Customise a T-shirt: ribbon collar and cuffs

I'll come clean: I love ribbon. I hoard it. I spend lunchtimes gazingat it in VV Rouleaux, Liberty and MacCulloch & Wallis. And now and then, I actually make something with it. I took a basic navy V-neck T-shirt from Uniqlo, and sewed on some toning striped ribbon from Jane Means around the cuffs and the collar. I started sewing on the ribbon at work, carried on with it on the train home, and finished it off at home. The T-shirt has been uplifted into a whole new fashion class and best of all, it's unique.

We've got an allotment!

After just two years on the waiting list, we've got half a plot - shared with one of our friendly neighbours, who's also a new plot tenant.
We've had a quick peek over the fence (haven't got the keys yet) and it's hideously weedy and overgrown as you'd expect, but there are a couple of artichokes, two rose bushes and a massive lavender plant, as well as a bean frame and lots of odd pots and bit of wood and metal poles lying around. This is going to take some time...
Although I may mention allotment issues on here now and then, it's not going to become an allotment blog; there are already loads of people who do it far better than I could.