“We arrived in Kirkwall to find it far colder than Sanday had been when we left. There was some low cloud and mist that brought with it the kind of chill that instantly seeps into one’s bones and saps all energy.
We coped with the chill by heading for a good breakfast…”
Photo-rich post about a day at the shops
Just looking at a Wordpress Plugin – Cube Points. Well, that’s one way to do it. I could bribe you to speak to me…
The Jumbo Flyer is still in the box that it was delivered in and the holidays are half over. Other things have been in the way but I really am hoping/planning to get the Danish Oil out in the next few days so that I can assemble the flyer soon. It feels like forever since I did any spinning.
Christmas Day dawned fair – a long-awaited break in the weather brought a day of blue skies, sunshine, and very little wind. Perfect for our picnic walk, though the tide times were anything but perfect.
High tide was due around 4pm, when it would be dark. We took a chance and headed out around midday, thinking that the tide might be low enough…
I received a mystery parcel on Christmas Eve. A blue bag, from The Yarn Yard. Nothing I had purchased… it was marked not to be opened until Christmas and I was a good girl and I waited…
No resolutions for the New Year, but a few sensible predictions… plus a handful of hopes, and a smart dash of reality… and 2009 is declared by one intrepid knitter to be the year of the Great Stashbust…
Dinner tonight was freshly-made tagliatelle egg pasta with a sauce made from white wine, dolcelatte and brie, with mushrooms – all served with a walnut salad. Absolutely gorgeous.
I used Pouilly Fumé, as the only bottle of white wine in the house – and glugged about one third of a bottle into a pan, added a small clove of crushed garlic, …
I don’t know – you wait for months for a Doctor to arrive and then two come along at once, but neither one takes you anywhere that you want to go!
Perhaps Dr Who isn’t suited to that format,
I had made a dozen mince pies. I took great care with them, to make them as good as possible under the circumstances. But tragedy befell! …
Set of photographs of the dogs at the beach on Dec 25th, 2008. The deep/dark colours are due to my forgetting that I had a polariser fitted. In most cases, I don’t mind at all. There’s something deep and rich and lovely about these images – they remind me in some ways of oil paintings… like they already have the patina of age, somehow – just vague memories already.
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