Basketwork

Many years ago I blogged about the expression "Basketwork" meaning a Friday afternoon lesson where children just work on paper, and at the end of the day, it is just screwed up [unmarked] and put in the waste basket. Not an activity I would ever do with the children!

This week I have been doing different 'basketwork'

I have three laundry baskets, the brown one I got in 1977 when I had my first flat, then two larger grey ones I got in the 80's when two growing children added considerably to my washload. I admit to not being very diligent about pitting away laundry, and sometimes one basket is full of last week's 'dry washing to be put away' a second is 'stuff to be ironed sometime' and the third is in use carrying this week's washing between the machine and the whirligig dryer, or the Drying Rack in the Futility Room. Bob clearly had a few 'formal' events in the last fortnight, as there were more shirts than usual in the brown ironing basket. I did get them done though [whilst catching up with Strike]

I put away all the other washing, and used one of the big grey baskets for my wrapped Christmas presents. That job is[almost] done and dusted now.

My sewing basket has been full too...I have been working on my CoverStory stitching this week. Rosie has asked for a bowtie for Cat-Cat [her bedtime toy since she was a baby] and in November George requested pjs for TeddyDinosaur and Kezzie commissioned an embellished teeshirt for a colleague who wears different festive outfits all through the last weeks of the Christmas Term.

This was a fun challenge- as requested,  I embroidered a crown with snowflakes and Christmas Clothing Queen then added sparkly ribbon trim, five colourful pompoms, and lots of spangles and sequins. Then I appliqued it to the front of the teeshirt Kezzie had sent me. That is now safely in Essex.

Then there's the shopping basket [I suppose technically called a trolley, or if you are in the USA, a cart] Bob kindly came with me for the Big Shop yesterday - which began with an early start and bacon baps in Costa! Mainly Aldi then a top-up in the Sainsbury's across the road. Mostly OK, we stuck diligently to our carefully planned list.

 But for the 3rd time in a row, I had to have a rescan. I am beginning to suspect the Smartshop App on my phone is dodgy - every time, the final item appears to have not scanned properly. Bob said to the assistant that he had been watching me and seen me scan each item - and if I was trying to con them, surely it would be on the large chicken, not the tube of toothpaste. She was really nice about it, and suggested next time I should use a handset, and possibly uninstall and reinstall the app on my phone. I still felt like a criminal though.

As we unloaded the bags into the car, the pot of cream split! That was a bit messy to say the least. But otherwise I think we have more than enough food for the festive family feasting.