Here it is, The Weekend once more. Mr L is happily ticking off the days, with only 33 days at his desk remaining. Today he is embattled in the front porch, long used as a rubbish depository since the front door stopped working and carried on as such despite the fitting of new doors. Rubbish …
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Well, there is a turn-up
Yesterday ended well and I am still smiling. Do you have a special friend – one that can place a smile on your face from hundreds of miles away, just by your seeing their name in your in-box or similar? Well, I had a contact from a special friend yesterday and it really lifted my …
Soliciting
There follows here some actual Knitting Content. Don’t be amazed. You knew that it, like my mojo, would be back one day. It was rather longer ago than I care to admit that I announced a new project, the Beekeeper’s Quilt. I notice on my Ravelry project page that I was aiming for a completion …
Knitting Update
It is high time that we had a knitting update, though truthfully there has been very little actual knitting this winter. Projects deemed to be current: Warriston: knitting complete, still in need of armhole grafting and other finishing tasks Mr L’s Sir Lancelot sweater – no further progress – back at armholes, front ribbing done …
The outlook is rosy
What is this? Well, yes, it is pink. Self-discipline was never going to be the preferred modus operandi for long now, was it? Let’s get real. It’s early January, the sun has not been seen for days and every time that I look out of the door it is blowin’ a hoolie. Was I really …
How short is too short? and how long is long enough?
Shirley Conran once famously stated that life is too short to stuff a mushroom. What rot. I am here to tell her that the effort taken to pack, for instance, some tasty herb-laden garlic butter into those little white buttons is time well spent. However, if time is short, pick a larger mushroom and the effort …
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