General Chat

As I've said before, OH belongs to a sewing/craft group that meets every week.

Unfortunately, one of the group has had to go into a permanent care unit with no prospect of being able to take part in the group's activities.

That being said, the DIL of that member advised the group that she would open her MIL's Unit at 3.00pn yesterday (Saturday) and that any interested group members could help themselves to any of the materials etc which were in the Unit.

Once that deadline had passed all materials, fabrics etc would be taken to the tip

The various sewing machines were off limits given there value which ran into the thousands of dollars.

So yesterday OH took two other members of the group with her to see what was available. Other members of the group also went but travelled separately.

On arriving back home, it took us a good few minutes to empty the car!

A photo taken just prior to leaving the unit showed the car crammed with all the 'salvageable' items liberated by gallant group members.

I'm assuming, that as my wife had taken the photo, the other two ladies were in there somewhere, but I couldn't see them.

OH had cottons, fabrics, rolls of special backing materials (at a retail price of $18.00 per metre) and the list went on, complete with many items of lacework, many of which had won prizes at the local Agricultural Shows

I reckon that she came back with several hundred dollars worth of items.

I don't know ow much material etc was taken by the other members of the group, but if was as much as OH returned with then I'm sure that if the DIL had sold it on the open market she could have made a couple of grand easily :-S



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