I’m depressed. I’m cold. I’m miserable. My chest hurts. It’s dark and gloomy and windy and wet. I’ll bet even my bread fails to rise today. There’s nothing in the house for lunch and there is no chocolate. No lemons for hot honey and lemon. No Scotch for hot toddies. Grump. Grump. Grump.
Category archives: Living
Oooh – look at the pretty colours in the air!
All those lovely shades of blue in the air 😛 So – Kirkwall is cancelled. The car was fine yesterday. In fact, it was fine at 8:15am when Mr L turned it around. Come 8:20am when I was ready to leave? No wipers! Mr L fiddled and announced that all was now fine. I went …
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Shopping
Kirkwall shopping day tomorrow. A big event in these here parts. Mr L is reluctant to take time off from work at present, and he is as reluctant to shop on Saturday when the homeward journey takes over three hours, so I am going without him. I am not managing to be brave enough to …
Spinning Day
Spinning was at F’s today. Fascinatingly, I appear to have been to the Frozen Norf. It’s only about 6Km to Crudy, but it seems to have its own microclimate and I was astounded to find myself in a Winter Wonderland when I approached. It was all green and sunny when I left home! I wasn’t …
Oh, vile…
My chest is so vile today that even I don’t want to know me. Whatever you do, don’t allow me to tell you all about it. I think I am supposed to be doing some work today so I’d best hie mesel off to the kitchen and fashion some lunch to have on hand. My …
Bleugh
The Butternut Scarf [Ingrid at Ravelry] is now making gratifying progress. It has moved from that horrible stubby stage into something which does at least flap, if not drape. According to my Geek Knitters Spreadsheet[TM] it is now 30% complete, after four and a half pattern repeats. It’s looking beautiful and I already want to …