Some low life stole the thesis I’d reserved to read on Monday and Tuesday afternoons so I had to hunt out some other sources to look at instead! I decided that it was about time I had an afternoon off as I’ve been feeling a bit grotty so I went to Tiny Tim’s with Lizzie [...]
pao put up our lounge and dining room lights this weekend. HP6 was quite taken with the ones in the lounge and had to be talked down. The cats, particularly Perdita and Phoebe, are really enjoying the Christmas tree. I took this just after I caught her wrestle a chocolate bauble in the hallway. I [...]
Dear pao, If I am not particularly responsive over the Christmas break it will be because I’m reading. And reading and reading some more. Then writing and writing and writing and writing. Then chopping and writing and refining – rinse and repeat. So I apologise in advance if the following things happen: I become either [...]
I know it is a bit of an odd reason for wanting to live somewhere but when I stepped through the front door of our new house for the first time; my first thought was that we should get an enormous Christmas tree to go in the hallway – doesn’t it look perfect. We went [...]
My doctor sent me home today as I have an incredibly horrid virus so I thought it would be a good time to catch up a bit between napping…. It was a couple of weeks ago now that I hopped on an earlyish train with HP6 to London for the first UK Stitch n’ Bitch [...]
(not to be mistaken for the Knit Wit) Guess who trapped all her stitch markers in her stole when inserting a life line? I decided that life lines were the way to go when in my bleary tiredness, I started to knit the wrong row in the pattern and in the midst of trying to [...]
Thank you so much for your kind words about pao’s op yesterday. If you are curious (and are not squeamish), you can go and read his version of events. I’m going to post more pictures from our US trip in the next few days but I thought I’d catch up on knitting before that as [...]
I bought pao a knitted penguin on Saturday and when the others saw him they said it was too cold and they wanted hats too. Luckily, the lovely people who make Innocent drinks are doing their campaign for Help the Aged so many of their drinks have hats on this month in order to raise [...]
HP6 seems to like an nice cup of tea and is already using the cats as furniture. He’s even made friends with Pickle. If you haven’t come across Emma Thompson’s story of Lili and Pickle – it is a lovely story with a lovely pattern to knit your own Pickle inside the cover (no I [...]
I have been coveting one of Monkee Maker’s awesome monkees for quite a long time so when she opened her shop, I was there staking my claim on the wonderful HP6 (Half-Pint 6, to the untutored in the monkee business) and one of her super cute monkee bags. He’s very cute! We drove through Canterbury [...]