Thanks to Meadow Yarns I now have my grubby little mitts on a set of Sock Rockets!
I'm so excited, it's ridiculous! :D
I'm so excited, it's ridiculous! :D
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Annoyances
So, i used to be able to e-mail a photo from my phone to Flickr and then it would generate a blog post for me but it seems that is now broken. I can't even blog a photo from Flickr directly.
I have searched the Flickr help files and looked on the forums but it seems there's no fix for it as yet.
Boo!
Also, yesterday i spent a great deal of time cooking.
I made bread. By Hand. It was horrible. Dense, grey, doughy. Bleurgh.
I made "no knead" or "artisan" bread. You mix it up and leave it in a warm place for 12 hours and it goes all gloopy then you bake it in a casserole dish and end up with a lovely ball shaped loaf of crusty bread. Not me. It didn't do anything. It looked exactly the same 12 hours later. I cooked it. It was vile. Beyond words.
I spent the most time lovingly preparing a split pea and vegetable soup to go with the leftover gammon from Sunday. I soaked the split peas overnight on Sunday, gently softened my onion in a little butter, added garlic, half a swede, two carrots, and the split peas along with the stock from cooking the gammon. Boiled for 10 minutes, scooped off the scum and then simmered it gently for 2 hours.
I ended up with a grainy textured swede soup.
I did manage to rescue the soup with a little dab of mint sauce but it wasn't til i was chewing on a bit of gammon that i realised i REALLY don't like hot ham, it's not just sometimes. It's always.
Tonight i am using up more leftover gammon and having ham, egg and chips. What can go wrong??
I have searched the Flickr help files and looked on the forums but it seems there's no fix for it as yet.
Boo!
Also, yesterday i spent a great deal of time cooking.
I made bread. By Hand. It was horrible. Dense, grey, doughy. Bleurgh.
I made "no knead" or "artisan" bread. You mix it up and leave it in a warm place for 12 hours and it goes all gloopy then you bake it in a casserole dish and end up with a lovely ball shaped loaf of crusty bread. Not me. It didn't do anything. It looked exactly the same 12 hours later. I cooked it. It was vile. Beyond words.
I spent the most time lovingly preparing a split pea and vegetable soup to go with the leftover gammon from Sunday. I soaked the split peas overnight on Sunday, gently softened my onion in a little butter, added garlic, half a swede, two carrots, and the split peas along with the stock from cooking the gammon. Boiled for 10 minutes, scooped off the scum and then simmered it gently for 2 hours.
I ended up with a grainy textured swede soup.
I did manage to rescue the soup with a little dab of mint sauce but it wasn't til i was chewing on a bit of gammon that i realised i REALLY don't like hot ham, it's not just sometimes. It's always.
Tonight i am using up more leftover gammon and having ham, egg and chips. What can go wrong??
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Snooooooooooooooooooow!
Well, we finally got it!!
This is the result of less than 24 hours worth!
Fortunately i don't have to go out in it as the cupboards and freezer are always well stocked but Bloke has been unable to go to work.
We live on the top of a hill and our road doesn't seem to have benefitted from the gritting it got on Monday night and the only road in and out of the "village" (don't know what else to call it, we aren't a town!) gets totally gridlocked as people try to struggle up the hill :o(
It's still coming down now and more is forecast...
We were supposed to be meeting up with the nieces on Friday for a birthday remembrance meal for their Mum but i think we'll have to reschedule that :o(
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Snow!
and Mr.Fox ;o)
He wandered around for ages bless him, i want to put some scraps out for him but i know that's not a good thing to do really, specially with Lukey being quite territorial in his garden anyway!
It's still snowing ;o)
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
New Year in Newquay...
Regular blog readers may be aware that we go to Newquay and stay in caravans with our friends at New Year, well, this year we have had to change our plans due to our campervan breaking which is going to eat our money :o(
So... in order to help out with the van fund (and possibly enable us to visit Newquay) i am going to try and raise some money by selling some of my rather large and unlikely to be used stash!
It will be listed on my trade page over at Ravelry, there are a few there to start off but i need to have a proper sort out and be a bit ruthless. I'll be sad to part with some of it but in all reality i am never going to make my way through it all so this is my most sensible option ;o)
Besides, if it means i get to go to Cornwall and visit my niece who moved down there earlier this year then it's got to be worth it!!
So... in order to help out with the van fund (and possibly enable us to visit Newquay) i am going to try and raise some money by selling some of my rather large and unlikely to be used stash!
