Well, that’s all over and done with for another year. Mine was fine, how was yours? We had further snow on the 24th and there was of course no road clearing on the morning of the 25th. Luckily we have 4WD, so we managed to get oot ‘n aboot just fine. In fact, despite a …
Category archives: Living
Monday Optimism
Monday Optimism The snow will not last forever The second lace scarf is over halfway done and will certainly (barring disasters) be complete by the end of the week, if not the end of the month as had been planned Scarf 1 will be blocked tomorrow, while Mr L has his weekly phone conference and …
Not about Ken Dodd
To me this world is a wonderful place And I’m the luckiest human in the whole human race I’ve got no silver and I’ve got no gold But I’ve got happiness in my soul Happiness to me is an ocean tide Or a sunset fading on a mountain side A big old heaven full of …
Armistice
Last year’s post says all that there is to say.
Phopping Urchin
A little while ago I mentioned falling off the yarn-purchase-diet and I showed you some Colinette that I gained from p/hop. Well, yesterday I turned that yarn into an oversized Urchin beret. I knitted the large size, because I know that I have a 23″ head. But I failed to swatch — and that was …
Home again
Home again – and most weary. I managed to mail off both my recent commission knit and a P-hop package (much delayed) to paintermom . While killing time, I thought I’d investigate the LYS again in the hope that stock had improved since I first arrived in Orkney. It was a depressing excursion and I …