I just rang the hospital to mention that I would, perhaps someday, like to be parted from my tonsils and how much longer would it be? The waiting list is now at six months (it was three months when I saw the ENT person initially) AARRRGGGGGHHHHH.
So, I rang the Nuffield (private hospital in Lincoln) to see how much a tonsillectomy would cost. £1700. Hmm. Maybe not then.
(£1700?!?! It only takes 45 minutes! It's two little bits of bleurgh to chop off. Monkey could do it! Although I'm not going to let him.)
BUT the good news is that I've been given an "angel" for the One Skein Secret Pal exchange. My original spoiler bailed on me and I was feeling really fed up with the whole thing, but now I have an angel!! :-)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Cranberry
I finally got Cranberry sewn together this week. It took several evenings and most of last night watching "The Doomsday Code" (about the book of Revelation, the people who take it literally (anybody heard of historical context then?! There are some seriously ill-informed people out there) and the effect they're having on modern foreign policy), to get it finished. (was that just the most ungrammatical sentence ever?) But anyway, back to Cranberry. I'm very pleased to say that the Finishing Techniques course I went on back in June was very worthwhile as mattress stitch is now a piece of cake. Well, it was up the sides anyway, the sleeves were slightly more tricky.
An attempt at taking a photo in front of a mirror. Propped against a wall, cos I STILL haven't got any mirrors up.
And Cranberry recling on the bench outside (as neighbour looks over the fence with a "she [as in me] really is stark raving bonkers" expression on her face).
And one of the mattress stitched side seams!
Cranberry was my longest ever WIP. I bought some of the yarn (Jaegar Chamonix) in the John Lewis summer sale last July. I got back to my friend's house and realised I didn't have enough balls to make anything more than a scarf so decided to go back for more the next day. Which was July 7th. So I didn't get very far.
The rest of July and most of August was spent trying to track more Chamonix down. Finally, I got hold of some. Then, on Christmas Eve I photocopied the pattern to start making it over Christmas. Early in January I comment on what a quick knit this pattern is (having finished just the back). Then in February I got a bit distracted by the Knitting Olympics. But in March she grew and grew, and finally was finished and blocked. But then I decided to buy a house and the weather got really warm and nothing else happened to Cranberry until last week.
So:
Pattern: Cranberry from Jaeger handknits JB10
Yarn: Jaeger Chamonix (48% angora, 47% merino, 5% polyamide), 11 balls
Needles: 6.5 and 5.5mm
Thanks to Mary Anne for the link to a monkey clock for my sidebar. I know the time is wrong, but we've not got that much more of British Summer Time left so I've just put it on GMT to save having to change it later!
Books read most recently:
Minaret by Leila Aboulela, a Sudanese writer. I took this one on holiday with me and it's a fascinating read. It's about a westernised Sudanese girl who is forced into exile in London after the coup in her country. She gradually loses everything she has but finds friendship and faith at Regent's Park mosque, before falling in love with the son of her employer. I liked the different perspective on London she brings (very very different from Monica Ali's Brick Lane) and the way she feels about her faith and wearing a hijab etc. I found the femininity within Islam very surprising as it wasn't something I'd even thought of before.
and
Theodora's Wedding by Penny Culliford. Absolutely hilarious and a v. quick read (read it on the way to London on Friday!). The books are larger than life (in the same way as Bridget Jones!) and full of characters with impossible names (which is part of the hilarity) and I'm very glad my church is nothing like St Norbert's (although their new vicar sounds rather funky) but there is a vein of truth in the whole thing which makes it very definitely worth reading. Bit like Bridget Jones really, although I can't imagine this one being made into a film!
I've just re-volunteered as a Guider to work with a Guide company, and possibly a Ranger company too, here in the village. I asked around at church, as Guides is usually a great way to meet people and I haven't really met anyone around here at all yet (too much time spent away with work!). Possibly I'm being slightly crazy thinking I can fit Guides in too (considering how much moaning I've been doing recently about not having any time for anything!) but it should be doable. The meetings don't start until 7.30, and I usually get home from work between 6.30 and 7, so that's OK, and they only meet round the corner from my house... Am going along for a trial meeting on Tuesday night.