It will be listed on my trade page over at Ravelry, there are a few there to start off but i need to have a proper sort out and be a bit ruthless. I'll be sad to part with some of it but in all reality i am never going to make my way through it all so this is my most sensible option ;o)
Besides, if it means i get to go to Cornwall and visit my niece who moved down there earlier this year then it's got to be worth it!!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Cookery!
For my birthday i got some lovely cake making books and a really good quality muffin tin so today i decided to finally put them to use!
This is a half batch each of "Chocolate Cream Muffins" and "Chocolate Orange chunk" muffins from "Mad About Muffins"
(Amazon link but i don't earn anything from you clicking through ;o) )
I also got the Leon cookbook after a visit to the restaurant at Bluewater where i had their Gobi curry and fell in love with it!
I have been craving it ever since but today i really wanted some good hearty food so decided it was time to make it. I had intended to halve the recipe to make about 3 portions but i got carried away and forgot so i now have enough to keep me going until Monday! I don't think it'll freeze too well as it's made with cauliflower and sweet potato but i'm pretty sure i can get through most of it before it goes off ;o)
I'll be having it with just some naan bread as there's so much of it i don't want to fill up with rice!
This is a half batch each of "Chocolate Cream Muffins" and "Chocolate Orange chunk" muffins from "Mad About Muffins"
(Amazon link but i don't earn anything from you clicking through ;o) )
I also got the Leon cookbook after a visit to the restaurant at Bluewater where i had their Gobi curry and fell in love with it!
I have been craving it ever since but today i really wanted some good hearty food so decided it was time to make it. I had intended to halve the recipe to make about 3 portions but i got carried away and forgot so i now have enough to keep me going until Monday! I don't think it'll freeze too well as it's made with cauliflower and sweet potato but i'm pretty sure i can get through most of it before it goes off ;o)
I'll be having it with just some naan bread as there's so much of it i don't want to fill up with rice!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Saturday, May 02, 2009
For Lise... my hair story...
You know me, i don't do in a nutshell, sorry folks!
My friend's Mum is a hairdresser, and i needed a trim. I've been thinking of having it cut short for a while but wanted a proper 80's spiral perm first then i was going to get it chopped off after a few months when i was bored with it! I picked out a couple of photos from magazines that were kind of like i wanted, all long choppy layers with lots of thinningy bits cos i have such thick hair. I specifically said i didn't want it short and i didn't want short layers, it just doesn't suit my hair and when she'd finished i had an old lady mullet. One layer was about 2" long, the second layer was about 5" and the third layer just brushed my shoulders.
:o(
I came home, kept looking at it thinking maybe it's just that i am used to having it long, i've been growing it for a few years now, haven't had short hair for a while, maybe that's why i don't like it? Nope, i don't like it cos it's A MULLET and i look like a 50 year old granny!! I spent most of Saturday afternoon and evening in tears, which shocked me as i hadn't realised i was so vain!!
Luckily i was able to get an appointment at Rush the next day and the very lovely Jorge sorted it out for me. He wasn't able to do anything with the top really, except to blend it in a bit but the rest he has thinned out and blended in my three layers, i still have a mullet, granted but at least this is a Rock Chick Mullet and not an Old Granny Mullet!!
It's not a very interesting story, but i really was traumatised! I like it a little more now but i'm still not keen, at least my hair grows fast and will soon need a trim and i know how i want to have it once the top starts growing out so that's something to look forward to ;o)
The moral of the story... NEVER TRUST A HAIRDRESSER!!!
My friend's Mum is a hairdresser, and i needed a trim. I've been thinking of having it cut short for a while but wanted a proper 80's spiral perm first then i was going to get it chopped off after a few months when i was bored with it! I picked out a couple of photos from magazines that were kind of like i wanted, all long choppy layers with lots of thinningy bits cos i have such thick hair. I specifically said i didn't want it short and i didn't want short layers, it just doesn't suit my hair and when she'd finished i had an old lady mullet. One layer was about 2" long, the second layer was about 5" and the third layer just brushed my shoulders.
:o(
I came home, kept looking at it thinking maybe it's just that i am used to having it long, i've been growing it for a few years now, haven't had short hair for a while, maybe that's why i don't like it? Nope, i don't like it cos it's A MULLET and i look like a 50 year old granny!! I spent most of Saturday afternoon and evening in tears, which shocked me as i hadn't realised i was so vain!!
Luckily i was able to get an appointment at Rush the next day and the very lovely Jorge sorted it out for me. He wasn't able to do anything with the top really, except to blend it in a bit but the rest he has thinned out and blended in my three layers, i still have a mullet, granted but at least this is a Rock Chick Mullet and not an Old Granny Mullet!!
