Random Acts

RAK posts usually get posted over at Fairhand but I am delighted to have discovered a Ravelry group, UK RAKs. And here's my first parcel, ready to send, It's an alphabetic organised (therefore not-so-random) activity and I am sending "R" - could you guess? That means that in time I shall receive "Q" - and …

Wish List item #37,582…

I fancy this Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn I've seen at least two excellent patterns from it on Ravelry. I particularly favour this one

Mid-life

Do middle-aged men always revert to childhood? Given a choice of absolutely anything he wanted to eat for his 50th birthday dinner, what did my man choose? "I fancy Italian," he said. Fair enough, nothing wrong with that, it's a fine cuisine. But... this on further interrogation appeared to come down to meaning "pizza" in …

What to do?

Well, I finished the mitts and now I have to sew in forty-two quadrillion ends. I made an abysmal job of the mitts. Truly awful. I plan never to knit fingers again, not even teensy ones. Especially not teensy ones, come to think on it. I need a distraction before I inadvertently pick up a …

Safely home

Five to eleven and all the shopping put away. Time for a long soak in a hot bath and a good stiff drink

I don’t like this

It's 9:30 pm and my stress levels are somewhere up around roof level