Oh, and at the careers doyoumewhatdoyoucallit on Friday putting "knitting" on my CV was a resounding success! Supposedly it shows that I'm well-rounded, intriguing and balanced! (well, of course, we all knew that didn't we?!). I suspect it's more the knitting group, than the knitting itself they were interested in though...
An attempt at taking a photo in front of a mirror. Propped against a wall, cos I STILL haven't got any mirrors up.
And Cranberry recling on the bench outside (as neighbour looks over the fence with a "she [as in me] really is stark raving bonkers" expression on her face).
And one of the mattress stitched side seams!Cranberry was my longest ever WIP. I bought some of the yarn (Jaegar Chamonix) in the John Lewis summer sale last July. I got back to my friend's house and realised I didn't have enough balls to make anything more than a scarf so decided to go back for more the next day. Which was July 7th. So I didn't get very far.
The rest of July and most of August was spent trying to track more Chamonix down. Finally, I got hold of some. Then, on Christmas Eve I photocopied the pattern to start making it over Christmas. Early in January I comment on what a quick knit this pattern is (having finished just the back). Then in February I got a bit distracted by the Knitting Olympics. But in March she grew and grew, and finally was finished and blocked. But then I decided to buy a house and the weather got really warm and nothing else happened to Cranberry until last week.
So:
Pattern: Cranberry from Jaeger handknits JB10
Yarn: Jaeger Chamonix (48% angora, 47% merino, 5% polyamide), 11 balls
Needles: 6.5 and 5.5mm
Thanks to Mary Anne for the link to a monkey clock for my sidebar. I know the time is wrong, but we've not got that much more of British Summer Time left so I've just put it on GMT to save having to change it later!
Books read most recently:
Minaret by Leila Aboulela, a Sudanese writer. I took this one on holiday with me and it's a fascinating read. It's about a westernised Sudanese girl who is forced into exile in London after the coup in her country. She gradually loses everything she has but finds friendship and faith at Regent's Park mosque, before falling in love with the son of her employer. I liked the different perspective on London she brings (very very different from Monica Ali's Brick Lane) and the way she feels about her faith and wearing a hijab etc. I found the femininity within Islam very surprising as it wasn't something I'd even thought of before.
and
Theodora's Wedding by Penny Culliford. Absolutely hilarious and a v. quick read (read it on the way to London on Friday!). The books are larger than life (in the same way as Bridget Jones!) and full of characters with impossible names (which is part of the hilarity) and I'm very glad my church is nothing like St Norbert's (although their new vicar sounds rather funky) but there is a vein of truth in the whole thing which makes it very definitely worth reading. Bit like Bridget Jones really, although I can't imagine this one being made into a film!
I've just re-volunteered as a Guider to work with a Guide company, and possibly a Ranger company too, here in the village. I asked around at church, as Guides is usually a great way to meet people and I haven't really met anyone around here at all yet (too much time spent away with work!). Possibly I'm being slightly crazy thinking I can fit Guides in too (considering how much moaning I've been doing recently about not having any time for anything!) but it should be doable. The meetings don't start until 7.30, and I usually get home from work between 6.30 and 7, so that's OK, and they only meet round the corner from my house... Am going along for a trial meeting on Tuesday night.
Oh, and at the careers doyoumewhatdoyoucallit on Friday putting "knitting" on my CV was a resounding success! Supposedly it shows that I'm well-rounded, intriguing and balanced! (well, of course, we all knew that didn't we?!). I suspect it's more the knitting group, than the knitting itself they were interested in though...
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Mad deliveries
I'm having trouble with deliveries at the moment. Anne sent me a fab surprise parcel, which got delivered two doors down as I was out on Saturday - but the postman didn't leave a card so I didn't know it was there! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Although it was a nice surprise when my neighbour knocked on my door late on Monday night with it!