It's not a very interesting story, but i really was traumatised! I like it a little more now but i'm still not keen, at least my hair grows fast and will soon need a trim and i know how i want to have it once the top starts growing out so that's something to look forward to ;o)
The moral of the story... NEVER TRUST A HAIRDRESSER!!!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Alien Landscape
It's actually tiny fungus growing on one of those bench seat table thingies that you get in pub gardens, i found it fascinating :oD
We'd gone for a lovely drive out the afternoon before we went to the fairground and ended up in a pub in the country next to a big park where we took the dog for a lovely walk :o)
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
A very Happy New Year!
Well, what with holidaying over the New Year down in Newquay and managing to fall foul of a flu while there i have just about managed to drag myself off the sofa and try to resume that thing called "life"
I'm not making any resolutions, but i do want to try and change some aspects of my life. I need to declutter and reorganise and i need to learn how to manage the housework so that it doesn't end up being a huge amount of effort. Little and often i think will be the key. I might try for a timetable type thing, if i can just get into the habit of dusting or hoovering every day then it will make it all the more manageable, of course, i need to get started first and the house needs some major tidying and cleaning to give me a good base to work from.
The log cabin blankie is coming along well but i've not managed any knitting for a week and i'm getting a bit itchy to do some now so hopefully i'll settle back into that this afternoon and it'll soon be finished and then i can get on with some WIPs! I really want to get the blue camping shawl finished too and i have a couple of odd socks that need partners. Once they're out of the way i shall concentrate on other things. I really want to knit the figure of eight shawl, the laceweight has been maturing in stash since i bought it at Ally Pally and i keep putting it off for some reason, but i absolutely love the shawl and want to have it to wear this summer.
Well, my head has returned to mush and i am struggling to type from within this fog so i'm back off to the sofa to catch up with my Christmas telly. I hope you have a healthy and happy 2009 and that you enjoyed seeing the new year in, however you did it!
*HUGS*
fran x
I'm not making any resolutions, but i do want to try and change some aspects of my life. I need to declutter and reorganise and i need to learn how to manage the housework so that it doesn't end up being a huge amount of effort. Little and often i think will be the key. I might try for a timetable type thing, if i can just get into the habit of dusting or hoovering every day then it will make it all the more manageable, of course, i need to get started first and the house needs some major tidying and cleaning to give me a good base to work from.
The log cabin blankie is coming along well but i've not managed any knitting for a week and i'm getting a bit itchy to do some now so hopefully i'll settle back into that this afternoon and it'll soon be finished and then i can get on with some WIPs! I really want to get the blue camping shawl finished too and i have a couple of odd socks that need partners. Once they're out of the way i shall concentrate on other things. I really want to knit the figure of eight shawl, the laceweight has been maturing in stash since i bought it at Ally Pally and i keep putting it off for some reason, but i absolutely love the shawl and want to have it to wear this summer.
Well, my head has returned to mush and i am struggling to type from within this fog so i'm back off to the sofa to catch up with my Christmas telly. I hope you have a healthy and happy 2009 and that you enjoyed seeing the new year in, however you did it!
*HUGS*
fran x
Monday, December 22, 2008
Christmas veg
are cooked!
My veg box came early, so instead of having it on Wednesday it came yesterday. Today i have cooked the sprouts, broccoli and swede for my dinner, a pile of yummy beetroot, plus i used up some manky old leeks and potatoes from the bottom of the fridge for today's lunch, and some carrots and yellowing brocolli for the ratties so they can have fresh veg every day now and not just when i have it for my dinner :oD
(They don't mind that it's past it's best ::lol::)
I shall cook some potatoes tomorrow for roasting plus mash some for my platter and i'll probably do some carrots as well... i do like my veg on Christmas Day! All i will need to do on Christmas Day is cook the chicken breasts, defrost some Jack Daniels glaze and roast the pre-cooked potatoes. Oh, i do hope my plan works! :oD
While i was doing this i was also having a bit of a tidy in the kitchen and i am happy to report that i have FOUND the kitchen table! Unfortunately i have now lost the bed, so tonight i intend to sort out the pile of clean clothes and reclaim the bed! I intend to work harder at sticking to a cleaning rota in the new year, i shall start out slowly though and not jump in at the deep end cos that'll just put me off. I do need to make some improvements though as the mess is even annoying me now and i'm not normally bothered by piles of stuff ::blushing::
In knitting news, my log cabin itch has been well and truly scratched and i am loving my new project. I'm using Sirdar baby Bamboo and the fabric it's created is just so soft and has a lovely drape. I have two balls of four colours and will just squeeze as much as i can out of them, i shall be sad to part with it but it's for a present ;o)
I was so organised, i even made some sketches of the colour sequence before i started! It's amazing how four colours can look so different together. It's wonderful mindless garter stitch knitting too and i am just loving it!!
