We are socialising tonight. It does not happen often. I was busy in the kitchen this morning, trying to eliminate the egg glut by making mayo as a base for a few dips to delve into later. Mr L felt it incumbent upon himself to wield the Dyson. Now, me, I know this house. When …
Category archives: Living
The Frog Pond
Tomorrow is scheduled for frogging projects that I really can’t be bothered to complete, for whatever reason. I am rescheduling that activity to begin today, in the breaks between Antalya repeats. It’s a good change of activity for my hands. That should leave tomorrow free to knit the mitt that should have been done today. …
Pacing
I solved the hat:hands problem. There were three repeats left, so I elected to knit one this morning, do one this afternoon, and the last one tonight. This probably means that the grafting will wait until tomorrow now. Normally I do not knit in the a.m. I attempt to imitate something approaching domesticity prior to …
A brand new week to play with
Good morning, Monday — could you not have been a little brighter and dryer, just for a change? No? Well, we’d best just shrug our shoulders and get on with it then. Perhaps we should replace the hens with ducks. The Postie has been. He brought with him a new stylus for the jukebox. It …
The Domestic Scene
First of all, let me say that the knitting plan is foundering already. This is entirely due to the power cut that we suffered on Friday evening. Well, maybe a little to do with the migraine as well. I got no knitting done all day on Friday and was intending to pick up my work …
Sunday Sun
It is a lovely day today and I would dearly love to be out and about with boots on, dogs and camera… but Mr L is having one more go at fitting that light next door and I have spent the last considerable time being shouted at from above and switching lights on and off …