The parcel was a mixture of housewarming and to make up for not going to Greenbelt. So there is a Greenbelt tea towel (with a loop, very important as I only have a hook now for hanging up tea towels, and most of mine don't have loops, so a dull evening of loop-sewing beckons sometime), a VERY funny card, an echinacea and raspberry tea bag (to kill my tonsils stone dead) and the next two Theodora books (which Anne's read and is passing on, so if anyone wants to read after me, let me know!). Theodora is the Christian version of Bridges Jones and is very very amusing in a highly silly way. Much like BJ herself really.
Then my veg box got delivered (totally inexplicably) two doors up (ie the other way) to the Chinese takeaway on the corner of my road. Fortunately I got it back before they started cooking with it. More yum contents and I identified everything this time! No purple veg this time either (unless beetroot counts?). Mary Anne's post from last week contained a link to this blog, which has some wonderful veggie recipes (and highly tasty looking pictures) and knitting too.
And here is my knitting from last week in Edinburgh- 3.5 blanket squares! So only 44.5 to go then. I like the pattern, and there is a fair amount of variety in it to keep me interested. The squares themselves grew quite quickly (I would have got more done if there hadn't been such fantastic views from the train!). The yarn is James C Brett Kool Kotton.
I'm off to London tomorrow for a "recent graduate day" at the professional body HQ. I need to take my CV along to have it "checked" but am still thinking about how best to update it. I've added "knitting" to my skills section but haven't done anything else yet. I have decided what knitting to take for the train, however and which book to take along...
I hate careers type days. They always end up asking awkward questions, such as:
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?"
Preferred answer:
"Married with quintuplets"
Answer they're expecting:
"Running the British Library/doing something incredibly high-powered in management/ discovering a new way of doing something very scary involving computers, or taxonomies, or something like that"
And on a much more interesting topic - I've booked to go on Skip North in March and also arranged a B & B for during the Knitting & Stitching Show at Harrogate! So if anyone is going to be in Harrogate on the Friday, that's the day I'm going to be around!
The parcel was a mixture of housewarming and to make up for not going to Greenbelt. So there is a Greenbelt tea towel (with a loop, very important as I only have a hook now for hanging up tea towels, and most of mine don't have loops, so a dull evening of loop-sewing beckons sometime), a VERY funny card, an echinacea and raspberry tea bag (to kill my tonsils stone dead) and the next two Theodora books (which Anne's read and is passing on, so if anyone wants to read after me, let me know!). Theodora is the Christian version of Bridges Jones and is very very amusing in a highly silly way. Much like BJ herself really.
Then my veg box got delivered (totally inexplicably) two doors up (ie the other way) to the Chinese takeaway on the corner of my road. Fortunately I got it back before they started cooking with it. More yum contents and I identified everything this time! No purple veg this time either (unless beetroot counts?). Mary Anne's post from last week contained a link to this blog, which has some wonderful veggie recipes (and highly tasty looking pictures) and knitting too.
And here is my knitting from last week in Edinburgh- 3.5 blanket squares! So only 44.5 to go then. I like the pattern, and there is a fair amount of variety in it to keep me interested. The squares themselves grew quite quickly (I would have got more done if there hadn't been such fantastic views from the train!). The yarn is James C Brett Kool Kotton.
I'm off to London tomorrow for a "recent graduate day" at the professional body HQ. I need to take my CV along to have it "checked" but am still thinking about how best to update it. I've added "knitting" to my skills section but haven't done anything else yet. I have decided what knitting to take for the train, however and which book to take along...I hate careers type days. They always end up asking awkward questions, such as:
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?"
Preferred answer:
"Married with quintuplets"
Answer they're expecting:
"Running the British Library/doing something incredibly high-powered in management/ discovering a new way of doing something very scary involving computers, or taxonomies, or something like that"
And on a much more interesting topic - I've booked to go on Skip North in March and also arranged a B & B for during the Knitting & Stitching Show at Harrogate! So if anyone is going to be in Harrogate on the Friday, that's the day I'm going to be around!
Mad deliveries
I'm having trouble with deliveries at the moment. Anne sent me a fab surprise parcel, which got delivered two doors down as I was out on Saturday - but the postman didn't leave a card so I didn't know it was there! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Although it was a nice surprise when my neighbour knocked on my door late on Monday night with it!