My veg box came early, so instead of having it on Wednesday it came yesterday. Today i have cooked the sprouts, broccoli and swede for my dinner, a pile of yummy beetroot, plus i used up some manky old leeks and potatoes from the bottom of the fridge for today's lunch, and some carrots and yellowing brocolli for the ratties so they can have fresh veg every day now and not just when i have it for my dinner :oD
(They don't mind that it's past it's best ::lol::)
I shall cook some potatoes tomorrow for roasting plus mash some for my platter and i'll probably do some carrots as well... i do like my veg on Christmas Day! All i will need to do on Christmas Day is cook the chicken breasts, defrost some Jack Daniels glaze and roast the pre-cooked potatoes. Oh, i do hope my plan works! :oD
While i was doing this i was also having a bit of a tidy in the kitchen and i am happy to report that i have FOUND the kitchen table! Unfortunately i have now lost the bed, so tonight i intend to sort out the pile of clean clothes and reclaim the bed! I intend to work harder at sticking to a cleaning rota in the new year, i shall start out slowly though and not jump in at the deep end cos that'll just put me off. I do need to make some improvements though as the mess is even annoying me now and i'm not normally bothered by piles of stuff ::blushing::
In knitting news, my log cabin itch has been well and truly scratched and i am loving my new project. I'm using Sirdar baby Bamboo and the fabric it's created is just so soft and has a lovely drape. I have two balls of four colours and will just squeeze as much as i can out of them, i shall be sad to part with it but it's for a present ;o)
I was so organised, i even made some sketches of the colour sequence before i started! It's amazing how four colours can look so different together. It's wonderful mindless garter stitch knitting too and i am just loving it!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christmas has come early!
my tree!
I'm off to Southend today to visit with my family and friends and to have a little bit of an early Christmas! We're meeting up for dinner and a quiz and some present swapping. I can't wait!!
I shall be taking the new van and dropping people home afterwards, after all, what's the point of having a mini-bus if you don't make the most of it?! I shall do my best not to prang it like i did the Golf yesterday :o(
It was so stupid, the car had got cold and didn't want to start, every time i got it started it died again and i was getting myself into a right tiz cos my friend had moved his car so i could come off his drive so i was rushing a bit and when i got it going and pulled off the drive i came out the opposite way to how i went on and had to drive past his camper. Unfortunately i misjudged it and as i came past the rear bumper it caught on my rear wheel arch. After some panicked steering wheel manouveres we managed to guide it off as his bumper had actually gone right inside the wheel arch, and i now have a big dent and scratch on my rear wing :o(
I wouldn't mind, but his camper is a VW LT and it's as big as a HOUSE! So stupid, and i'm never going to live it down either. Bloke took a look this morning and came back and said "a scratch!" and then wandered off muttering about how big the van was :o(
Still, it could be worse couldn't it, i could have hit the front passenger wing instead in which case i'd have no car left at all!! :oD
Anyway, back to Christmas!! I put the decorations up on Sunday, i wrote the cards on Monday but haven't put them in the post yet! ::oooops:: and i wrapped the pressies on Tuesday :oD
Today i have to track down some Krispy Kreme Christmas cards, i've been ringing and ringing and nobody wants to answer their phone to me!!
SUCCESS! Bromley have some so i shall nip off there before i head off to Southend, not going to tell Bloke though, it'll be a surprise present for him on Christmas Day ;o)
I love giving people presents, actually i probably like choosing the present more than i like giving it! I usually gauge it wrong with Bloke, and get him something that i think he'll like but which he actually hates but this year i've played it safe and got him a big, fluffy, new bathrobe. He complained a bit when he tried it on... it's too big... it's brown... but i'm hoping that he secretly likes it...
I'm easily pleased, i'm getting some DVDs of much-loved children's programmes - Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and Mr.Benn. I'll be regressing in no time, i might even go over the park for a swing. Do parks still have swings or are they too dangerous as well now? ;o)
Anyway, i'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas, take care of yourselves and i hope the nasty bugs stay away xx
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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?
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
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.
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
Thursday, December 04, 2008
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)
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)
I have a new widget!
Over there, on the left ;o)
Hopefully it will encourage me to knit more! I've added up this year's total so far, i'm hoping to get a couple of hats done this week too, but they are the short row pattern that i have failed with once already so i shan't hold my breath!
Hopefully it will encourage me to knit more! I've added up this year's total so far, i'm hoping to get a couple of hats done this week too, but they are the short row pattern that i have failed with once already so i shan't hold my breath!
