degrees yesterday! The daylight is much longer now which I love. See you next time
Hi Pene Thanks very much for the extra long episode, just for me. ;>) Loved it. The photos, your stories, your memory books, your great grandson and the bidet, all of it! My parents are going through their pictures and my dad wanted to throw them all away! Said since we didn't know our great grands and grands why would we want them? Crazy man! I'm spending the day with them tomorrow and will be showing them what you are doing with your family history. Hopefully Pete has won the battle regarding his leg, and you are both well by now. Take care. Looking forward to your next post!
I'm sure your great grands will want to know about your marching band and history and of course going back as far as they can. Hope you persuaded your dad! Pete's leg much better happy to say. See you soon.
That was lovely Pene. Thank you. As always you touch on so many things that are in my life. Boarding school, Austin 7, grandchildren, knitting, the beach, so many things! 😊
Lovely video, Pene!! Your journal is so pretty!! Enjoyed seeing the heron standing there and then take off. And Tommy is so cute. It was fun to watch him play. I hope Pete heals well real soon!
Thanks Debbie, Pete's leg is going in the right direction. I was pleased to film the heron, he looked so nervous, but I don't want him eating our newts! See you next time. xx
I was thinking how we had jotters for school and how we covered them in wall paper.lots of bright colours.I was born in 1960 and I still love children’s books .xxxx🐝🐝🐝🐝
The trip though you 0-5 journal was wonderful. Thank you! I hope your husband has recovered from his fall by now. Sometimes is makes me sad and impatient when I think of how much longer it takes for my body to heal in my seventies compared to when I was in my thirties. I’m very happy and grateful to be the age I am, but impatience with myself still creeps in there for me. Salam wa sa’aadah
Thanks for sharing my trip of 0-5. Pete went for an xray yesterday and is on different antibiotics to try and shift the inflammation which seem to be working. He's not too bad at all, it could have been much much worse. Yes, it's a bit of a shock when the seventies hit and things aren't as they were!
That's so true, after mum doing her episodes I realise that what she missed most was anywhere to put things. I can't remember wardrobes or cupboards in our flat and certainly not in the flats mentioned in this memory book, apart from the new one in Harlow. Her face lit up when she talked about that. Mum was a very tidy person - she needed to be!
Thank you for sharing your Journal. I was in the UK last week partially clearing my mother's home and found lots of photos of me and my parents and grandparents. Lots of unknown faces too. Still plenty more to sort through next time. Jane xx
How difficult it is to sort a home; I know you said your mum had thrown most of the photos. So pleased you found lots of them. Maybe your paper crafting will come in handy to help store them. It's a long way for you to come. My niece lives in CA and her baby is due on the 7th June. How difficult distance is sometimes. See you next time. xx
another wonderful video with the very creative you - thank you. re: anxiety, i do hear what you're saying, and think i do a fairly decent job managing my personal variety - it's the political arena over here that i'm at a loss for. you say, "if you've got a worry, you can do something about it....", yes - for me personally, but there isn't a damn thing i can do about a horrific excuse for a human being getting another shot at our presidency. i mean, i only have so much money to donate. anyway, always love to hear about arthropods! don't think i've mentioned i'm an entomologist - arachnids/spiders yes, great mimics, but they pale in comparison to the gob-smacking mimicry abilities of insects! can that baby be any more cute? love that he's playing in a bidet - too cute. cheers pene! libby
Wow, an entomologist, how fascinating - on to researching insects now! I agree some things we are powerless over but most worries we can do something about. Its about when worry and anxiety make you poorly. A healthy anger there about the presidency! Maybe there's a solution somewhere. Playing in the bidet is such therapy for the bigger things of life!!
You'd think the ants would catch on🤔.
Your sweater is gorgeous. The pattern of the honeycomb really makes the neutral color of the yarn look amazing, like it is two tones. 😘
I absolutely love how you combine photos and journaling to create these memory books. Photos alone don't tell the whole story. And the fabric selection is perfect.
Thanks for sharing. Now I need to get my device plugged in before it dies, go out and feed the chickens, then come back in and warm up with another cuppa. I need a to do list but just can't be bothered. I feel I am in limbo waiting for the weather to turn so I can be out in the garden. Lots to do out there but snow again today. This is bordering on ridiculous!
See you later. Tommy in the bidet, priceless🤗😍
I think the ants don't have great eyesight!
You're right about the honeycomb making the wool look two tones - another dimension.
I'm so enjoying the memory books. I just select what I want and then when I look at it afterwards I can see the reasoning behind what I've chosen - as a counsellor everything has meaning!!
At last we can let our chickens out here in the UK. They are loving it. I do so hope your weather improves soon. Snow still is ridiculous!
See you soon. xx
O wow penny that was so lovely. So many lovely things that you shared. Your photos and memories your beautiful garden and little tommy and the heron. Well done. You are so good at this. I love your little giggles too and your smile is the very same as when you were a small little girl. That was so lovely. Thank you
Thanks Helen, what lovely words you inspire me with. My pattern has arrived, so many thanks, will show you next time. xx
❤ I don't know anyone else who can talk about a bidet, ants, and photos down memory lane and enthral us all 😂 thank you x
I felt I needed to tell you it was polished clean before he played in it!!
