A Big Week in Small Ways

 

As a consolation that there was no college for Nella on Monday, we went to the cinema in the afternoon and saw “Our Ladies” - a Scottish film about girls behaving badly on a school trip to Edinburgh. It was a great film actually, in a typically British understated way but with lots of swearing and drinking. The upshot was that it made Nella realise that she is missing having a fun, teenage life having no friends due to anorexia. She sees that she must try to recover, even though it is incredibly difficult to get her brain to agree. 

Nella was very nervous about her first day in education for 2 years but she really enjoyed it. She found it hard to get to know the other people on the course as there were strict social distancing rules, face-masks and no introductions. She did make a friend for the day but was unnerved when the girl did not have any lunch, realising that was not a good influence. Nella was thrilled to come home with homework, deadlines and a sense of purpose. 

She is nowhere near ready to start eating freely but is willing to set herself more food challenges so we went out for brunch on Saturday, followed by a trip to Hobbycraft to buy sketchbooks. 

I managed to do a couple of simple customer quilts during the week and allowed myself to enjoy some late summer sun in the afternoon with a cup of tea. A fun job was to apply decals to the Bernina 710 to make it look like a special edition. I ordered them on Etsy and they were quite easy to fit - amazingly, there was only one small crinkle. 

We are still trying to perfect overnight sourdough bread in a dutch oven. This week the loaf looked fantastic but was the bread was quite wet so I will add less water and / or bake for longer. When (if) I get it right, I will jot down the definitive recipe;)