Sunshine
Admittedly, I did feel a little bit sulky when I noticed that the temperature in Heidelberg was 24 degrees while it is a whopping 15 here. Still, I had sunshine for a good portion of the day. Enough so that I could enjoy all the small blooms in the back yard (ok, garden. I will learn the proper British terminology one of these days. Right about when I finish and head back to Germany.)
When I figured out that it was much warmer outside than inside (heat? what heat? It is May, no one runs heat in May. Even if they had working heat which I don’t.) I opened up doors and windows. With a nice cross breeze I might have suceeded in raising the temp a degree or two. Seems like brick walls hold the cold stubbornly not giving up without hours of coaxing.
I have flowers
None of which show what the lawn is starting to resemble
At least, that is my excuse for not cutting the grass. All those little flower heads would be decapitated. Given a choice, I would much rather have long grass than lose all the flowers. And I would rather look at flowers than do laundry. With a clothes line and sunshine, I didn’t see that opting out would be all that smart.
Spinning
Took the wheels outside
The Paulitz
The Dutch wheel.
Finishing up the first two bobbins of singles
It gives some great colour combinations when plyed. Lazy here – just going from one wheel directly to the Dutch Wheel. A bargin off Ebay a few years ago, the bobbins will hold a good 300 gm of finely spun yarn. With the low ratios, it take forever but is makes it easy to avoid over spinning.
Socks
Anyone else remember the old Sockknitters Listserve? When one new sock knitter mentioned how weird her socks looked, I told her to go and look at the Museum of Odd Socks.
The Barcelona pair doesn’t qualify for membership. I rather like them.
DvD
The BBC production of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: The Moving Finger and At Bertram’s Hotel.
Great productions to knit by.
-Holly
At Bertram’s Hotel is absolutely my favourite. One of these days I’m going to have afternoon tea at Browns in London (Browns played Bertram’s in the movie as it was Christie’s original inspiration). You need a gold credit card, but I still want the experience.
You remind me that I simply must make time for spinning.
spring–yippee!!!!!