I can scarce believe it but the sock yarn mountain is already reduced to a molehill – just three balls left. Mr L is having three and I have five for myself, the remainder has gone to new homes. I confess that I have already bid on two more packages of sock yarn from the …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
If only shoes were knittable
The remaining two lots of eBay sock yarn arrived this morning. I gave Mr L first dibs and he chose three balls for his own socks I was very taken with the cotton blend yarn – all eight balls were equally beautiful. It is a gorgeous range of shades. I may need to buy another …
Only in Orkney
The weather up here has been pretty good this week. On Monday we took Nell to the vet in Kirkwall to organise her passport. We made the long day of it and treated ourselves to an outing. Nell was very well-behaved, though a little stressed by her trip, so we took her straight from the …
Times are changing
We’re back! It took some doing though. Mr L moved woolgathering to its new server and then awaited DNS propagation. He announced this morning that the site was now visible again and so I set off to write this… but I was not seeing the blog on the new server, just the old one. Extensive …
Corny
Yesterday was a hard day and I enjoyed it not at all. We went to town on a dreich and drizzly morning. When we arrived in Kirkwall we were subject to that deceptive kind of rain that appears to be but a light drizzle but all too soon seeps right through to the bone. It was …
I’m slipping
Lunch came out of a packet today. I feel quite guilty. All that I did was to sling a ready prepared Piri Piri chicken into the oven, and add water to a packet mix of Rice and Quinoa and burble that on the stove for a while. I did make a salad. What did I …