The parcel was a mixture of housewarming and to make up for not going to Greenbelt. So there is a Greenbelt tea towel (with a loop, very important as I only have a hook now for hanging up tea towels, and most of mine don't have loops, so a dull evening of loop-sewing beckons sometime), a VERY funny card, an echinacea and raspberry tea bag (to kill my tonsils stone dead) and the next two Theodora books (which Anne's read and is passing on, so if anyone wants to read after me, let me know!). Theodora is the Christian version of Bridges Jones and is very very amusing in a highly silly way. Much like BJ herself really.
Then my veg box got delivered (totally inexplicably) two doors up (ie the other way) to the Chinese takeaway on the corner of my road. Fortunately I got it back before they started cooking with it. More yum contents and I identified everything this time! No purple veg this time either (unless beetroot counts?). Mary Anne's post from last week contained a link to this blog, which has some wonderful veggie recipes (and highly tasty looking pictures) and knitting too.
And here is my knitting from last week in Edinburgh- 3.5 blanket squares! So only 44.5 to go then. I like the pattern, and there is a fair amount of variety in it to keep me interested. The squares themselves grew quite quickly (I would have got more done if there hadn't been such fantastic views from the train!). The yarn is James C Brett Kool Kotton.
I'm off to London tomorrow for a "recent graduate day" at the professional body HQ. I need to take my CV along to have it "checked" but am still thinking about how best to update it. I've added "knitting" to my skills section but haven't done anything else yet. I have decided what knitting to take for the train, however and which book to take along...
I hate careers type days. They always end up asking awkward questions, such as:
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?"
Preferred answer:
"Married with quintuplets"
Answer they're expecting:
"Running the British Library/doing something incredibly high-powered in management/ discovering a new way of doing something very scary involving computers, or taxonomies, or something like that"
And on a much more interesting topic - I've booked to go on Skip North in March and also arranged a B & B for during the Knitting & Stitching Show at Harrogate! So if anyone is going to be in Harrogate on the Friday, that's the day I'm going to be around!
The parcel was a mixture of housewarming and to make up for not going to Greenbelt. So there is a Greenbelt tea towel (with a loop, very important as I only have a hook now for hanging up tea towels, and most of mine don't have loops, so a dull evening of loop-sewing beckons sometime), a VERY funny card, an echinacea and raspberry tea bag (to kill my tonsils stone dead) and the next two Theodora books (which Anne's read and is passing on, so if anyone wants to read after me, let me know!). Theodora is the Christian version of Bridges Jones and is very very amusing in a highly silly way. Much like BJ herself really.
Then my veg box got delivered (totally inexplicably) two doors up (ie the other way) to the Chinese takeaway on the corner of my road. Fortunately I got it back before they started cooking with it. More yum contents and I identified everything this time! No purple veg this time either (unless beetroot counts?). Mary Anne's post from last week contained a link to this blog, which has some wonderful veggie recipes (and highly tasty looking pictures) and knitting too.And here is my knitting from last week in Edinburgh- 3.5 blanket squares! So only 44.5 to go then. I like the pattern, and there is a fair amount of variety in it to keep me interested. The squares themselves grew quite quickly (I would have got more done if there hadn't been such fantastic views from the train!). The yarn is James C Brett Kool Kotton.I'm off to London tomorrow for a "recent graduate day" at the professional body HQ. I need to take my CV along to have it "checked" but am still thinking about how best to update it. I've added "knitting" to my skills section but haven't done anything else yet. I have decided what knitting to take for the train, however and which book to take along...I hate careers type days. They always end up asking awkward questions, such as:
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?"
Preferred answer:
"Married with quintuplets"
Answer they're expecting:
"Running the British Library/doing something incredibly high-powered in management/ discovering a new way of doing something very scary involving computers, or taxonomies, or something like that"
And on a much more interesting topic - I've booked to go on Skip North in March and also arranged a B & B for during the Knitting & Stitching Show at Harrogate! So if anyone is going to be in Harrogate on the Friday, that's the day I'm going to be around!
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