All a-board

“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

Points Mean Prizes

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

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

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…

A gift

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…

Predictions ’09

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…