Very busy today. I am tidying my desk. It’s not long since I did that but it never stays tidy for long as I have my fingers in so many pies. Today I have the added task of increasing the free acreage on my desk – I am to have a second monitor! Now, that’s [...]
All this concentrating on Knit Crochet Blog Week has rather got in the way of the more routine stuff. Here’s a quick catch-up on what I have been up to
I had to take this: to the vet yesterday, on an unscheduled trip to Kirkwall. I took my camera, as you can see, and also my designated Ferry Knitting. Animals are not allowed to travel in the passenger accommodation so Treacle, me and my migraine, and the knitting had to travel in the downstairs watchmacallit [...]
Wow, April is beginning to run away from us already, isn’t it – and I have not even cast on my April project yet. Yes, it is a UFO, but it’s a frogged one. Really, the weather is just too nice to be sitting knitting. the sun beckons me outside with my camera. Really, the [...]
I think that I may have mentioned the arrival of this the other day: I have been pushing my photographic skills recently, so today the hand stood in for a model. The hand is supposed to be for showing off new handy FOs. But it appears to have a wide range of uses… …not [...]
It is another amazingly beautiful day today and the weather looks set to continue well into next week. I have been out and about with the camera and precious little knitting has been done. Things look set to continue that way as we attempt to make the most out of this holiday weekend. Yesterday we [...]
I seem to be in a butterfly phase
It’s a bit parky out there. I’m sitting here, with Beth’s prize-winning Bridgewater shawl around my shoulders and my sock-yarn fingerless mitts on (also knitted by Beth) contemplating making the lunch. Cheese on toast. We’re supposed to be out in the garage doing some measuring towards putting up a partition, but apart from seeing to [...]
Big thanks to trundlebug for the alert – the 4th Annual Knit Crochet Blog Week is announced as happening April 22nd – 28th. As always, it is just what Gill and I need to plant a sole on our bottoms and motivate us to post more regularly. I shall be doing my best to post [...]
I am being neglectful, aren’t I? What can I say, but “sorry”. Mr L’s replacement lenses arrived but by then I was in a new rhythm. I am not knitting, nor spinning, or doing much at all of interest to this blog. The new blog, which I think I mentioned recently, is getting most of [...]
Mr L has lost his lenses. Maybe they are lost; perhaps they never arrived. Whatever the case, they are nowhere to be found. Admittedly, he is looking for them, as we say around here, without his eyes in. Poor Mr L has awful eyesight; his eyes were damaged in childhood by that foul disease, the [...]
Monday most certainly was Washing Day – I got a mound of laundry done in yesterday’s wonderful weather. Today is also glorious. I am just packing my rucksack, with a plan to walk the Sanday Spinners orders down to the village post office before walking all the way back up again, and beyond, to the [...]
I have 6 of yesterday’s points knitted and it’s not even lunch time yet. That means that I may get yesterday’s and today’s goals met by bed-time. I am actually 2 down from Saturday too, so another 16 points today would be good. That’s a lot. On the other hand, I was already 10 points [...]
We had a fairly a-typical weekend, though large elements were recognisably traditional. There was sun! and no wind! Lots of laundry… I cooked on Saturday (Tempura Chicken – Sweet & Sour sauce) for a change. (The plan had been for Satay Prawns but the shop came up short on several ingredients.) A suitable bottle of [...]
I am having a No Plans Day today. I have just interrogated the refrigerator to find put what aged items are forming our lunch. It came up as a surprise couscous lunch with Chorizo, Feta, Peppers and Aubergine. That won’t take long to assemble. Mail and orders have been attended to. So, I am sitting [...]
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