Works on the way

I've finished piecing the Lorna pink quilt top. I'm thinking that maybe I need a nice fat border on it. It is big enough to lie on top of our double bed, but not much overhang. I'm also thinking about the backing. Should I use a cotton sheet as the backing? Something nice and big that won't need to be pieced together to fit.
I really like the Cosy Cotton batting. It's beautifully flat and soft, and the finish it gives is like a beloved worn old blanket. It scrunches up nicely and folds perfectly. Problem is..this quilt looks like something off John Denver's Grandma's feather bed. Maybe I should be using batting with high puffosity. Stay tuned for the next thrilling installment..yawn.
My little patio tomato plant is booming. It's a chunky clump of a bush and covered in tasty green tommies. The guard chicken is doing her job like a champ. Everything in that tiny plot is growing splendidly.
Pepper chose Mumma Mia from the vid shop last night. What a stinker! D threatened to leave home but I think he enjoyed it more than I did.
Mackie's friend Emma is here today. They have known eachother since birth. They are going to different schools next year. I hope they can stay friends. I hope that Mackie makes some ACE friends and that he's revitalised by the changes that come. I know I made the best friends ever when I started year 7. Life long ones. We shared so many funny years of teenager-dom. When we get together now I love the fact that they know about all those cringeworthy events that made me what I am today. I am looking forward to a new pool of kids. Some of the friendship groups have become so set and unchanging in the course of the primary years. Some kids who are fantastic and vital can still find themselves drifting and excluded and it's heartbreaking and incomprehensible to see. Bring on the new blood I say.
I am enjoying the ultimate unsociable behaviour right now. I am very sociable. Often I feel as if it my duty to entertain everyone or at least keep things bubbling along in the household. When the kids complain of being bored I feel the criticism cutting me to the quick. I agree that they should experience boredom and then have the thrill of discovering an activity for themselves, maybe be creative! They fall so easily into the loving arms of technology to relieve boredom and that shits me! So, after banging my head against a brick wall to get a bit of chat going in the house, I have decided to embrace Martha Wainright and Vampire Weekend and Lisa Miller on my i-pod. Mix it up and blog away! Enjoy my own bit of technology.