The Tea Room Diaries

What an exciting day today, I received a letter that is one of 12  (will be one a month for 12 months) that I ordered back in December - let me explain. During a scrolling session through Facebook back in December I came across a sponsored spot that was about receiving a letter once a month that was from yesteryear and they were from the US. However I was tentative regarding the price they were asking - postage to Australia was a big factor. Anyway, a couple of days later I found another spot for a similar thing and it was here in our own country and the postage was free!!

I signed up for the subscription and eagerly awaited my first letter that was to be posted last Friday, 14th January. It has been a long wait, and in the meantime I purchased a lovely single serve teapot and cup that I proposed to use out in the garden to read my letters.

I found on the website of the Tea Room Diaries what I would receive for my money over the twelve months.

I have been watching their site over the last week or two and in a photo they posted I actually saw my letter ready to be posted.

Well today ..... I received my first letter and it was wonderful to sit in my 'special spot' in the garden, having made myself a lovely cup of tea, and read my letter. It is everything that I thought it would be.

This first letter is the beginning of the 'diary' of Doris Mitchell and her family who emigrated to Melbourne from Cornwall in 1922. I understand that the story was inspired by actual diaries of one of the ladies who has created this incredible story. 

I can't wait to receive my next letter due next month, however I will have to be patient - perhaps a few more cups of tea in my lovely tea set in the meantime.

For now though, take care, and look after yourself.

June

Another New Year

 I could say where has the time gone, but to be honest it has been extremely busy around here with no stitching being done!!

After we came back from our last trip to Bjelke Petersen Dam in October last year, our caravan went in for hail damage repair from December 2020 - so far we have not got it back yet.

Thankfully in one way it was not here on our property as at the beginning of December 2021 we had another hail storm - mind you these are not 'the norm' for our area - and if it had been here it would have been heading back in for more repairs. This time though it was our vehicle that got the damage. A much quicker repair job than our caravan.

Christmas was very quiet and we chose to take some time out to recover from a very trying year, and get ready for another year that looks like a third year of Covid.

I have used this time to assess what it is I want to do this year, and the first thing will be to stop procrastinating (been doing it for years) and get in to clean up my craft room.

So for now, I shall head back into 'The Mess' and get another bag ready to put in our rubbish bin.

More shortly,

June