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Quick update!

 Life has been rather busy recently. Firstly, I was asked to quilt a quilt for a sewing friend of mine, and that meant getting to grips (or as I call it - playing) with my new machine! My friend was delighted with the results, and I was also very pleased. Quite a few other people from my group were impressed, and at the time they were suggesting they may be calling on me!


It was good fun to be able to practise this my skills a bit more, and I included some simple ruler work in it this time - using the rulers to create straight lines at a distance from each other - creating channels to do more FMQ work in (FMQ - Free Motion Quilting).

Last week some North Devon Rebels met up, and had a good chat - and we’ve set a date for our next meet up too. I’m counting this as one of my scary things for the Carpe Diem badge, as I find that meeting people I don’t know brings about some anxiety, even when you are looking forward to it, and excited by it.

I’ve been looking at the Rebel Health Check - but I think I’ve completed it - some of the items listed I’ve been doing as part of the Good Habits badge, and I see the optician every year for my contact lenses - a bit more often recently as I’m getting to the age where I need reading glasses….but I’ll write that up in more detail in another blog post.

I’ve tentatively started World Traveller, - and I’m still going with DuoLingo - I’m day 83 now, and this is my third week in the Obsidian League.

I’ve been going swimming every week - Wild Swimming (in the sea, which for me doesn’t seem very wild, as it is something I did regularly when growing up, but hey ho - I’m happy to count it!) - so it looks like I’m doing the Wild Swimming badge. Not sure how good an idea this is for me, as I don’t have a great track record with my feet and swimming…previously when walking / swimming to a small island for a geocache I managed to cut the side of my foot. 10 days ago I went swimming off the slipway - well, we walked off the slipway to find somewhere to put our stuff, and the water was deeper than I thought, and big waves pushed me on to rocks that resulted in a couple of rather bruised toes. If that wasn’t enough, yesterday after swimming we went to have a look in some rock pools, and in doing so (barefoot as the crocs had rubbed my foot the day before), I slipped a little - and somehow bashed my other foot on some rocks - resulting in a fair amount of blood and difficulty walking - can’t really see what I’ve done, but it is possible that I’ve torn the nail off. So currently trying to rest it as much as possible, as I’m going to have to get back to running at some point this week - I’ve signed up to some races (finally) and I need to get some miles in 😁. I think the foot injuries are trying to remind me that I’m not as young as I used to be, and I need to take more care.



On a more positive note - at the weekend I completed my 50th ParkRun! Off to do some more badge work now - back soon!

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