My Warrior Friends Fundraiser

Avril is a beautiful girl (inside and out) struck down by chronic Lyme disease and multiple co infections. She is now at the stage where she is being cared for, has exhausted all treatment available in Ireland and now needs help from the kindness of strangers to fund her last hope of treatment in Germany.

It's her birthday next month, so wouldn't it be great if say 1000 people donated €10 each to her Fundraiser!!?    #fundraising #Lymedisease #medical

She has a blog and runs social media pages as a distraction/hobby and makes no income from them.  So if you want to read her story or blog, please do and be kind if you must comment.   It's difficult enough battling an illness without having to deal with rude and ignorant people.

I can thank my lucky stars, that with all the tick bites I've had over the years I haven't been struck down by the disease.  Yes I suffer from chronic pain and it's exhausting, but there are loads out there worse off than me.  I'm grateful I can still do little things that most people take for granted, even if they do them daily and I only do them once a week!

Dish Scrubbers

I went into the local yarns store the other week looking for crochet cotton, as I am wanting to take myself out of my comfort zone a little.  Plus I've been wanting to try some fine crochet for a while now, just not brave enough to tackle it.  However they never had any, no surprise there.  Seems knitting and knitwear isn't on trend..... 

Anyhow we talked about some yarns, bobble, Donegal etc then I saw this odd one at the counter.  Turned out to be a yarn for making either a dish cleaner or hand mitt for washing yourself (like the little exfoliating gloves you can buy).  So I thought why not, I'm sick of the scourer sponges, bits sticking in the pan lids and not environmental either being disposable.

I made four from one ball.  I've found them to be very effective during the wash up, which was a pleasant surprise.  I'm a convert!  I picked up the last ball in the shop in Blue and got 5 out of it.  I've sent one to my mum, who put it to use right away and told me it was wonderful for the wash up!

Give the Bees a helping hand

It's that time of year that the bees are out and busy.  However they sometimes need a little help from us humans.

Last year I saw far too many exhausted bees on the roadside and it's not like I can carry a load of lids and sugary water with me (as much as I would like to).  I'd probably get reported for littering the main road - the irony of that, considering the amount or rubbish there is out there!

Anyway a while back, I found a bee on the front lawn when I came back from walking the dog.  It was completely exhausted. 

I quickly went inside to fetch a lid and sugared water for the poor thing.  As you can see it crawled up on the dandelion as I was putting the dish out, so I put a few drops on the flower head and left it to it.

It did the job, as there was no sign of the bee later when I fetched the dish.

We really don't want to lose the Bees from the planet.  So plant a pot of flowers in the garden!