Somebody asked me yesterday why suddenly people are knitting socks on the ferry these days. Well, it’s the famous Sanday Sock Cult… I said. Which led to a minor mental aberration, and my secret renaming of the Sanday sock knitting ladies as…The Sanday Sock Cultists. I giggled, on and off, all the way home. What? …
Category archives: Living
Better today
The Official Blog Puppy is feeling much perkier today. Good, I am glad of that. I, on the other hand, feel punch drunk – very tired and a bit woozy. So, no catch up post from yesterday yet. I’ll do pics and some notes later in the week.
Poor blog puppy
Poor baby! It has been a long hard day. Not much knitting got done We went to Stromness, where I took around 40 pictures, but this is all you are getting for now, and Mr L bought me this… “carded Orkney Wool” from The Sorting Room (a sort of artists co-op) – I liked the …
Not really…
It’s not really castonitis. It’s more knitting-as-therapy. Yes, I have a new project on the needles. It will soon be off again. I am rattling up a 4 ply Shetland Lace scarf. After spending so much time on the web mastering recently, I was feeling very much in need of some mindless knitting. I dug …
No-spinning day
No spinning today. Mr L has a work crisis on and I need to stay home on puppy duty, especially as I have a meeting myself this afternoon. Sometimes I think that it sounds strange when I say that I cannot go out because of the dogs – it’s not the full story, of course… …
AWOL
The site that I have being helping to build went live (but incomplete, by a long way) tonight. So this is what has been keeping me busy, and off the sock-knitting. And now, I am ready for beer!