Sewing when there is no time for sewing...

Last week was very trying with all sorts of disruptions and things needing attention. Mostly to do with the house. Our drains are very old, and during summer the back half of the drains collapsed, and replaced - with most of our lawn dug up. The lawn came back, but now we are back to this: No lawn again. And as you can see, it is damp and gloomy - I've just taken the last two pictures at 4.45 pm in NSW - and this is how dark it is already. And the plumbers keep stopping work when it rains - the drains going up the side of the house are being relined so that we don't have to dig down there as well - you can see we have had to at the corner, the pavers are up. So I am about over drains this year. And the lawn is now going to have to be turf laid I think. I'm not weeding the mud patch over winter. We are also having our roof replaced next week after the cyclone of April 2015 left us with holes in the roof and lots of other damage. As it is a slate r