mumblings

.. is how much sleep I’m going to get tonight as our taxi is coming at 4am! (advance apologies to Foo and Sarah if I forget to reset alarm!) See you in two weeks and see some of you even sooner!

I still feel like someone has mashed up my insides but I did manage to stop worrying about all the stuff I need to do before we go (I have my passport and clean clothes) and settle down on Cherry for a nap this morning. I went out to the shop again and was so [...]

This is our new (to us) sofa. It was a bit of a leap of faith as we hadn’t got a clue what it looked like before pao hired a van, organised the lovely Foo and Sarah to help, shipped me off to my convalescent home from home and brought it home. I told myself [...]

Only three people knew about this knitting project and I had planned to leave it in the house for the recipient next week but as we saw her tonight, I thought it was the perfect time to give it to her Yes, it is another Birch – I saw that she liked the pink one [...]

My friend’s op went really well and as she managed to get upstairs for the first time since the op, I came home again last night. I was there a bit longer than she thought but it was good for me as the doctor noticed some viral markers on my blood test and signed me [...]

I thought I was doing well with the Child’s French Sock but I was wrong. It looked a bit bumpy and the heel didn’t look like the picture in the book so I unravelled. A lot. Thankfully, there was much knitting done at Typostock so I’ve now finished the first one bar the kitchenering and [...]

A couple of weeks ago, we hopped in the car and went to sunny Croydonville to chez Typo for a tapas party. It was excellent fun and nice to relax in the garden chatting to people I don’t normally chat to that often and listening to Mark and Adam playing along in the background. If [...]

Alicia sent some lovely spinning goodies so pao decided it was time we ordered a wheel especially since I had been given a copy the book. Thank you ever so much, Alicia!! I was moving some PCs from one place to another on Friday when I discovered a big box in the car – my [...]

Is it Wednesday already? Here are the crops from last month – they were quite Project Spectrumesque. That links nicely to this month’s colours purple, brown and orange. As purple is one of my top favourite colours, I’ve already been looking round for purples. Here are a few from my garden A lovely clematis. A [...]

I woke up quite early this morning and was sitting downstairs minding my own business when pao came down after he heard the radio news to say that a bridge had collapsed in Minneapolis. My first thoughts were for my lovely friends Chris, Jeanne and Eileen and their families. Thankfully Chris posted a blog posting [...]