Not a moment to spare...

I don't have a lot to report. I've been working hard, piecing a Christmas quilt for Daughter 2. It still needs sashing and borders, not to mention being actually made into a quilt. I'm slightly running out of time - Christmas waits for no woman. Oh, I've just noticed that one of these panels is missing a bottom strip. Will sort that tomorrow. 

This was the inspiration. Can't remember where I saw it. 

At the same time - well, not the same time, but on the same days - I've been quilting a quilt for Mr L,  made out of his old shirts. 

And the choir of which I'm chair takes up quite a lot of time. On Sunday we had our AGM, and there was a certain amount of complication about getting some new people on the committee. So that was a lot of work in various ways. And now I need to get some new committee members up to speed. However, I've only got another year of being chair, so the end is in sight. 

Altogether there hasn't been much spare time, or any time to tidy up the garden for the winter. Hey ho. 

 Not much minimalising this week, but it's something: a roll of elderly sticky-backed plastic which appeared out of a cupboard, and some spoons for feeding babies with sloshy food. Don't need them any more, alas. Little and often, that's the way to minimalise. Or so I tell myself. 

And now I must go and do my Duolingo. I've been polishing up my French and German for about three years now, and added Scottish Gaelic about six months ago. I did know a tiny bit of Gaelic already, having done some in an evening class with my dad in 1972, and ironically that tiny bit is still with me, whereas the bit I'm trying to learn is much harder. Older brain! The worst thing is the spelling. The Gaelic for "I'm learning" is "Tha mi ag ionnsachadh". "Tha mi" means "I am". That's the easy bit!