Today’s “Sanday Sunday” was the Farmers’ Market. I was on the Sanday Spinners stall with SpinningGIll and sold some fingerless mittens and some Fathers’ Day cards. More interestingly, we (Mr plumbum and I) bought fillet steak – which we had for non-Birthday dinner tonight, preceded by asparagus, and followed by strawberries and mascarpone/Greek yoghourt cream. …
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A little sock naivete
The sock makes progress. By bath time last night I had the heel turned. It had been a struggle, both mentally and physically. The pattern instructions are laid out in very dense fashion, making them difficult to read, and written in a way that I found moderately hard to follow. Physically working the shaping was …
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Oh, FFS! PURL THREE TOGETHER THROUGH BACK OF LOOPS ????? ‘scuse me. I need to tink a few rows. This sock cannot possibly be right.
Ugh!
Oh, my. These toe-up heels are rather beastly. I am not having fun at all, which is a shame, because the standard heel on the cuff-down sock is tremendous fun to do.
Ludicrous
A ludicrously late night last night saw us squeezing our one puzzle solution of the day in under the 3am bar, by just five minutes, for a maximum five points. We didn’t even have time to look at the other three of yesterday’s puzzles. Feeling very dull today as a consequence and taking tings very …
Slump
Excuse me while I have a little slump. Yours truly is pretty well fatigued right now. A day’s shopping on the mainland is always fatiguing, but fitting in a hospital trip as well just makes it one mad dash. So much of a dash that I didn’t even have chance to go buy knitting needles …