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  • Belarus Blog. A warm welcome to Osipovichi.

    Belarus Blog. A warm welcome to Osipovichi.

    Had a wonderful evening with the brilliant teachers, Inessa, Iryna and Valentina from Osipovichi and the Bristol link members with us here, Andy, Charlie and Terry hosted by the fabulous Alesya and husband Sasha at their home. Gorgeous Belarusian nosh inc draniki (potato pancakes) a very popular dish found in Belarus cuisine. Draniki’s main ingredients are grated potatoes and onions though some recipes also include meat, bacon, mushrooms and cheese. Served with sour cream. Yum!

    Lots of laughing, lots of vodka. Trying to introduce the phrase saywotnow (yay) into Belarus. It’s going well. 🙂

    Back to the workers’ hostel in Osipovichi. Our twin room is covered with wool, blankets and hearty hearts. Just like home really!

    We are two hours ahead. Must sleep. Night all xxx

  • Belarus Blog. We are here!

    Belarus Blog. We are here!

    And so are all the Billie’s Blankets and Hearty Hearts. Oh what a PHEW!!

    We nearly had to open the vac packed blankets in customs. Which would have been interesting and impossible to repack. Fortunately they changed their minds….

  • Belarus Blog. In the bar at Gatwick!

    Belarus Blog. In the bar at Gatwick!

    Good news. We are in the right place at the right time. They have accepted our luggage even though the Billie’s Blanket bag has had to go as oversized. Rude! It did fortunately scrape in at 22.9kg (out of 23) In for the win! All the hearty hearts are in too.

    So we are in the bar. Relieved.

    It’s good.

  • Belarus Blog. 23kg of Billie’s Blankets, all hail vac packing!

    Belarus Blog. 23kg of Billie’s Blankets, all hail vac packing!

    So we (G&G) leave for Osipovichi, Belarus this coming Wednesday and having talked about making the trip for about ten months, it feels like it’s come around very quickly. With us we are delighted to be taking 23kg of Billie’s Blankets, all Hearty Hearts, as well as some requested Lego kits and as much Sudocrem as possible. Ooooooo and two space hoppers! Around this we are going to squeeze in clothes for us, although the option of wearing everything on the plane has been discussed! We also and very definitely take all the Woolly Hugs’ crew with us in spirit.

    We can do this…

    Discovered the joys of vac packing (late adopters here) and it genuinely was very exciting (saddos) but the glories of it mean we can get at least 50 blankets in our 23kg quota. And that’s fabulous.

    We shall be updating our Belarus Blog frequently, please do follow us. We know for sure parts of this trip will be very challenging emotionally and it will really help to know the Woolly Hug crew are with us.

    The Blog automatically shares to our Twitter feed, we will share links onto Facebook and Instagram.

    Thank you for every item we are taking with us. Truly and always love in every stitch. xxx

  • Belarus Blog. Attempting to upload pics on the phone app!

    Had to reduce the size of the image to do this. Got a new app. What a kerfuffle! Here goes, fingers crossed.

  • Belarus Blog. Working out how to use the app. Testing…

    1,2,3 can you hear me at the back?

  • Spring Auction. Number 236. Double bed sized vintage quilt

    Spring Auction. Number 236. Double bed sized vintage quilt

    236) Amazing handmade, double bed sized vintage quilt this is stunning. It incorporates many fabrics, corduroy, satin, cottons and is backed in white cotton. It will need some tlc. We are leaving washing to the buyer. There are odd marks and a little damage to some of the texture of a few squares. But very minimal. It needs a new life!
     
     
    Thank you so much lovely Vicky K! xxx

    Spring Auction. Number 236. Stunning double bed sized vintage quilt

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    Starting Bid: £4.00

    Refresh BidGoing for £36.06 Winning: Margaret

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    Ending On: 24 March 2019 9:00 PM

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    236) Amazing handmade, double bed sized vintage quilt this is stunning. It incorporates many fabrics, corduroy, satin, cottons and is backed in white cotton. It will need some tlc. We are leaving washing to the buyer. There are odd marks and a little damage to some of the texture of a few squares. But very minimal. It needs a new life!
    1. Margaret bid £36.06 on 24 March 2019 7:05 PM
    2. Jayne Roper bid £35.06 on 24 March 2019 7:05 PM [auto]
    3. Margaret bid £35.00 on 24 March 2019 7:05 PM
    4. Jayne Roper bid £31.00 on 24 March 2019 5:07 PM
    5. Margaret bid £28.00 on 24 March 2019 11:55 AM
    6. Nicole Stanfield Caile bid £26.00 on 23 March 2019 10:24 PM [auto]
    7. Fay Jones bid £25.00 on 23 March 2019 10:24 PM
    8. Nicole Stanfield Caile bid £21.50 on 23 March 2019 9:12 PM
    9. Hazel Henry bid £20.50 on 21 March 2019 2:39 PM
    10. Alison Stannard bid £20.00 on 21 March 2019 12:35 PM [auto]
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