The fancy dress costume fits. It may just need taking in a nip and tuck here and there, but otherwise my Mistress thinks it\u2019s perfect. I don\u2019t think she should be allowed out in it without having at least me to chaperone her. Now she is just trying to work out whether the tube of fake tan that she bought some years ago, will still work. Can\u2019t you tell that she doesn\u2019t do things like this very often!<\/p>\n
We have also had some good news on the willow weaving front. A friend in the village is sending for some willow so we are ordering some for us too. I might even get chance to have a go this time. I\u2019m not absolutely sure how my Mistress proposes to soak the willow as I think someone might object if it is in the bath for three to four days, but we\u2019ll cross that bridge when we come to it.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how this fits with willow weaving, cooking and gardening, but my Mistress has decided that her \u2018mid-life crisis\u2019 will begin a week on Sunday. She is working on the basis that after that she can no longer say she is in her early forties and the next looming milestone will be fifty. She also thinks it unlikely that she will live much past ninety and therefore if she doesn\u2019t start soon then she will be too late. She is taking two poems as her inspiration, Nadine Stair\u2019s \u2018If I had my life to live over\u2019 and Jenny Joseph\u2019s \u2018Warning\u2019. The first one says she would fuss less about the stuff that doesn\u2019t matter and \u2018pick more daisies\u2019 and the second says she would let her hair down more and \u2018wear purple\u2019. Now, on the basis that my Mistress already wears purple and picks daisies, I am wondering what else she is going to do. The Nadine Stair poem was used in a Harley Davidson advert. You don\u2019t suppose she\u2019s going to get a Harley do you? She\u2019d need a sidebar for me if she did!<\/p>\n
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