The way I'd like to remember weekends

Hello Dear Readers,

This weekend was pretty great. I did all the laundry between Friday and Saturday, including all the sheets and even Patrick's extra duvet cover, which was looking a little bit like a place mat since Patrick often eats on his bed in front of the TV.  Naughty! Not gonna happen when we get a proper table in the new place, whenever that is, still no news on moving grrr! At least I love using the clothesline in the garden to wash sheets etc.

But anyway, laundry done, Saturday was a bit overcast so I didn't feel guilty staying in and finishing up my latest sweater (voila!)  Ooops, boob shot, the next one was better, forgot to set the timer on the top one.

It's the minimalist cardigan from Interweave 2007 magazine, sent to me by Jennifer Imamura, thanks Jennifer!  That's the 3rd thing I've knit from it.....
The sweater is also special because the wool came from the mother of a co-worker who is moving her out of her home into care.  She had a huge wool stash and my friend kindly brought it in to share around the Herbarium.  I got this lovely brown and lots of nice grey wool.  I'd like to do another cardigan, but I'm afraid I'm getting too many handknit sweaters, anyone want a handknit sweater?  Or this cardigan?  Anyone? Bueller?

Also took advantage of the grey Saturday to finish watching Lincoln with Patrick and Chris.  I had kind of already spoiled it for Chris by telling him Lincoln gets shot, oops!

Baby foxes have gotten braver and come right up to our back door now, looking for a handout.  He seemed to be inspecting my mint collection - rosemary, lavender, mint and thyme - all repotted and ready for their move.  You know, whenever that is.

I optimistically brought home some boxes from work to start packing, but my heart isn't in it yet.

To cheer ourselves up, Chris and I went out for a coffee, then treated ourselves to a movie - the new Star Trek!  It was pretty good, lots of insider stuff for the hard core nerds like us (Nurse Chapel! Ha!)  When we got back, Chris found the LockerGnome Chris Pirillo blog where he finally acknowledges my scarf, hooray!

He likes it! He really likes it!  I'm just happy to make something that people enjoy, I think my family is getting a bit fed up with my knitting......

I made a great dinner of lentil walnut burgers out of the Oh She Glows website, along with some handmade spelt rolls, packed two for lunch tomorrow, got my lunch ready, wrote my blog.  Great weekend with all the ends tidied up, rested and ready for the next week, what could be better.

Oh, a rainbow of course! The natural result of our rainy days here, and the looooooong days, it was light at 10:30 on the solstice!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend too.  Cheers!

Still here, no moving date yet...

Hello Dear Readers,

I'm still here, I just haven't felt much like blogging lately.  Nothing bad or anything, but sometimes you just need to take a break from things to get a fresh perspective on things to get energized about it again.  I also have been recovering from my surgery, and am just now feeling comfortable enough sitting down to work at the computer at home.

We don't have a moving date for the new apartment yet, still waiting!!! It's very frustrating because I'm not really motivated to do stuff (like clean, or blog, or anything) since I keep thinking ahh, we'll be moving soon anyway.  The holdup is with the solicitors (lawyers) who are moving the paperwork around for the place, apparently delivering it by carrier pidgeon.  One of the offices claims to not have email, what? That is not possible.  We still expect it to be soon, real soon, so stay tuned. Though I will miss the super cute baby foxes in our backyard, awwww!

In other news this weekend Chris and I got to meet a celebrity, YouTuber Chris Pirillo.  Chris watches his vlog everyday (and I watch it with him occasionally) so when we found out he was coming to London we were very excited to meet him.  About a week before I said to Chris, too bad we couldn't think of something to do for him when we meet him, like knit him something.  He really loves bacon, and Chris suggested something bacon related.  I came home Tuesday night to find him on Ravelry looking at a double knit 5 foot long bacon scarf from the now sadly defunct The Anticraft WebZine.  He said, can you make this for Saturday?  Uh, yeah, only because I'm Super Yogi Knitter!!  4 days of frantic knitting later, I had it, Phew!

He seemed to genuinely appreciate the scarf, though he didn't wear it in the humid basement we were in since it was so stuffy.  I said if he just wore it in one of his videos it would make me very happy, hopefully he will!  Hey, he'll probably need it in London anyway, summers here are very cold and wet. 

He was very kind to pose with Chris and I for photos.  In fact he was kind enough to pose with EVERYONE for photos, fame has not spoiled him.  His demographic seemed to be largely young boys (15-18) and older men (30-40).  I felt a bit like Penny at the Comic Book Shop, especially when it transpired that of the other 6 or 7 women there most of them were one of the kids mom's, it was so sweet when they were asking Chris to pose for just one more photo with their kid.

As a thank you Chris (my Chris, not the celebrity Chris) took me to a vegan restaurant for dinner called Saf in Whole Foods in South Kensington.  Well, I told him he was taking me, but still, it was nice.  Good times.  I had the raw tostata but envied his Buddha Bowl, everything on their menu looks amazing!

Anyway, off to finish cleaning the house, though I know it's pointless since the people who just bought the place off our landlord will probably gut it.  Sigh.  On to bigger and better things, I am comparing garbage can designs and trying to source a bowed-out curtain rod....

Cheerio!