fourth edition

And on the fourth day of the Ravelympics I was too busy to knit because I was watching this on TV. So. Much. Love.

(Rumour has it she was seen knitting backstage at Glastonbury)

Just a little peek of my just-off-the-blocking-board shawl. It’s beautiful, it’s warm and it’s mine. Sorry. I notice how my projects travel by colour. I had a green phase last spring/summer, then recently I have knitted a lot of blue-ish purples and pink fuschia, and now I appear to gravitate towards rich reds. I hope [...]

Just a quick little link dump today as I have managed to pull a muscle in my back/shoulder region which makes typing a tad uncomfortable.

I bought Elephants On Acid & Other Bizarre Experiments as a Christmas present for a good friend of mine. I based my purchase entirely on this line from an Amazon review: [...]

Christmas has caught up with me. We are leaving for Scandinavia next week (and it is rumoured to be very cold), we are heading for North-East Scotland this week (and it’s rumoured to be almost as cold) and somewhere in between these two trips I have to finish David’s sweater (because places are rumoured to [...]

The Guardian is running a series of semi-humourous columns called This Column Will Change Your Life and I hit upon It’s Not Easy Always Being Right the other night. I don’t think I’m always right – I live in  shades of grey – but I know that I often feel like I’m outsmarting people (mostly [...]

Hawksley Workman. One of my favourite male singers. And the video is so beautiful.

Zoey Van Goey is a local band we’ve seen on several occasions. They’re a an engaging live act and off-stage the members are talented, smart and nice. I was very pleased to find a video for their “The City is Exploding” – the art direction made me think of my very good friend (and frequent [...]

Blog silences happen when un-bloggable things are happening.
So, bloggable things in quick recap form:

I’m reading a lot of Georgette Heyers at the moment. I’m on my third in less than a week.
I’ve cast on for Helga Isager’s Pine in a new Scottish handknitting yarn. I will have to rip it out as I started the [...]

I could listen to him all day (and frequently do if nobody else is around). Just listen to that phrasing..
(I was raised on a diet of Sinatra and ABBA – and Other Half maintains this fact explains my psyche perfectly. I have no idea what he means by that. Any takers?)

A deadline has been and gone. Yesterday, in fact.
So I can finally start thinking about packing for Denmark, buying Branston Pickle for my Danish friends (don’t ask) and even post-Denmark things. As I’m flying out on Monday, you could argue it is about time.
I’m still torn on whether I should buy A.S. Byatt’s new novel, [...]