Posted by Helen
When Nana and Grandad were over last I took the opportunity to do some jobs I’d been putting off like sorting out my towels and bed linen.
I spent a very happy morning sorting and folding and best of all I found a couple of old sheets just begging to be repurposed. Hmm, what would Tom like for his birthday? A teepee…
Unfortunately I’ve lost a fair few grey cells since passing my A-levels, so I resorted to cutting out bits of paper to get the proportions right (which was much more fun than doing calculations!) before attacking my sheet. I decided pale blue wasn’t very authentic and certainly not muddy garden friendly so I opted for dying it brown. (we may live in France but summers are far from being long, hot and dry!)
Well it turned out more murky green, but that’s fine too. Now came the challenge – getting it to stand up….
OK, I admit it, one of my faults is being convinced that my way is going to be better than anyone else’s!! I’m stubborn, independent, don’t like asking for help… yeh, yeh, I know. This often leads me to lots of lost hours going round in ever decreasing circles, when I could have just asked someone else for help and got it finished in half the time. But do I learn? Do I heck!
So after hours of struggling with garden canes and string and elastic (of course this was the eve of Tom’s birthday – we don’t do things in advance round here!) we managed to prop it up long enough for him to open his presents, but with a firm resolve this time to ask for help.
Any ideas??
