And in today’s deliveries… Yarn! More cheap yarn from Turkey. The pink is 100% Bamboo, 4ply and is destined to be a half shawl. The grey is an Alpaca/Merino blend in a laceweight and I bought it for stash because it was cheap and I could add it without going into Customs. Seriously, £4.62 for …
Category archives: Living
It’s a Soup Day
I took a trip to town yesterday. Gill had invited me to join her on Monday when she went to Kirkwall and Jennifer had asked me to go with her on Tuesday. I checked the weather and added in the factor that Tuesday was likely to offer more fresh foods on the shop shelves. So, …
Slim and light… one day
So, recently delivered in the current flurry of parcel deliveries was this: No! Don’t be silly – the scale, not the apple. It is a Situ scale. Situ is a “smart, nutritional scale” that connects to a mobile device by Bluetooth. I have been after one since they were in development. Unfortunately when the scale …
Lights, please! Action… photo?
It has been a little bit like Christmas around here lately. Mr L has been on a spending spree and parcels have arrived on a daily basis. I planned yesterday to take some photographs and catch up on some blogging and to include some of this excess out of interest. What do you know though …
Slim Chance
Mr L’s sweater yarn is, on the face of it, still in Leicestershire. However it has “arrived at hub” in Hinckley twice now, if the tracking is to be believed, so I imagine (hope… trust) that the record from yesterday is actually of it leaving there. It seems to remain a long way off from …
Wild and dreary
It is a foul day today indeed. The light has not really been with us all day and now at three pm it is all but gone again. I confess to having done nothing useful or productive today. I am sitting at my desk, listening to an audio book and knitting on the new cowl …