This was what I was going to write about, at least until the great news of the new kittens being born. I took some more pictures yesterday because the weather was so kind to us - blue sky and gorgeous sun.

I opened the lounge window to take some pictures from that angle and whilst I was sitting there I noticed that my hoya plant is showing signs of flowers to come....

My hoya is growing so quickly

As you can see - it's loving where I've put it - the amount of growth is amazing. Emily and I have had to coil it round and round to stop it from spreading outwards. It's right in front of the bay window as you can see, which is facing south, so it's really loving it there.

New flowers showing on the hoya

This shows the start of two flowers. One more ahead of the other. I looked at the plant more closely and I found 4 others like these, and there are also possible ones along the stems. So hopefully this year I'll have these gorgeous wax flowers to look at. Okay they stink the place out with the sickly sweet scent - but they're so beautiful that I'm quite happy to put up with the scent.


There are two flowers here starting to grow

You can make out the separate stems of the flower. The stalks are hairy too - which makes the syrupy wax which oozes out of the flowers, very keen on sticking to the hairs!!! Great - dust also sticks to them - and occasionally the odd spider's web!!!

This is what these flowers look like when they're out.....

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I'll no doubt take more pictures when they bloom, so be prepared to be bored!!!

I hope you all have a great weekend. I've had a great day with my cleaner, Emily, helping me sort out my material stash together with patterns, cottons, threads and everything else to go with my patchworking, and we also found and put together in one box all the other crafts I do. So now I know where to go to find all the things I need for my jewellry, or resin ornaments, or if I want to make soft toys. I'm so grateful to her for helping me like this, but she says she loves doing things like this - at least it wasn't too many times that I uttered "Oooh I'd forgotten about this", because I remembered all the material - what I was surprised by was how many scissors of different types I had - I don't need to buy any more for quite a while!! A bit like all the light bulbs I found last week - I think it was close to 40!!! I need large screw and small screw bulbs, as well as large bayonet and small bayonet bulbs. I'd forgotten where I'd put them when I needed some, so I bought some more!!! Now thanks to Emily and our venture into the cupboard in the kitchen - I can supply anyone who needs a bulb!!!!!!

Have a great weekend - I hope the sun shines on you too