Difficulties and delights

The last few days have thrown up problem after problem, today we were hoping to sort out a few things but it wasn't to be. We realised one of our small black cats was behaving very oddly,as one of our neighbour's cats died recently and another became ill we were very concerned All else had to be put on hold and we took her to the vets. The vet was wonderful ,she knows our cats quite well as they are all ex farm cats and came from very unhealthy backgrounds. They seem to have been in and out of the vets so often. This time the symptoms were extremly worrying, she has been given all sorts and we have to phone the vet tomorrow if there is no improvment.
When the postman came he brought me the lovely rag rug in the picture. It was made by Beryl Daws. a friend from England . Beryl is the person who first inspired me to sew. I saw an exibition of her work and loved it so much I found her phonenumber , contacted her and she showed me the basic steps to enable me to start trying .If you type her name into the internet her web page comes up. She makes wonderful things, well worth looking at.

A chicken in the kitchen and trying to work.

Yesterday became very complicated as one of the chickens found the way in to the kitchen through the cat flap. She has been ill for days and not eating so very thin, I cooked pasta for her and she did eat a bit and it must of done some good because she began to walk around. But now she has found the cats flap the kitchen is where she wants to be. The cats are nonplussed as she spends some time guarding the cat flap and squawks loudly if they try to come in or go out. All this means I have to keep coming down from my workroom to sort her out!!I don't want to shut the 3 cats out and I don't want to shut her in. Maybe today she will find it boring in there?
I made two more little purses and then began to play with my boxes of bits and pieces resulting in the 3 hearts. They were fun to make so might make a few more today if there is more trouble in the kitchen.