My Nanny said

it's always good to ask questions :oD

Your Word is "Why"

You see life as complicated and intriguing. The only thing you know for sure is that you haven't figured it all out yet. You question everything and believe very little. And whatever you believe is likely to change. You are interested in theories, philosophies, and religions... even if you don't buy into any of them. You are also fascinated by how things work. You'd like to understand as much in the world as possible.

What's Your Word?

More Finished things!

Oh yeah baby, i'm on a rollllllll... ;o)

I worked out where i was going wrong with the Centuria hat, i was missing the K1, M1 at the beginning of the W&T row which was making the W&T be in the wrong place - at one point i had 5 wraps on the same stitch! DOH!
I worked it out though and once i got going there was no stopping me! One hat knitted in two evenings, luvvly jubbly!
Photos to follow, i need a model ;o)

Last night i knit a fingerless mitt, just a basic 2x2 rib done int he round for 3" then flat for 10 rows for the thumb hole then back int he round for another 3". The idea is that they can be worn on either hand and either way up so you can pull them on in a hurry ;o)
They'll be a suprirse pressie for someone, i'm now worrying that they are too basic and i should make her something a bit more fancy, maybe with a couple of cables at the cuff and fingers...
The problem is, once i start thinking like that i end up sitting at the computer looking for the "right" pattern for a couple of hours, then i get sucked into Ravelry even further when i go off and read notes, forum posts, blog posts... so, all that knitting time gets wasted! I think i will stick with what i've already got, i can get the second one finished today and they can go in the post tomorrow ;o)

This evening is nephews Nativity play - i've been every year to either his or his big sister's play and i am so looking forward to it. I have knitting ready to take, i have money for a photo and i have tissues ready cos something about children singing makes me cry!

I've spotted this on a few blogs so i thought i'd give it a go, i'm surprised by the result actually, i'd never have thought of myself as a blue person :o?

Your rainbow is shaded blue.

What is says about you: You are a tranquil person. You appreciate friends who get along with one another. You share hobbies with friends and like trying to fit into their routines.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

I have a huge craving to knit a log cabin blanket and i think i've just found the colours to use for it :oD
I have some of the 400g balls of bonus aran in the loft, one in a lovely spring green and one in a pale denimmy blue, alli need is a ball of loganberry and i'm all set :oD

Book Meme...

It's doing the rounds so i thought i'd jump on the bookwagon ;o)

Instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read.
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’dolin - Louis De Bernieres Mans
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - not entirely true though, i owned it but could never read more than the first few pages cos the thought of it just made me cry too much! :o(
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I think that's 51 out of the 100, mind you most of those i read about 20 years ago - i did love the classics ;o)

ohmygoshigottagged!!

I've been tagged by Jan; these are the rules:

Each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged need to write in their blogs the 7 facts, as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag seven others and list their names on your blog. You have to leave those you plan on tagging a note in their comments so they know that they have been tagged and to read your blog.

Here we go:

1. My daily drive is a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle called Wallybug

2. I have a dent in my shin from when i fell up the stairs on an open backed bus 14 years ago

3. My only visit abroad has been a day trip to Calais last year

4. I gave up smoking on the same day that my best friend gave birth to her second son, but not on purpose

5. I cannot do long division

6. I don't eat fish

7. I've had a constant headache since March 2004!

I tag: Bob, Claire, Hawkesley, O/C Knitiot, Dreamcatcher, Catknit and Terri - hope you guys decide to play along :o)