Shopping Day

It's shopping day today - I could tell this by the complete absence of marmalade for my breakfast...obviously we were well overdue for shopping, the arrival of the Tesco vouchers...too late to be taken to Kirkwall, and also by the complete absence of Mr L...very eerie. The house seems so empty and quiet without him, …

Feeling Seedy

Pondering some green possibilities for knitted PS4 projects...

Spinning Day

I failed to get any spinning done but I did knit on my latest project, though not much - a poor night left me feeling very lacklustre today. I am approaching the end of the second ball, nonetheless. Spinning was chez moi again. We had the "Queen Mum's Cake" today, and it slipped down very nicely, thank you...

Petra-fied

A pair of hand warmers in laceweight cashmere. These had been intended as a Christmas gift for my twin, as she has taken up photography, but clearly were going to be much too large for her little hands, so these are now for myself and she shall have some later...

Ingrid

Another lacy scarf from Knitspot. This one is the Butternut Scarf, knitted in a Colourmart laceweight yarn. "Ingrid" - because this piece of knitting is for comfort in the same way that an old Ingrid Bergman B&W 3 hankie movie is for comfort on a dreary winter afternoon. I don’t have a TV to watch, but I do have lace to knit.

*SCREAM*

Here we are, coffee time already! Been on the go since 07:30 and not yet got any desk work done. I can't say I've done no work, as the rubbish went out first thing and laundry got taken out of the washer and a new load put on, and ditto with the dishwasher, and all …