I have been having a very low energy week and seem generally at a low ebb. Nothing has been getting done. Not even for Mr L’s birthday. And certainly no knitting. I just haven’t seemed able to get my act together at all recently That must change. So far today I have managed to push …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Random Wishes
I am trying to get my head around the notion of a RAK group that operates wish lists. Nope. It’s not working. Maybe I’ll get used to it – but I do think that I prefer truly random acts, rather than ones informed by lists of desires. A profile, I can handle. I see no …
Random Acts
RAK posts usually get posted over at Fairhand but I am delighted to have discovered a Ravelry group, UK RAKs. And here’s my first parcel, ready to send, It’s an alphabetic organised (therefore not-so-random) activity and I am sending “R” – could you guess? That means that in time I shall receive “Q” – and …
Wish List item #37,582…
I fancy this Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn I’ve seen at least two excellent patterns from it on Ravelry. I particularly favour this one
Mid-life
Do middle-aged men always revert to childhood? Given a choice of absolutely anything he wanted to eat for his 50th birthday dinner, what did my man choose? “I fancy Italian,” he said. Fair enough, nothing wrong with that, it’s a fine cuisine. But… this on further interrogation appeared to come down to meaning “pizza” in …
What to do?
Well, I finished the mitts and now I have to sew in forty-two quadrillion ends. I made an abysmal job of the mitts. Truly awful. I plan never to knit fingers again, not even teensy ones. Especially not teensy ones, come to think on it. I need a distraction before I inadvertently pick up a …