Hi Pene. Thank-you for a lovely hour. The colour and honeycomb pattern work beautifully together. Looks like it's going to be super squishy and warm.
Really enjoyed going through your memory book. Such a special way to remember your childhood.
The aniexty chats have been so interesting. I'm having a few physical health problems at the moment. Which are affecting my mental health. Gone back to basics with all the coping strategies. Distracting myself with some shawl knitting.
Our daughter and husband celebrated their first wedding anniversary at the weekend. Where has that year gone!
Have a lovely week, take care. Xx
I agree where does time go! You're right, back to basics when things get tough with the coping strategies, hope things improve soon. Take care xx
Hello Pene you are quite right about the spiders here in Australia. I live in an area surrounded by the bush in the south of Sydney. We have some very dangerous spiders and also some useful ones. We often find Redback spiders in our garage and have to be very cautious when gardening because of other dangerous spiders. We’ve also had a few baby red bellied black snakes in our yard. It’s all part of living in this beautiful place. I loved the stories and photos in your memory book. I’m so glad I got to meet your Mum through watching Chinwag. I hope Pete recovers from his accident very soon. That Tommy is just the cutest little boy.
Hello Michelle, I don't think I'd have my affection for spiders if I lived where you do and as for snakes - well!! Pete is improving and I'm hoping another week will greatly improve things. I agree Tommy is a darling. xx
Hi Pene and thank you for your lovely company while I had a little break for a cup of tea and some knitting! I think today’s fascinating fact about the ant-impersonating spider is one of the most amazing ones that you’ve shared so far! I’m quite happy to be with spiders - it’s slugs that I’m less keen on!! I really chuckled at your sudden urge to have a MacDonald’s meal! And then at your conclusion that once very 25 years is enough! I’m in agreement with that. Thanks for all the making that you shared today, too, and the delightful water play! xx
Hi Helen, sorry to be late with the replies, it's been busy here what with 'the leg ' and getting my list done! Where the McDonald's urge came from I have no idea, glad it's passed! Weather here is cloudy and chilly but at least the hens can be let out now. Coat on and down the garden for a chat with them. See you next time. xx
Lovely to sit with you Pene whilst I'm faffing about crafting. I hope you find comfort from your journals, they're beautiful ❤️
I do Dawn, the process is very soothing. I'm also pleased to be making sense of piles of photographs. Love the shawl pattern btw. Thanks.
Another super vlog Penn....your album is beautiful and lovely to see all your pics from childhood,...looking forward to the next instalment...hugs x x x 🥰
Hi, lovely to share with you. Hopefully the post has arrived your end. xx
@@penelopeschinwag not yet but hopefully today….thanks again 😘 xxx
it arrived!! thanks again x x x
super, enjoy the knit. xx
Thank you for sharing with us, another lovely memory book. Tommy with the bidet did make me chuckle, your a special grandma. I love Herons there is something magical about them and so graceful, how lucky to have one land in your garden ❤
It was a surprise to see the Heron, I loved it. Tommy still loves water. I do want to do some more paper crafting but haven't had the opportunity lately. I feel something stirring in me soon I hope! xx
Hi Pene, lovely to see you and such a lovely episode. Thank you for sharing your journal, great to see the construction and hear all the stories, I remember some of them for chinwag with your mum. What a strong lady she was in her first property. X
Thanks Dawn, I did wonder about telling the stories again, Pete fast forwarded!! But heyho, it's part of the process of my journals. I'm itching to get started on the next one but holding myself back until the list and mending is done! Thanks for joining me, see you next time.
I really enjoyed your journal Pene and look forward to the next one. Hope Pete's leg is healing. I love a McDonald's banana milkshake. 🥰
Thanks Anita, I'm starting to go through the photos and selecting the ones for the next journal - can't stop myself! It's a good time to do it as the weather in the SE is chilly, damp with patches of sunshine, not yet warm enough to sit in the garden. Enjoy your milkshakes!
Hello Penelope. Your journal holds such wonderful memories. It is so very pretty too. The jumper is coming along so well and I will look forward to seeing it when it is finished. I am really frightened of spiders and living in Australia where our spiders are very large, we have our house sprayed annually to keep them away. It is always a wonder how something that big can get into the house. Take care and enjoy the sunshine. xx
I thought that might be the case with the spiders. Great idea to spray the house. The temperatures are low here in the SE 8 - 10, the sun showing itself here and there. Eventually the warmer weather will come and we'll be able to sit in the garden with a book. See you next time. xx
@@penelopeschinwag I hope it warms up for you very soon. 💐
well, it's turning out to be a lovely day, hooray. Enjoy yours too. xx
Enjoyed your chinwag... Loved your memory journal. I especially chuckled at the "naturist" photo where you still had your shoes on! I liked that you read your journaling to us. 🥰❤️ Thank you for sharing your story 🫶💛💫🌟
I know, it does look strange doesn't it. I still have my mum's words in my head 'let the air get to your body'! See you next time. xx
Hi Pene Thanks for another interesting Chinwag ❤
Looking through your new journal was a delight with so many memories to share.
