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Friday, May 1, 2015

Friday Night with Friends...

Last night was FNwF; lots of people around the world working on projects and then sharing via our blogs. 
My evening turned out to be a little different to what I had expected. Yesterday, my part of Queensland was deluged by heavy rains which caused flash flooding in some areas. The road north was cut off in a number of places due to water over bridges etc. DD1 rang as she was leaving work asking if she could come to our place as she couldn't get home...her housemate was in the same predicament so she would be comng to us as well. I raced around changing bedding and bathroom cleaning, but I could have taken my time as the traffic was in gridlock...a 10 minute drive took nearly 2 hours. In that time J's (DD1's housemate) car had broken down and a police officer had helped push it to the side of the road. My wonderful DH went to 'rescue' J and eventually we had both girls home here. There were lots of tears, but hot showers, dry clothes, food and red wine soon helped. 
The girls took a 'selfie'...they were dressed in track pants and some new T shirts of DH's...they looked so cute in the 'big clothes' :-)
Eventually the girls and I sat down in the lounge room and I started my FNwF crafting...
This month it was crocheting again...I've continued to take small/tiny squares and make them bigger. The pile of 10 inch squares was growing, when another K4BN member dropped in last Wednesday with some donations, including some crocheted squares. This meant that I almost had enough squares to make a new blanket...
Yvette's lovely squares..

Last night I enlarged the last few squares and with the 9 from Yvette, I had the 30 that I needed.


The pile of tiny squares is getting smaller...

And I even started to crochet the squares into strips...

Update on the girls...J's car still won't start and the RACQ is unable to attend to all calls, so the girls have gone home to Griffin in DD1's car and will continue to call the RACQ number. It's a lovely sunny day and the washing machine is working hard!