I've finished knitting the Iris scarf/shawl.  I found sufficient beads.  Of, I hope, toning colours and shades.  I managed to read the lace patterns in the correct direction, eventually.  I even cast off while watching TV - which might be why I cast off on a purl row rather than purling that row and casting off on the next knit row, but it looks ok ( Read more... )

After all the recent brouhaha about the price of milk - specifically the price paid to dairy farmers (23.66p/l) vs what it costs to produce (32p/l) various supermarket chains are promising to pay more ( Read more... )

Time To Join Up Our Thinking

Aaaarrrggh!  I had just about gotten my blog written today when Firefox went & updated.  Needless to say the "Restore from Saved Draft" facility didn't.  So that's another one.  Mind you, the "Update" box has stopped flashing off & on each time the Autosave cuts in, so it's not entirely bad!

Meanwhile, unlike my ( Read more... )