| Date: | 2009-07-10 21:28 |
| Subject: | The Hair |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  cheerful |
( before )
( after )
I'm very pleased with it :D not that it will ever look that straight again ;)
AND, i have a ponytail to send to the Little Princess Trust (the make wigs for children with Cancer) :)
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Well, not quite sheared, but after work my lovely husband is driving me out to the wilds of Nether Heage to see Emma who will hopefully work wonders on my hair. I am hoping to come out with less of it, thus making it easier to manage, and a style that will stay looking OK with my minimal hair maintenance :)
I'm thinking about getting before and after pictures... :D
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I came to fully appreciate the seat in our shower a few months ago, because sometimes I just do not have the spoons to stand while washing my mane. Today I came to fully understand why some ladies go to the hairdresser a couple of times a week just to get their hair washed. With the pain in my shoulders, elbows, wrists and hands washing my hair this evening was really quite difficult, even with sitting down... I need some of it chopping off!
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| Date: | 2009-07-07 09:07 |
| Subject: | Cursed weather |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  tired |
The change in the last day or so from hot and a bit humid to wet and downright muggy has set my arms and hands off. Arms are doing that weird shaky vibraty feeling thing, and my hands are stiff and achy. Today it will take two hands to lift a mug of coffee, and typing hurts despite this morning's horse pill. Bah!
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I have been sent a tiny bit of Colinette Jitterbug to use in my recipe for fish blanket... I think I'm in love!
This could get dangerous
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I am mighty glad I keep an emergency bang hat in the office, it has been hurridly applied as the sky darkens, and the lightening and thunder start.
I hope the storm has passed by the time I want to go home, getting to the station with my bang hat on will be very tricky
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| Date: | 2009-07-04 18:32 |
| Subject: | garden fibre |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | tired |
I have had a good day :) We bought plants at B&Q and I have potted them, the yard is looking very good now :) I have finished washing and rinsing my fleece and now it's drying, the next challenge will be working out how to use carders. I've also been playing with my drop spindle, once i discovered fibre needed drafting before spinning the whole process became much easier, and I now have some handspun yarn of varying thickness and backache. spinning is going to take a lot of practice :D
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| Date: | 2009-07-02 13:44 |
| Subject: | sparkling guava |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | cheerful |
The Rubicon van is back! :)
Today's offering is sparkling guava, and we have again managed to get two slabs of drinks from them for the office. I don't know about the other building, but the fridge in ours is already heaving with yesterday's sparkling lychees. Not going to need to buy pop for a while :)
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| Date: | 2009-07-01 16:13 |
| Subject: | Tennis |
| Security: | Public |
Hmm... doesn't look the tennis will still be on by the time I get home. Might have to sit in the evening sun and do battle with the drop spindle instead ;)
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Coo! The Rubicon van is back outside our office. After the freebies of mango juice cartons a couple of weeks ago we were all waiting expectantly to see what they might be offering today.
Sparkling lychee juice drink.
Between our office of 20 people we have been given 2 pallets of the cans, not to mention the people who have been handed one or two on their way past. That's a lot of sparkling lychee.
I have sampled it, and it's not as weird as it sounds, it's actually very refreshing :) Might bring some home for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fen_wolfchile :)
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| Date: | 2009-06-30 21:24 |
| Subject: | sheepiness |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | cheerful |
woo hoo! fen_wolfchile went to the post office today and picked up my parcel. It turned out to be two parcels!
Parcel one contained a bottom whorl drop spindle, some natural coloured batt, and some very lovely hand dyed 4 ply.
Parcel two contained sheep! :D not whole sheeps, but sheep fleece, creamy Welsh ewe fleece in fact. Just need to wait until the weekend until I can unwrap it fully and start washing it or the whole house will smell (even more) of sheep! :D
I may need a spinning icon...
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| Date: | 2009-06-29 10:57 |
| Subject: | A fine time |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | cheerful |
Overall I have had a jolly fine weekend, despite not sleeping terribly well most of last week – I may be forced to admit that this is the wine, as I slept fine last night and I hadn’t had any.
On Saturday we wandered over to fen_wolfchile’s parents’ so they could see their grandson, and after a very yummy lunch Kris, David and I drew some more giraffes :)
Yesterday Kris had to be home by lunch time, so after he’d been dropped off fen_wolfchile and I spent the afternoon in the garden. I managed to finish the front and back of my sweater, so just the sleeves to go and then I have to work out how to sew it all together. fen_wolfchile sorted out a water butt to collect rainwater for me, then declared war on the BBQ at the end of the garden. It’s no longer there, and by the end of the week should have been replaced by some gravel. We even tidied the yukka!
In anticipation of the expected heatwave I have booked Friday off as holiday to get optimum basking done :D
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Come on now everyone, I have drawn giraffes, fen_wolfchile has drawn giraffes, even rinkyandmerlin has drawn a giraffe.
This is unmitigated sillyness in the extreme, you should all be drawing giraffes! :D
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yey! woo_diaries is heading into Nottingham with her hubby to be, we are going to meet up for an al fresco sandwich :D
I will try not to come home with yarn, two knitters together could be dangerous :D
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| Date: | 2009-06-26 09:09 |
| Subject: | ugh |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | tired |
There I was thinking that yesterday afternoon's crash would be over by now. Nope. It's arguably worse now as I've had another night of poor sleep. I'm tired, I ache, I'm moving really slowly, and I am beginning to doubt the wisdom of leaving a couple of jobs until today as I am no less foggy than yesterday afternoon when they came in.
I have resorted to a flapjack and caffeine to try and kick start my brain nito being productive.
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I was just treated to lunch at The Walk Cafe in Nottingham.
It is licensed to sell scrumptiuos things :D
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Due to a lack of spoons last night I sat and gave my aching hands and brain a night off from knitting. Which did lead to the question “what did I do with my evenings before I took up knitting?”
The answer it seems was drink too much which, I must add, is not what I did last night. Last night I looked at giraffes, emailed a pattern to a friend, and played quite a lot of scrabble :)
Probably going back to the knitting tonight :)
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| Date: | 2009-06-22 18:55 |
| Subject: | Giraffes! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | cheerful |
Ever so rarely i remember how to draw :)
( giraffes! )
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| Date: | 2009-06-22 14:45 |
| Subject: | TAG dyddgu |
| Security: | Public |
How did you learn how to spin?
I’ve been looking at it, and while one day I’d like to turn sheep into yarn, I suspect the easiest way might be to first learn to spin fluffy stuff into yarn. Then learn to make the fluffy stuff myself (see my grasp of technical terms! :D)
I suspect I need some kind of spindle (drop spindle?), and a supply of fluffy stuff. Where should I start looking? And what is the fluffy stuff called? (Bats? Roving? I got very confused)
Thank you :D
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| Date: | 2009-06-22 12:35 |
| Subject: | Giraffes |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | amused |
I have got the ladies in the office playing with the giraffes :D
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