Just popping up to wave merrily and confirm that I’m not so very far away. Lots of stuff has been happening – I’ve had a commission to work on, and Mr L keeps throwing me out of his office in order to conduct telephone conferences, and there’s been lots of DIY stuff and a holiday [...]
I collected Mr L from the airfield yesterday morning – the poor man looked whacked, but I let him drive us home anyway. He’d mentioned on the phone how hard he was finding it, to not be in control of anything while he was travelling. So, I gave him control.
We unpacked and made coffee, [...]
The launch do went exceptionally well last night. I feared that few people would attend but we had a full room. The cheese and wine went down well and compliments were received regarding my dips (Cream Cheese and Spring Onion; Curry; Cheese and Mustard; Blue Cheese and Mushroom) – a second career there, maybe.
We [...]
Mr L rang last night. He said he was sitting on Preston station. It wasn’t yet 10pm. How come? He was supposed to be killing time in Manc, where there would be plenty to do.
“Manc was horribly depressing: too many people, and full of drunks. So I thought I’d get the train to Preston and [...]
Who knows where the time goes? Not I. There was so much planned, but so little of it happening as other things continue to get in the way. Feeling highly frustrated about it all this week. Yesterday was a particularly bad day and grumpiness was in evidence by tea-time.
Last night was the christening of my [...]
Things have been a bit hectic. Brief summary follows. Expanded notes, as appropriate, to come…
I did go to town last Wednesday. Most of the shops that I wanted to go to were shut. I therefore failed to obtain new needles for the man sweater and it is not yet started. Needles coming, via eBay. Knitted [...]
Here we are, galloping towards the end of April and it is time to take stock of the last two months and Project Spectrum. Generally it was pleasing. There was considerable output: the Invincible Summer hat, the Winter-white Alpine Butternut Scarf, the properly-green Northern Neighbour cowl and the also-green Laeticia socks all began and completed [...]
Still suffering from this wretched tiredness that has bugged me all week, but have been able to push myself to achieve some positive outcomes today. Made tomato pasta (tagliatelle) for dinner, and a chilli, tomato and prawn sauce to go with it. The lawn was mowed, though not by me - I just cleaned up [...]
Did I mention that when I was skeining the grey 4ply, a moth dropped out of my swift?
A MOTH.
I quickly eBay-ed an order of Rentokil moth-killer strips. Six twin packs, in fact.
I now have to consider the best way to deploy them, and then get on with it!
Also, did I remember to mention that [...]
It has been quite a week.
At the weekend I had my broken washing line repaired, so I seized advantage of the better weather and did laundry. Loads and loads of it. Day after day… as weather permitted. We have suffered a great deal of har recently, and also had heavy rainfall one day (don’t ask [...]
