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Sunday, August 26, 2007

So what's been happening?

Yup, we're back.

Five weeks in paradise is tough, lemme tell ya. The weather was only so so, but I managed a walk or two most days and the op-shops of the mid-north coast have been completely denuded of hand-knits most of which have been unpicked and some of which have been unravelled, washed and re knitted. Mum knitted her way through two large 8ply cardigans worth of wool and was only slowed down by the need to unpick more jumpers. I have niddy-noddy related strain and bruising, but we have a reasonable amount of yarn to be getting on with.

There is very little knitting to show . I did a lot of knit/tink and knit/rip on the cardie project that travelled with me. The light in our unit was atrocious, Mum's relatives came to visit (3 out of 5 weeks we had visitors) and I did a LOT of driving - this all had adverse effects on knitting time. Beanies were, of course, knitted. Knitting slows my walking speed down to Mum's pace. A TTWC band takes a 2k round trip walk to the beach to watch the waves and check on the progress of the kangaroo family we adopted.

The really poor weather last week (9 inches of rain in 7 days) meant that the planned artfully posed shots of beanies on the beach, beanies with kangaroos and/or kookaburras and beanies in the rain forest didn't happen. Given the state of my garden, though, you'll be seeing a lot of beanies and weeds in the next few days or so.

Only one bobbin was spun due to crammed living quarters and lack of light. I did manage to resist the call of the local alpaca breeder, though, so at least the fibre stash wasn't expanded.

I missed you lot, though. It will take a while before I'm all caught up on blogs.

12 comments:

Denise said...

Yay, you're back! Hope you're feeling refreshed and (somewhat) rested, despite the visitors and driving :)

happyspider said...

Welcome home ^_^ you were missed. take your time catching up... or you'll be in need of another holiday!

AMCSviatko said...

Back just in time for the end of Knit 1 Blog 1. *sniff*

Looking forward to catching up.

Anonymous said...

YAYAYAYAYYY!~!! you're back.

WOOT!

Anonymous said...

Absolutely looking forward to beanies and weeds, or even weenies and beads!!!

twitchy fingers said...

Ah, the universe is restored to balance! Hope to catch up soon.

Bells said...

Welcome home! It's been FOREVER. Glad to have you back.

TinkingBell said...

So pleased to have you back - you've been greatly missed!!!

Olivia said...

Hey it's good to see you're back. You must be looking forward to some 'me' time after all that driving and relatives and all...

Margie said...

Welcome back! :D

Georgie said...

Very good to hear you're home - you were indeed missed.

Looking forward to catching up and hearing about kookaburras and adopted kangaroos and beaches.

chocolatetrudi said...

Welcome back. Sounds like you have a lovely time. Knitting and walking at the same time? Hmm, I might try that.