Mundane News

[Accy cyclist]

I've been awake since 5.20. I thought about going for a "power walk" around the local park,but every time i'm about to set off the heavens open.
Will this continuous rain ever end?!

1 hr 45 min,10 times around the park and nearby hilly climbs "power walk" completed!

 

[ianrauk]

Double dose today

 

[Illaveago]

It's a rather fab 25c at the moment. The French are striking again.

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Do you mean they are brightly coloured?

 

[Speicher]

I still have a vacancy for a Chef.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have decided to have hobby to do when the weather is bad this winter, so i have decided to do some knitting. Its been years since i did any, and to be honest, i can't even find my knitting neddles now, so i have ordered some.

I can't follow a knitting pattern for love nor money, and the last time i tried to knit a jumper, it ended up looking more like something that would fit Quasi Modo perfectly. Bearing that in mind, i am going to attempt to make a blanket or throw. How hard can it be for goodness sake.

If it ends up looking like a god awful mess, i shall throw it in the bin and keep quiet.

 

[Speicher]

My very young great nephew is visiting today. He is very shy.

 

[Speicher]

I have decided to have hobby to do when the weather is bad this winter, so i have decided to do some knitting. Its been years since i did any, and to be honest, i can't even find my knitting neddles now, so i have ordered some.

I can't follow a knitting pattern for love nor money, and the last time i tried to knit a jumper, it ended up looking more like something that would fit Quasi Modo perfectly. Bearing that in mind, i am going to attempt to make a blanket or throw. How hard can it be for goodness sake.

If it ends up looking like a god awful mess, i shall throw it in the bin and keep quiet.

If you are using neddles instead of needles, therein lies your problem.

There are lots of sites with patterns that are free to download, including easy ones. If it ended up way too big, perhaps your tension was incorrect.

 

[welsh dragon]

If you are using neddles instead of needles, therein lies your problem.

There are lots of sites with patterns that are free to download, including easy ones. If it ended up way too big, perhaps your tension was incorrect.

Indeed. I may have been trying to find neddles. .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've had a great yoga class this morning, I'm back at Woodside, I had tried a class closer to home to cut back on the driving but it didn't suite so I'm back in the class I've been doing for the last eighteen months. Pelvic curls and hip twists this morning, also sideways cat, I'm used to normal cat but can't remember doing the sideways one before.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I have clouds coming in from the very outside edge of the former hurricane, but that's usually the only way we get rain in early autumn. Maybe some scattered showers.

 

[Oxo]

I've had a great yoga class this morning, I'm back at Woodside, I had tried a class closer to home to cut back on the driving but it didn't suite so I'm back in the class I've been doing for the last eighteen months. Pelvic curls and hip twists this morning, also sideways cat, I'm used to normal cat but can't remember doing the sideways one before.

There aren't any normal cats, it would appear, in the life of forum members.

 

[Oxo]

If it ends up looking like a god awful mess, i shall throw it in the bin and keep quiet.

Shout it from the rooftops, after all, a throw is a throw.

 

[Speicher]

Indeed. I may have been trying to find neddles. .

I would also not start to learn to knit with cheap wool. A consistent and inexpensive brand that I like is James C Brett. They do a "marble" wool in double knit and chunky, in a huge variety of colours. Bear in mind that the Chunky version is in balls of 200g, not the usual 100g. You could do a lovely scarf as a first item, and then progress from there.

A bargain basement wool may have knots in it, or easily get knotted, and/or split, and then you will get frustrated. I would, if I was you, start with a good quality yarn, that can be unpicked and reknitted if necessary.

 

[Speicher]

I am struggling to concentrate today. One of the neighbours opposite me is very seriously ill. This morning, I am reliably informed that a Hospice nurse was there for about two hours. He seemed very healthy until about two months ago.

 

[Speicher]

Tis nice and pleasantly warm and sunny here, so I will be gardening.