I had to skip your interesting facts section this time when I saw it was about spiders …I can’t bear to even look at a picture of one, they terrify me 😮
We do have some very large ones living in our garden which occasionally come inside…ohh what a panic 😱,fortunately my husband is very happy to take care of them.
I’m pleased that your weather has improved it does make a difference to our mental wellbeing 🌞
Take care and hope Pete is recovering well.
Thanks Tracey, I thought you might skip it which is why I only put a couple of pictures up. They didn't look like spiders because the spider mimics an ant, living with them and eating them at night. Genius! At last I think Pete's leg is on the mend but the weather is very up and down. Only 8 degrees yesterday!
The daylight is much longer now which I love. See you next time
Thank you Penny, Tommy is a joy! And a handful I'm sure!
He has been a joy and still is of course. xx
That was lovely Pen
Thanks Glenda. xx
Hi Pene
Thanks very much for the extra long episode, just for me. ;>)
Loved it. The photos, your stories, your memory books, your great grandson and the bidet, all of it! My parents are going through their pictures and my dad wanted to throw them all away! Said since we didn't know our great grands and grands why would we want them? Crazy man! I'm spending the day with them tomorrow and will be showing them what you are doing with your family history. Hopefully Pete has won the battle regarding his leg, and you are both well by now. Take care. Looking forward to your next post!
I'm sure your great grands will want to know about your marching band and history and of course going back as far as they can. Hope you persuaded your dad! Pete's leg much better happy to say. See you soon.
That was lovely Pene. Thank you. As always you touch on so many things that are in my life. Boarding school, Austin 7, grandchildren, knitting, the beach, so many things! 😊
Great to share Sandra. xx
Lovely video, Pene!! Your journal is so pretty!! Enjoyed seeing the heron standing there and then take off. And Tommy is so cute. It was fun to watch him play. I hope Pete heals well real soon!
Thanks Debbie, Pete's leg is going in the right direction. I was pleased to film the heron, he looked so nervous, but I don't want him eating our newts! See you next time. xx
Hi Penny.. thank you for showing your childhood photos.. and sharing your album .. loved it .. best wishes
Thanks Di, lovely to hear from you and share my album. See you next time. xx
I was thinking how we had jotters for school and how we covered them in wall paper.lots of bright colours.I was born in 1960 and I still love children’s books .xxxx🐝🐝🐝🐝
Simple things bring such pleasure. I too loved how we covered our books and I love the special colours of the 50s. Thanks for the reminder. xxx
The trip though you 0-5 journal was wonderful. Thank you! I hope your husband has recovered from his fall by now. Sometimes is makes me sad and impatient when I think of how much longer it takes for my body to heal in my seventies compared to when I was in my thirties. I’m very happy and grateful to be the age I am, but impatience with myself still creeps in there for me. Salam wa sa’aadah
Thanks for sharing my trip of 0-5. Pete went for an xray yesterday and is on different antibiotics to try and shift the inflammation which seem to be working. He's not too bad at all, it could have been much much worse. Yes, it's a bit of a shock when the seventies hit and things aren't as they were!
What a lovely episode. We certainly have so much more today than our parents and grandparents did. 😊
That's so true, after mum doing her episodes I realise that what she missed most was anywhere to put things. I can't remember wardrobes or cupboards in our flat and certainly not in the flats mentioned in this memory book, apart from the new one in Harlow. Her face lit up when she talked about that. Mum was a very tidy person - she needed to be!
What a lovely book to have and hold 💙
Thanks Susan, I think it will become a treasure, better than the photos being in a box all higgledy piggledy.
Thank you for sharing your Journal. I was in the UK last week partially clearing my mother's home and found lots of photos of me and my parents and grandparents. Lots of unknown faces too. Still plenty more to sort through next time. Jane xx
How difficult it is to sort a home; I know you said your mum had thrown most of the photos. So pleased you found lots of them. Maybe your paper crafting will come in handy to help store them. It's a long way for you to come. My niece lives in CA and her baby is due on the 7th June. How difficult distance is sometimes. See you next time. xx
@@penelopeschinwag yes the photos were up in the loft!
Brilliant
another wonderful video with the very creative you - thank you. re: anxiety, i do hear what you're saying, and think i do a fairly decent job managing my personal variety - it's the political arena over here that i'm at a loss for. you say, "if you've got a worry, you can do something about it....", yes - for me personally, but there isn't a damn thing i can do about a horrific excuse for a human being getting another shot at our presidency. i mean, i only have so much money to donate. anyway, always love to hear about arthropods! don't think i've mentioned i'm an entomologist - arachnids/spiders yes, great mimics, but they pale in comparison to the gob-smacking mimicry abilities of insects! can that baby be any more cute? love that he's playing in a bidet - too cute. cheers pene! libby
Wow, an entomologist, how fascinating - on to researching insects now! I agree some things we are powerless over but most worries we can do something about. Its about when worry and anxiety make you poorly. A healthy anger there about the presidency! Maybe there's a solution somewhere. Playing in the bidet is such therapy for the bigger things of life!!