I'm hiding...
Apologies for not being a good commentor this last week or more. I have been hiding from my laptop....
I should be writing; the next chapter of Going Home is currently a series of bits that need putting into a sensible order and made to work as one thing, and I want to do it but then look at it and put it off, so I am being 'very busy' doing other things :)
There has been more jam making (it is still coming out a bit too soft-set but it does taste OK) I made scones for the Tuesday Group at church, using up left over mincemeat and raisins. And there has been quite a bit of procrastiknitting - it is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution this year and all around Britain coastal towns and villages will be marking this. Sir William Hillary, the founder, lived here in Douglas and was actually a member of the lifeboat crew, and knitters all over the island are working on displays for all 5 of our lifeboat stations.
Remember when I knitted 2 Queen Camillas for the coronation? Well I was given one back with the suggestion that I turn her into a member of one of the lifeboat crews. Today I managed to put off writing by knitting her life-jacket! I've also knitted a couple of little yachts.
That's crew person Camilla before I added her lifejacket - still needs her yellow wellies.
Then, over the past 10 days, I have read all the Theodora Braithwaite mysteries...
Oh - another picture - the storm on Sunday has actually partly uprooted our laburnum tree -
I think it is a nudge to replan the garden a bit and so I have arranged for the landscape gardeners that did my sister's new garden to come and have a look.
I have been out for dinner with 'the girls', and then out to lunch with the NYM's mum. I've even tidied the cupboard under the stairs a bit!
And just at the moment I am updating my journal rather than writing Going Home...
I should be writing; the next chapter of Going Home is currently a series of bits that need putting into a sensible order and made to work as one thing, and I want to do it but then look at it and put it off, so I am being 'very busy' doing other things :)
There has been more jam making (it is still coming out a bit too soft-set but it does taste OK) I made scones for the Tuesday Group at church, using up left over mincemeat and raisins. And there has been quite a bit of procrastiknitting - it is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution this year and all around Britain coastal towns and villages will be marking this. Sir William Hillary, the founder, lived here in Douglas and was actually a member of the lifeboat crew, and knitters all over the island are working on displays for all 5 of our lifeboat stations.
Remember when I knitted 2 Queen Camillas for the coronation? Well I was given one back with the suggestion that I turn her into a member of one of the lifeboat crews. Today I managed to put off writing by knitting her life-jacket! I've also knitted a couple of little yachts.
That's crew person Camilla before I added her lifejacket - still needs her yellow wellies.
Then, over the past 10 days, I have read all the Theodora Braithwaite mysteries...
Oh - another picture - the storm on Sunday has actually partly uprooted our laburnum tree -
I think it is a nudge to replan the garden a bit and so I have arranged for the landscape gardeners that did my sister's new garden to come and have a look.
I have been out for dinner with 'the girls', and then out to lunch with the NYM's mum. I've even tidied the cupboard under the stairs a bit!
And just at the moment I am updating my journal rather than writing Going Home...