pao went to see his eye consultant this afternoon who confirmed that George (pao’s transplanted cornea) is showing signs of rejection. Please could I ask you to send your warm thoughts and prayers his way because it still could go either way at this point. pao’s cornea is rejecting on the outside not the inside [...]
I was inspired by Chris’ Cable Twist socks to try out some cables in my sock knitting. I chose the Whitby pattern in Nancy Bush’s Knitting on the Road book. Here is the first sock And here is a close up of the cables. I didn’t use a cable needle – just the fifth DPN. [...]
I hope you’re not bored with London – I love it I saw a lot of red in London and thought these were perfect Project Spectrum photos. A vintage red bus in the Imperial War Museum. A propoganda badge from WWII. Probably what started British Summer Time. Blackfriars Bridge. Chinese lanterns to celebrate Chinese New [...]
I’m having a bit of a rubbish day today so I thought you might enjoy seeing my stash enhancement as yarn definitely cheers me up. pao’s eye has started hurting a lot so he went into see a consultant at the hospital who has sent him home with a big load of eye drops and [...]
We’ve been in our new house a whole year today! A whole year! I can’t believe how quickly it has gone by. Woooooooooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! We managed to fit it two yarn shops whilst we were in London last week. I’d been to iKnit in December but it was too dark to take any decent photos. I [...]
We had such a great time in London and had a great walk along the Embankment. This bust of Nelson Mandela by the Royal Festival Hall marked where we started off on our hunt for Annie Sherburne’s shop in the Oxo Tower. I liked this statue of two women chatting. It was fun to see [...]
I thought you’d enjoy this photo I took yesterday morning. We’ve had a lot of hard frost and fog here over the last few days. I think the sky looks pretty amazing. Now onto the tank pr0n pao and I went to the Imperial War Museum on Friday last week. It was packed full of [...]
I got the cutest Valentine from Sarah – isn’t it cute? Thank you, Sarah!!! Talking of cute, I won a knitted cupcake in Monkee Maker’s raffle HP6 is now a very happy monkee indeed. I’ve just finished the knitted part of the cushion cover. It has proved to be a battle though. Ophelia loves it [...]
There were some good bits to Valentine’s Day – it wasn’t all about that cat. pao got me some really nice gifts from the craft gallery in Cranbrook. This cup and saucer are really cheerful and came with this cute bird bowl and this beautiful blue jug. I have a small collection of jugs so [...]
… pussy’s covered in yarn. Thank you so much to everyone who has commented on my last two posts. The last few days are going to be ingrained on my memory. I am keeping positive about Merlin – he’s a fighter and extremely tenacious so I am expecting a lot more time with him. This [...]