So now you
know where to come if you want help knitting a haggis! Many thanks to yesterday’s
commenters.
A slight
setback here yesterday – I was knitting peacefully along on the Reversible Cables and came to the end of
the current ball and went to get the final skein of Colinette’s “Vatican Pie” –
and couldn’t find it! Could I possibly, in fact, not have ordered it? Were there only three? After
quite a bit of looking, I gave up and ripped out a few rows in order to have
the yarn to finish off.
Then I
found it.
The
stitches have been recovered, I’ve figured out where I am in the pattern, I am
ready to resume (except that I have still to wind the skein). But the net
result is that I seem to have advanced only two inches yesterday – still six to
go.
Christmas
Some
progress yesterday – I made a good start on the cards. I have heard from
Alistair in Beijing
I think I
read somewhere that the Surface automatically backs up to the cloud, and if
not, my husband can learn to use Dropbox. He has a healthy respect for the
routine of backing-up. Alistair says that they were burgled recently in Beijing
I had trouble with that blasted credit card again yesterday –
but this time it was probably because I typed a wrong digit. Payments to
other sources went through yesterday, and another one did this morning. I’ve
paid the one that failed from another account. Lots of paying, this time of
year.
If this business about the Mayan calendar proves right, the
world will end the day before we go to Loch Fyne. That will be a
disappointment.
Miscellany
There was an article in this week’s Sunday Times about the
new Canadian Governor of the Bank of England. It said that his “firebrand wife”
is “prone to frequent outbursts of anti-capitalism and yoghurt knitting
patterns”. That’s a new one. Neither yoghurt nor knitting was mentioned in the
rest of the article.
Rosesmama and Catmum, thank you for the pointer to the Turban(d) pattern
(Ravelry link) – I’ve downloaded and printed.
Ha, the yoghurt knitting pattern comment reminded me of our standing description "knit your own yoghurt types" when we lived in Ireland. There were a lot of mainland Europeans who came to live in the south west of Ireland and tried to be self sustaining. I must add that it was affectionately meant as we shared many of their sentiments.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the cloud - it often takes a painful loss to teach one the benefit of backing up - dont ask how I know.
Dawn
We have "knit your own yoghurt" types in rural East Anglia, too. Usually up for the weekends, driving 4WDs and wearing fancy wellies, unlike us local peasants with old bangers and dirty black/green wellies.
ReplyDeleteAs a Canadian, I must say that I have never heard the "knit your own yoghurt" expression. And what does his wife have to do with the New Guy's ability to do the job for which he was hired?!
ReplyDeleteI'm getting hungry & laughing. Yoghurt knitting?? Vatican Pie??
ReplyDeleteDo you suppose it could possibly be 'knit your own yurt'? And the spell check auto-zapped it? How bizarre. Please keep us apprised, should a clarification come along!
ReplyDeleteSo... I looked up "knitting yoghurt" in the urban dictionary. Sufice to say I don't think the Sunday Times is quite that risque. Although, I'm Canadian; for all I know it is.
ReplyDeleteMonica
Definitely a derogatory term for "tree-hugging liberals" and also implies that "A yoghurt knitter is generally ineffectual. He impedes or tries to impede others rather than actually going out and doing something."
ReplyDeleteOk, now I have to go find the urban dictionary. Never a dull moment in your comments section Jean.
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