End of the year

Well, that's it, almost another year over & done with - I wonder where the time goes as it doesn't seem like a year could have gone by so quickly?!

I thought I'd finish by showing you what's on my needles & I'm hoping to have finished fairly soon.






The purple item is a Rowan pattern - Nell by Martin Storey, it was a free pattern with Simply Knitting. However, progress on that is at a standstill as I broke my needle, well, I broke the joining cable of my circ, which is pretty disastrous!! And actually, the picture with the broken needle shows the colour a bit better - it's in between both those pictures, a very dark purple.

Then there's my Pomatomus' which are looking pretty good even if I say so myself. I thought they would be harder than they are as the pattern is charted & I've never knitted from a chart before but it seems to be going okay. I only cast them on 2 days ago so I'm pleased with them - the pattern & yarn.

The only thing left to say now is Happy New Year & here's to 2008!!

Post wedding blues

It's been a perfect weekend - my sister in law got married on Saturday & it was wonderful - pics to follow.

But in recovering today, I found this & it made me giggle!!

Light at the end of the tunnel

Well, it's a bit of anticlimax really. I mean, getting to the end of the NaBloPoMo

I made it & remembered to blog every day for a whole month. I enjoyed it in an odd kind of way because I could just blog about anything & let's be honest, I have!

And because I've been knitting Christmas socks for ages, I haven't really blogged about knitting or pop, as I haven't been to any gigs for a while & I'm guessing that The Snow Queen & 42nd Street don't quite cut it.

I hope that I'll carry on blogging on a fairly regular basis although I think I'll try for a bit more knitting content or a bit more pop.

See you in December!!

Could do better....

That's me - could do better!

So, although I was on holiday for nearly a month touring the North West of America, my blogging has been a bit rubbish & intermittent to say the least. Just to show that I was really away and that I took my knitting along, here's a picture of my husband & I in the Californian redwoods & me knitting in Central Park - yep, both the West & East coast for us this time!!

My New Year resolution (for Nov 1st) is to blog at least once a week and also to learn how to transfer pictures from the camera to PC.

Watch this space!

Heartache & Heartburn

We went to see John Shuttleworth last night - http://www.shuttleworths.co.uk/ He's a comedy singer, which sounds dreadful but really isn't and is absolutely hilarious.

He sings about jaspers (wasps!), food and his Y reg car!!

Over the weekend I made a start on my baby knitting, not for me! For South African babies who used to go home wrapped in newspaper.- this is the project http://www.freewebs.com/babypackproject/ As soon as I finsh, I'll put up some pics.

Reverend and the Makers

They ROCKED!!

The gig was great - I thought these were better than the Klaxons even though the venue is pretty ropey.

Watch out for these - I think they'll gonna be big.

PS Photos on their way, Brownies honour.

Out on a school night

This week is a busy one - we went to see the Klaxons yesterday night and they rocked! http://www.myspace.com/klaxons They were more punky than I thought they would be as they're being hyped as nu-rave but I had a good time.

Although for the first time ever I was soaked by a flying drink - if you can imagine a cartoon of someone having a bucket of water dropped on them - that's what happened. One minute I was standing there, minding my own business, the band came on and then whoosh, soaked wet through!. A lovely young man gave me his sweat band to help dry off the water, which was very sweet but I was dripping wet for the entire gig.

Then tomorrow is knitting night http://www.freewebs.com/bristolknittinggroups/ - this is us! And then we're going to see Reverend and the Makers http://www.myspace.com/reverendmusic on the same night - great!!

I'll let you know how it all goes, with pictures, later in the week