Still lagging

I am still all behind and look to be in no danger of catching up any time soon, either. Ah, well, Tomorrow I am zooming into town to get my hair shorn. It’s not so very long just now but I like it short and easily-managed when I am camping. Brunhilde has failed her MOT …

The Aga Can

It has been a while since we had an Aga update. I suspect this is largely due to the fact that when the warm weather arrived, we turned it off. I switch the hob on to cook most days but have not used the oven a great deal recently. Mr L says that the Aga …

Allons-y!

Yesterday’s mail brought with it a whopping £18.50 in Tesco vouchers. These apparently came as loyalty points from our electricity provider. I have been saving my Tesco cash vouchers for a while now as they can be exchanged for three times their face value in Channel Shuttle tickets. I have £45 saved so far, so I …

In brief

The cotton/cashmere skeins are still not completely dry. The alpaca ones are pretty much there so I have twisted them up and will put them away in the caravan this afternoon. I can’t wait to make a start on the jumper but part of me still feels reticent and wants to wait until I see …

I coulda’ been a contender…

Some days one wakes up with such a degree of clarity… knowing that idiocy is one’s natural state. Remember when I went out to check all my WiPs and UFOs, to see what might be completed in time for the Show this year? I found very little. Well, I should like to know why somebody (yes, me) …

No fat around here

It was a perfect Show day, weatherwise. Warm enough, bright enough and best of all, dry. Not so much sun as to make things hard work. We popped up the road around midday and took photos of sheep judging and at the Horse and Dog rings. There was not a lot going on anywhere this …