Well, would you look at this? I appear to be knitting. Doing actual knitting. I actually started this Baktus scarf (Ravelry Link) whilst we were away for the winter. I managed four tiny rows and never picked it up again. The yarn is a cheap ball that I bought in Action. It’s a 4 ply …
Category archives: Knitting
An Island Year (December Reflections 11)
December Reflections prompt number 11 is: 10 years ago. Same old problem… all my images are at home. I don’t appear to have been Blipping at that time but I have managed to log in to Flickr tonight and refreshed my memory… Ten years ago, I was living one of the outer Northern Isles of …
Handywoman (December Reflections 5)
Today’s December Reflections prompt is: Best Book of 2019 Without doubt, the best book that I read this year was The Handmaid’s Tale. There are few better books. However, this was a re-read before tackling The Testaments and I am not sure that re-reads are within the spirit of the prompt. It is worth commenting …
Knitting News!
Finally…. finally. The knitting box has been unearthed and those two socks that were waiting for heels were lifted out. The interesting news is that one of the socks was much further on than I recalled and is actually already galloping towards the toe. It must have been waiting for Mr L to try it …
A bit of a pickle
A Thin Slice of my History When I was growing up, Sunday tea-time was usually a salad. If I was lucky, the protein element would be a slice of corned beef from a tin, or less fortunately, a slice of Luncheon Meat (also from a tin). High Days and Holidays might yield some Ham from …
This, that and the other
Time to catch up on how life has been treating me over the last couple of months? French red tape has made settling in very difficult. Normal processes seem to take forever and to require sizeable dossiers of paperwork. We do now finally have a French telephone SIM card, a French car, an electricity supply …