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r way what could have been an awkward moment turned into a little jewel of connection in the middle of an ordinary day i m trying to pay more attention to these little moments posted by blue hands at 17 18 no comments labels mindfulness thursday 4 january 2018 the long haul steve and i have been married for 45 years no i can t believe it either surely we re still in our carefree twenties i ve been intrigued over the past few weeks to start noticing the artefacts many of them wedding presents that have made the journey with us it s probably no surprise that stainless steel flatware would survive and no doubt outlast us just as my parents silverware survived them and came into our possession we love this norwegian maya cutlery and have six place settings which we use mainly for special occasions there was a period when it came into everyday use but the teaspoons vanished one by one as teaspoons mysteriously do and proved difficult scarce and prohibitively expensive to replace we were amused and gratified a few years ago when visiting an exhibition of twentieth century scandinavian design in glasgow to discover that our knives and forks were featured as design classics there are also quite a number of kitchen items still in regular use that date from 1972 this well used yellow canister contains porridge oats this bright yellow lemon squeezer shows no signs of age but this enamelled roasting dish has a more venerable appearance and these sundry utensils have lost their paint but are still perfectly serviceable who knew that pyrex is so long lasting these all came as part of a set some have been broken we also have pyrex measuring jugs so well used that the measurement details have worn away they have been demoted to my studio for dyeing and felt making this glass decanter is sadly marred by limescale but i love its fat bellied shape and the gorgeous heavy stopper we re book hoarders so many of our books predate our marriage but there are three that were actually wedding presents or given to us at that time perfect cooking by the marvellous marguerite patten future shock by alvin toffler and the oxford book of english verse textiles are not renowned for their longevity but this irish linen double damask tablecloth impossible to photograph has made the journey it really only comes out for christmas and family celebrations but is special to me because it was a gift from my irish uncle and is covered in symbols of irish history a double bonus of irish heritage and mind boggling textile skill my make do and mend personality is demonstrated by the backing fabric of this quilt once upon a time it was a yellow bed sheet back in the day habitat had fantastic deep dyed bedlinen and we had two duvet and sheet sets in bright yellow and royal blue over time they wore out and went out of fashion not necessarily in that order but i still had a yellow sheet available for the dye bath when i wanted to finish this quilt about ten years ago clearly many things that started out on the journey with us have worn out or been discarded en route we are looking a little careworn ourselves i really can t do selfies and i hate having my photo taken so this is true love but somehow or another we re both still here still married still friends not thrown away if you know me well you know that i m not a great one for sentimental language or expressions of love but i am grateful for our mutual perseverance and loyalty and the love that has fuelled them we re also really grateful for the things that have been added to us over the years notably three lovely daughters their husbands and six grandchildren plus dozens of wonderful friends posted by blue hands at 16 10 3 comments labels anniversary family marriage friday 7 august 2015 crystal clear i had breakfast in the bath this morning which is something i haven t done very often since moving to our current home twelve years ago this is partly because we now have an adequate shower and partly because we no longer live in a house with bathroom and kitchen on the same level which made the process of making breakfast while the bath was running a less risky affair anyway whatever it triggered memories of that former house and former times and as i lowered my head under the surface and my ears filled up with water it triggered another reminder i have been a hearing aid user for fifteen years this is probably not an anniversary i expect to celebrate but it is worthy of some thought and reflection i was fifty when i acquired my first analogue hearing aid having requested a hearing check earlier that year unusually i think i was one of those people who became aware of my hearing loss before other people started insisting my father gradually lost his hearing as he got older and i had strong memories of the period before he succumbed to testing while he insisted that we had all started mumbling a lot of people are familiar with the process of having spectacles prescribed and the process of the optician flipping lenses asking which one is better sight correction is a careful and precise art hearing correction is less so the process has been improved by digital hearing aids which can be adjusted to some extent to accommodate the type of hearing loss but basically a hearing aid is a small loudspeaker positioned behind the ear with a plastic ear mould inside the ear it can take a very long time to get used to a first hearing aid to start with the sensation of having a large foreign object in the ear is very pronounced it feels like having a bad head cold and can make you feel as if your nose is blocked as well as your ears then the sounds it amplifies are unfiltered by the brain going out from the hushed hearing aid clinic into a busy street feels like a sensory assault and flushing the loo sounds like a waterfall being unleashed from a dam in the first year of having my hearing aid i frequently felt so desperate that i took it out and felt it wasn t helping it took a talking to from one of the audiologists at the clinic to make me persevere with wearing the aid all the time and really start to get the benefit from it i now have two digital hearing aids which are programmed to my particular hearing loss which also have special settings to cope with noisy environments and for listening via loop systems i am well used to wearing them from the time i get up until i settle down to sleep at night but they are not without their problems and difficulties batteries don t last