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
lucky dip sock yarns from terri
This little lot was a bargain from Terri at CTnY and they arrived today. She's having a destash of her sockyarns and offered them up for ten pound for a lucky dip of 4 balls! How could i resist!!
I really love the two on the right hand side, Opal Rainforest in Veronica die Wilde and an unidentified grey/blue/red mix and the Online feels lovely too, it'll make a very bright and funky pair of socks i think :o)
This marks the end of sockyarn stash enhancement for me for at least the next year. I have plenty to use up and if i keep buying it i'll never knit it all and that would be very sad!
I'm going to try and knit at least a pair of socks a month and i also have some of the earmarked for shawls and stoles - especially some of my lovely Yarn Yard club skeins.
Happy Birthday Sis x
Today would be my sister's birthday had she not died ten years ago.
I try not to feel sad about it though, birthdays are, after all, for celebrating and nobody liked to celebrate more than my sister and me!
I try not to feel sad about it though, birthdays are, after all, for celebrating and nobody liked to celebrate more than my sister and me!
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
The Christmas knitting continues!
I've just finished making my stocking for the CTnY "Christmas Stocking swap" so now all i have to do is get it filled and on it's way. It has to be sent by the 15th of December to arrive before Christmas as i really want my partner to have it to open on Christmas Day. I have a few last minute touches to add and then everything can be wrapped and stuffed in and it can be posted :oD
I'm feeling fairly optimistic that i can do it before the deadline!
I've cast on for Dragon Scarf Number Two and am about a third of my way through it, i am hoping to spend all of today knitting on it so hopefully that will be done by tonight and can be crossed off the list!
Speaking of which, the list looks a little something like this now:
Ruth's socks - done!
Dragon Scarf #1 - done!
Christmas Stocking and present - done!
Dragon Scarf #2 - started
Centuria for Ruth - started but will need to frog and restart and knit with no interruptions
Centuria for Trout - DITTO!
I love the pattern, i love that it's knit sideways and i am looking forward to knitting them both (Ruth's not so much, she chose a boucle yarn!!) but they involve short rows, counting and keeping track of rows and i can't do that unless i write it all out and tick it off as i do it! Once i'm "in the groove" it should be easier going, i mean, this Dragon is definitely easier than the first Dragon so why shouldn't that relate to the hats too? The hat is worked in sections and i am hoping that by the time i have worked one section that the second will come to me a LOT easier... if it doesn't i may well have a spiral bound copy of "Going Straight" for sale :o(
So, back to Chrimble knitting... i'd like to get some more washcloths made, just a couple, so that i have some emergency presents ready to hand out should i need them. I also have two lots of gorgeous Sublime that is earmarked for cowls, one for Mum and maybe one for me! Then there's a pair of mittens, a hat and a scarf that i would have liked to have squeezed in but in all honesty i don't think i'll get them done. If i can manage to get this scarf done today though i will definitely feel more optimistic about "extra" knitted pressies!
Alls i gotta do is stay AWAY from the computer!! heheheeee
I'm feeling fairly optimistic that i can do it before the deadline!
I've cast on for Dragon Scarf Number Two and am about a third of my way through it, i am hoping to spend all of today knitting on it so hopefully that will be done by tonight and can be crossed off the list!
Speaking of which, the list looks a little something like this now:
Ruth's socks - done!
Dragon Scarf #1 - done!
Christmas Stocking and present - done!
Dragon Scarf #2 - started
Centuria for Ruth - started but will need to frog and restart and knit with no interruptions
Centuria for Trout - DITTO!
I love the pattern, i love that it's knit sideways and i am looking forward to knitting them both (Ruth's not so much, she chose a boucle yarn!!) but they involve short rows, counting and keeping track of rows and i can't do that unless i write it all out and tick it off as i do it! Once i'm "in the groove" it should be easier going, i mean, this Dragon is definitely easier than the first Dragon so why shouldn't that relate to the hats too? The hat is worked in sections and i am hoping that by the time i have worked one section that the second will come to me a LOT easier... if it doesn't i may well have a spiral bound copy of "Going Straight" for sale :o(
So, back to Chrimble knitting... i'd like to get some more washcloths made, just a couple, so that i have some emergency presents ready to hand out should i need them. I also have two lots of gorgeous Sublime that is earmarked for cowls, one for Mum and maybe one for me! Then there's a pair of mittens, a hat and a scarf that i would have liked to have squeezed in but in all honesty i don't think i'll get them done. If i can manage to get this scarf done today though i will definitely feel more optimistic about "extra" knitted pressies!
Alls i gotta do is stay AWAY from the computer!! heheheeee
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