Matters mostly domestic
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pensnestWell. I don't seem to have much on my calendar, but last week was quite busy and this week will be busier yet.
We had to take Sable to the vet, nothing wrong but she had to be weighed before getting her flea medicine. It was surprisingly easy to put her in the cage, and she was obviously very cross about it, although silently. When we got back, she was so indignant about being put in a cage—with nasty walls! on every side!—that for several minutes she failed to notice that the lid had been opened.
FIL has been having, how shall I put it, gastric troubles for a while, and the doctor has sprung into action with slightly alarming alacrity. He had specimens analysed, got an appointment last week, then went to get bloods done, and has to see the hospital consultant this coming Wednesday. It's a bit sinister, but as he isn't in any pain, perhaps it isn't?
Yesterday was a mini music fest held by a member of the chorus, in her back garden. A bunch of us, plus other people, showed up and sang or read poems or played instruments. I read 'A Modern Day Matilda', which went over quite well. There was an elderly chap who gave an excellent impersonation of a massed band of battle bagpipers (on the descant recorder), and another who actually made his own bagpipes and played them for us. Not the full Scottish atrocities but smaller versions (French, I think). The weather was kind and the food and company was good.
I have made good progress with my peacock shawl, having just completed Row 100 this evening (and just started on colour number three). There are about 235 stitches on the needle now, and there are 216 rows in total… it is a bit of a pain having to write out the instructions by hand, but it would be completely impossible to use the gigantic charts unless I had a knitting minion to read out each symbol and cross it off as I completed it. At present I can get five or six rows onto an A4 page, so goodness alone knows what it will be like when I get near the end. As it is a *very* un-portable knit, I shall have to start something easy to take to Biddy's next week.
Plus, we have now—well, I say 'we', what I mean is, Beast has now completed our table, but for another coat of Danish Oil. We had the children round this morning to help us turn it onto its carefully felted feet, and it looks very elegant. It is a 3m long oval and weighs around 130kg, hence the need for assistance. Should seat twelve, had we twelve seats available.
We had to take Sable to the vet, nothing wrong but she had to be weighed before getting her flea medicine. It was surprisingly easy to put her in the cage, and she was obviously very cross about it, although silently. When we got back, she was so indignant about being put in a cage—with nasty walls! on every side!—that for several minutes she failed to notice that the lid had been opened.
FIL has been having, how shall I put it, gastric troubles for a while, and the doctor has sprung into action with slightly alarming alacrity. He had specimens analysed, got an appointment last week, then went to get bloods done, and has to see the hospital consultant this coming Wednesday. It's a bit sinister, but as he isn't in any pain, perhaps it isn't?
Yesterday was a mini music fest held by a member of the chorus, in her back garden. A bunch of us, plus other people, showed up and sang or read poems or played instruments. I read 'A Modern Day Matilda', which went over quite well. There was an elderly chap who gave an excellent impersonation of a massed band of battle bagpipers (on the descant recorder), and another who actually made his own bagpipes and played them for us. Not the full Scottish atrocities but smaller versions (French, I think). The weather was kind and the food and company was good.
I have made good progress with my peacock shawl, having just completed Row 100 this evening (and just started on colour number three). There are about 235 stitches on the needle now, and there are 216 rows in total… it is a bit of a pain having to write out the instructions by hand, but it would be completely impossible to use the gigantic charts unless I had a knitting minion to read out each symbol and cross it off as I completed it. At present I can get five or six rows onto an A4 page, so goodness alone knows what it will be like when I get near the end. As it is a *very* un-portable knit, I shall have to start something easy to take to Biddy's next week.
Plus, we have now—well, I say 'we', what I mean is, Beast has now completed our table, but for another coat of Danish Oil. We had the children round this morning to help us turn it onto its carefully felted feet, and it looks very elegant. It is a 3m long oval and weighs around 130kg, hence the need for assistance. Should seat twelve, had we twelve seats available.