Chez Budsmam

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Florence 2024 day 2

So farewell dinky but slightly spooky hotel, you did the job, even though i got annoyed with the unecessary high tech stuff

Hmmmmm

😱😱😱 cmon!!!!

OK I eventually got on the flight we were delayed by about 30 mins then another 20 mins while a poor lass who had a boarding pass had to stand-up front because they had double booked her and she wasn't on the manifest ... eventually they got her sorted ! Plane took off about an hour late that's OK we got to Florence airspace and started to descend but at the last minute he pulled up 🤔🤔🤔

He came over the tannoy the tail winds were too fierce so he was diverting us to Pisa 🤦‍♀️ you could not make it up 🤣

Landed inspiration and they said they would lay on a bus but it would take an hour to organise plus it was going to Florence airport I wanted to get into Florence, so I hot footed it to the train station got a lovely wee train and probably got into Florence at the same time folks would have been boarding bus in Pisa!

What a palaver! But nice train ride

In my excitement I almost got off at the wrong station in Florence 🤣🤣

Anyhow I'm in Florence 🎉🎉🎉

I have to rethink all my plans now! Hey ho I'm here that's the main thing, found my hotel run by nuns! Lovely room not an ipad in sight 😊

Florence 2024 day 1

OMG all the excitement 😊😊😊 first visit to Florence since 2019.

My capsule wardrobe 😊 and yes I'll be staying with nuns!!

I bought this in Florence in 2019 its my holiday adventure notebook, second one 😊 I must buy no 3 ❤️

Ahhh next time must remember to check when mercury is in retrograde 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ oh sigh

My next flight was booked for the next day so I booked into a hotel and had to exit schipol, using this thing hurts every time 🙄

OK cute dinky wee hotel!! All the high tech stuff a bit annoying but hey its 5 mins from airport so I'll put up with it!

Made sure to stock up on essentials at airport 🤣🤣

Eventually got through to nuns to make sure hotel was still ok for tomorrow, so funny they had to get a poor English speaking guest to translate she was so jetlagged wee soul, hey ho could be worse 😆😆

Wednesday 10 April 2024

Dear Jane update

Well time for a Dear Jane update! And what an update! I had stopped making blocks hadnt made any for almost a year. It sat there looking at me all sad ... so I chatted with a chum about it and it clarified that it was the black sashing which I didn't like. So what to do? 2 options, binbit or unpick.... I decided on the unpicking option, I wanted to now sash them with the same colour as the background to give a more muted effect. Thankfully I have kept a note of each block 🤣🤣 so nothing could go wrong 🤞

After the unpicking the new sashing commenced

Evidence of unpicking 🤭🤭

and here we are! What a difference 😊 most pleased, instagram agreed too! Almost fully half way, wonder how much further I can get this year?

Sunday 7 April 2024

Seasons 2024 April

Hmmmm, no idea why this picture is so big? Ah blogger you never cease to confound me 🤣

So, whats the verdict on April? Yes way more light and also the trees are blooming, not much on the ground but we had snow yesterday so that's not surprising but just looking at the difference gives me a boost, and lord only knows that's needed!

January