Just as we were getting ready to head off the Postie turned up with "another parcel for you" as he put it! hehehe
I couldn't leave it to open when i got home on Monday so tore it open for a squish - how childish!!
As well as the lovely yarns that my Santa sent me she had knitted me a gorgeous pair of "Bluebell Mitts" in burgundy Karisma but they came away with me this weekend where they were much appreciated in the icy coldness!
On Thursday i decided i wanted a new hat for Halloween ;o)
With just a day (well, Thursday evening anyway!) to make it i settled on Jackyll and Hide from Knitty. Now, i don't like masks, they terrify me, as do clowns and gimps and well... this balaclava but i figured that as i would be wearing it i wouldn't have to look at it ;o)
The picture below is my progress as of Friday morning, i had the rib on a provisional cast-on with the intention of knitting the bottom section on the journey up to Santa Pod, and blow me, it only bloody worked!!
I couldn't leave it to open when i got home on Monday so tore it open for a squish - how childish!!
As well as the lovely yarns that my Santa sent me she had knitted me a gorgeous pair of "Bluebell Mitts" in burgundy Karisma but they came away with me this weekend where they were much appreciated in the icy coldness!
On Thursday i decided i wanted a new hat for Halloween ;o)
With just a day (well, Thursday evening anyway!) to make it i settled on Jackyll and Hide from Knitty. Now, i don't like masks, they terrify me, as do clowns and gimps and well... this balaclava but i figured that as i would be wearing it i wouldn't have to look at it ;o)
The picture below is my progress as of Friday morning, i had the rib on a provisional cast-on with the intention of knitting the bottom section on the journey up to Santa Pod, and blow me, it only bloody worked!!
I didn't get round to sewing in that end though!
This is the finished scariness on Sunday, i did my usual trick of avoiding all cameras for the whole weekend :oD
On Saturday evening they lit the fire with the Jet Truck, it's an awesome sight to see, unfortunately as they were carghing £2 for aprogramme we didn't have one... we found out at 4.12pm that the fire was going to be lit at 4.15pm and with about quarter of amile to travel, through mud, people and a really cold wind we arrived in time to see the flames leaping in the air and the fire truck driving back down the road :o(
The fire was AWESOME though and despite the rain it was still burning on Sunday afternoon when we left, i was sure that it couldn't have survived the rain, but wasn't going to get soaked through again just to go and see as the fire was the other side of the track to where we had camped and it would have involved a looooooooooong walk round in nearly horizontal rain!! :o(
I reckon the pile of firewood was a good 40 foot high, maybe more! It was HUGE! You could feel the heat from it 100 yards away, seriously, it was HOT! I didn't want to leave but the rain was starting when they lit it and we were getting hungry for some dinner so we wandered back round and went to the cafe, just as we finished dinner the fireworks started so we stood out and watched them, it wasn't til i visited the loo afterwards that i realised with the rain blowing into my back i was soaked through and had a small panic until i got back to the van and into dry clothes.
Note for next year... take more than two pairs of trousers and get more long johns, one pair is NOT enough!
So, a bit of a washout really with barely any racing and me not actually seeing any, but at least we now know we can fit 10 people in our van, with the bed up! :oD
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maybe you should knit yourself a pair of longjohns out of sock yarn for next year??! you're braver than me - the only thing I set foot outside for on Saturday was a bag of coal for the fire!
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