very long and frequently give up the ghost at inconvenient moments plastic tubing pops out of place and is difficult to realign an enthusiastic hug from a friend can cause shrill feedback if my ear is covered i try not to think about the time i sleepily removed my hearing aids at night and carefully dropped them into my water glass not realising until the morning that they had been immersed in water all night the simple fact is that hearing aids don t replace normal hearing even with the amplification of my aids i need the television louder than other people clarity is lost and i frequently mishear or fail to understand what people say i can t join in desultory chat amongst a group of people making conversation across a room i can t earwig on conversations in buses and cafes i have more or less given up trying to listen to my beloved radio 4 and hardly ever click on video or music links on the computer because the effort of setting up the earphones and taking out the hearing aids to listen rarely seems worth the effort certain voices are more difficult to catch than others children s voices for example are very light and not always clear so i sometimes miss out on conversation with my grand children other people s attitudes to deafness are very interesting i m not stone deaf so on the whole i haven t encountered rudeness or exasperation from people outside the family i ve never been embarrassed by wearing hearing aids and always make people aware that i have hearing difficulty so that they don t think i m being rude or ignoring them if i don t respond appropriately to something they say family and friends are good at asking me where i would prefer to sit in cafes and restaurants and at relaying instructions to me in public places when i can t hear the speaker in domestic situations with my nearest and dearest it s not always the same story i know that it s not easy communicating with someone who s hard of hearing i had years of trying to make myself understood by my dad who could be pretty haphazard in his use of hearing aids and there were definitely times when i gave up and decided the effort of repeating myself just wasn t worth it on the other hand as the deafened person one soon becomes aware of the tutting and rolled eyes of an impatient family member being asked to repeat themself of the exaggerated raised voice and slow enunciation as if talking to an idiot i have been known to become upset and angry so have they apart from these irritations i think these days that i m pretty well adjusted to using my aids i certainly couldn t manage without them somehow though hearing loss isn t normalised in my life it s still a problem and an irritation something i would prefer not to have to think about and deal with apparently a fifteenth anniversary is a crystal anniversary posted by blue hands at 17 56 no comments labels family friends health hearing memory wednesday 3 june 2015 slow stitch i m working on an enjoyable piece of stitching at the moment just working organically grabbing a scrap of fabric and butting it up against another and rhythmically stitching them together even the backing is made a scraps of quilt wadding that i m cobbling together as i go along i really don t know where this is going to end up i m just enjoying making it happen posted by blue hands at 15 14 1 comment labels embroidery recycling stitch thursday 10 july 2014 a sideways look i always enjoy the joke of the signs on these shutter garage doors at spike island studios from one direction it reads if you walk in the opposite direction you are instructed but if you look at the doors face on the message is not so clear which just goes to show that facing things head on may not always be the best strategy some things only make sense with a sideways look posted by blue hands at 21 44 1 comment labels art bristol philosophy friday 20 june 2014 a quilt for a little girl j has just had her fourth birthday she is moving house this summer a joyful quilt for her bed seemed in order this is what i made she seems to like it posted by blue hands at 11 54 no comments labels family quilts sunday 9 march 2014 uxorious uxorious is a strange and rather ugly word to describe a man who loves his wife its root is the latin word uxor wife where it is used at all in modern english it may take a slightly pejorative tone implying a slightly cringe worthy devoted love or it may be misused entirely in his book levels of life julian barnes says i bridle at the misuse of the adjective uxorious if we don t look out it will come to describe a man who has many wives or even that dubious phrase a lover of women it doesn t mean this it describes and always will whatever future dictionaries may permit a man who loves his wife my father was an uxorious man devoted to my mother he delighted in buying her clothes and was quite dapper on his own account it therefore follows that when in his later years he gave me a sum of money for my birthday or christmas present i generally spent it on clothes since his death i have missed the ritual of the birthday card with a cheque and the self indulgent shopping spree so i have a new birthday ritual which is to go out on that shopping spree anyway with my own money to buy something that i think of as being from him i am lucky to have an uxorious husband who takes pleasure in buying me clothes for my birthday too so this year i have indulged in two lovely pieces of fair trade clothing from my pa a block printed tunic dress by accacia from chandni chowk which pleases the natural dye geek in me by having a swing ticket enumerating the dyes used alizarin indigo madder cassis iron pomegranate turmeric and from steve this rather lovely summery retro styled number from people tree it s not even my birthday yet but the current sunny weather is making me look forward to venturing out in my new threads thanks chaps posted by blue hands at 17 43 no comments labels birthday clothes dyeing fair trade family older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me blue hands bristol united kingdom view my complete profile my blog list one day like this lemonade on the run 10 hours ago stuck in a book a little stranger by candia mcwilliam abookadayinmay day 12 18 hours ago bigdaddystevieb club cricket in the sun 3 days ago needled breaking away 4 days ago cornflower books august s books 2 years ago cornflower folded cuffs 2 years ago love those cupcakes still catching up 2 years ago oyster and pearl 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