Adelina, as well as teaching us crafts, was my form tutor in the seventh year of E.G.B. (Basic General Education), which is now equivalent in Spain to the first year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education).<\/p>\n
Of all the wonderful things we made with her, the only things we still have<\/em> are the two trivets or placemats for hot pots made from jute twine that I\u2019ve shown below\u2026 And I say we still have<\/em> because it\u2019s actually my mum and dad who\u2019ve kept them at their house\u2026 They\u2019ve been using these placemats for over forty years\u2026 and they still do the job!<\/p>\n And, whilst chatting to Adelina, she reminded me of a lovely story. She still remembers a day when it rained quite heavily and, straight afterwards, the sun came out and a magnificent rainbow formed in the sky\u2026 and I was really surprised and told her it was the first time I\u2019d ever seen a rainbow\u2026<\/p>\n I\u2019d completely forgotten about that story! And to think that, as an adult, I\u2019ve had a real passion for rainbows! There\u2019s no accounting for taste<\/em>!<\/p>\n\t\t Made at school in 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moncrafts","category-moncreativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29375,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360\/revisions\/29375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mongonzalez.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/00_Los-dos-salvamanteles-scaled.jpg\")
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