I spotted my first spring primrose today on my way to the doctor’s surgery. This one was in a ditch near the Lady Kirk. I know that there are many in the kirkyard and would have liked to stop for a wander, but needed to get home and relieve Mr L of puppy-minding duties. I …
Monthly archives: April 2008
Dragging my heels
Still no more sock done. I did cast on a lace scarf… several times, in fact. I don’t think it is going anywhere as a project. My plying is still only half done. I lack get up and go. This week, I would like to get that Cheviot dyed. Really, I would. It has been …
Slumped
I am weary. Very, very weary. It is good to see friends but the endless round of cooking and the sleeping in strange circumstances, added to a total change of routine? It all adds up to an extreme tiredness. I knitted about two rounds of sock all week. I did get to make some silk …
Thank heaven for that
Woke this morning to find that the Melbourne puzzle Hunt had reached its conclusion, which means that we can call a halt to the annual madness, if we wish. A bout of puzzle fatigue saw us tail off at the 19 puzzles solved stage, with six to go, and we dropped from ninth to 20th. …
No knitting
There isn’t much knitting being done this week, nor much preparation for next week’s visitors. We are consumed by puzzles. Not doing ‘arf badly, though – last year we finished in 31st position. At the time of writing we are in ninth… though there is plenty of time for that to change. All the same, …
Bank Job?
You know that I said that I needed to unsub from the Yarn Yard news and RSS feeds because I cannot afford the temptation? Well, I didn’t yet. And now Natalie has instituted a forthcoming updates posting *and* a new and wonderfully evocative naming scheme for her yarns and fibres: The Yarn Yard – The …