Three Good Things

Very good news and lemon cheesecake is lovely x

Lovely to see your grandchildren growing up and attending school 

I am hoping my daughter gets pregnant soon x

Thanks for your kind words Tvman. I certainly was very proud of my grand kids and it also ticked off a couple of boxes on my bucket list.

Take care,  Tom.

These are 3 excellent things, 2 of which I long to see happen to me.

Well done Tom I'm very pleased for you. 

Hello Ulls, Yes, I did share it and it went down well. We've got half left, so husband will probably polish off. I made a Blackberry sauce (from our garden) to go with it which worked really well. Glad to hear you are doing your bit to ensure there is no food waste in your house. Keep it up.

Rainie x

Lovely milestones and a lovely holiday to look forward to. Keep on making good memories. Rainie x

Hi Rainie, I'm pleased your cake went down well, my heart bleeds for your husband having to finish it off, Will have to clean drool of my phone at the thought. Read your other thread about setting up an art group, I am not an artist, but I like to do calligraphy, hope your group goes well. Off to find a screen wipe, all the best Ulls

Calligraphy is a very creative pursuit Ulls. I remember at school we used to do this to practice our writing with a proper fountain pen. When we got to the stage of doing perfectly formed letters, we used to colour in all the different spaces created. It used to end up looking like a stained glass window and I loved doing it. Does anyone else remember doing that? It would be lovely to see some of your calligraphy on the art thread, as text is often used as part of mixed media art. Rainie x

Hi 

When I was in primary school, I learned writing in italics using a proper fountain pen. (One with a nib that made upstrokes thin and downstrokes thick.) It seemed that I impressed my teacher so I was entered into a couple of nationwide writing competitions, along with one or two others to represent the school (unfortunately we never won anything although we had a special mention that made us and the school proud.

I was asked also to tutor others in a different class which gave me kudos within the school . Unfortunately whilst I was doing that, the rest of my class were learning joined up handwriting. Consequently I had to try to teach myself and to this day my handwriting is best described as a scrawl. 

Take care and stay safe Rainie.

Tvman xx

Maybe our handwriting suffers because we've all stopped, well most of us, using fountain pens with nibs. I know if I use a biro my writing is rubbish, but when I use a fine rollerball it goes back to normal i.e. you can read it!  Rainie x