May be gone a while

Silkie still sitting on the eggs..........................

Shed and greenhouse cleared out............................

Some autumn veg seeds to plant..............................

and I just got a wii....................


busy busy busy :)

Award! (aren't I lucky)

The lovely Joy has awarded me this:-

The rules of the award dictate:
1. Post this award on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate at least 4 other bloggers, and add their links as well.
4. Leave a comment at the new recipients' blogs, so they know they got an award.

But as you know i was never one to follow rules! - I read around 50 blogs and i love each and every one of them for all sorts of different reasons. So if I read your blog, then this is yours (cos surely I wouldn't bother if I didn't lovel it!), and how do you know if I read your blog? Well if you update it, and it appears in the list right, then I do....... but be quick, only 5 show at a time! :) And if I don't read yours, then leave me a comment and I'll do my best to rectify the situation.

Silkie is still sitting pretty........... one week down, two to go :)

All better now

The drama is over - I've forgiven myself for being a clutz, and life has moved on............. in fact new life will be moving in very soon. My little silkie has gone broody, ain't she a doll? 

These were taken yesterday when I hoofed her out of her nest to eat and drink.

I've bought some Sasso x Light Sussex, for no reason other than they were a good price and will be good as table birds. It's not really a good time of year for hatching as the weather gets colder, but we'll give it a go, she seems happy enough to have a try so who am I to stop her?!  - If anything hatches it should be 21 days from tomorrow.  Fingers crossed.

Not a post for the sensitive

Curse words........... I mean serious, serious, blue curse words.

I have completely felted Muir :(

Please don't comment on this post I can't take the sympathy I will probably cry, and if you are feeling honest, I can't take the realisation that I am completely and utterley stupid.  I am so totally mad with myself....... and have told myself off in no uncertain terms!

(in case you are wondering, I couldn't get the machine oil and associated smell out of the yarn with handwashing - it really did smell like a diesel engine. - so I popped it in a laundry bag, and washed it on my most delicate 30deg wool wash - delicate my arse!)

Seriously don't visit for a while.................. I will be swearing for some long while yet.

Not Knitting!

Thought it was time the girls got a look in.  They haven't had much glory lately, and to be honest, they won't be photographed much more this year, cos (a) it's permanently raining, and (b) as you can see from Molly below, they have started to moult and won't look very attractive.
Primrose:-

Dorothy:-

 

 Molly (awwww!):-
 

And Big Bea (who refused to come out from behind the Bay tree 'cos I was wielding a tub of red-mite powder):-

No pics of the silkie today cos she's in another run and really doesn't look her best with all the rain (think white with mud patches) plus it was piddling down and I'd had enough of getting wet.

I am still consistently getting two eggs a day from the 4 big hens, and occasionally 3, I would assume Molly has stopped laying for the winter (looking at the state of her) and Bea will soon follow suit.  Much as I love them I am not sure at the moment whether to pop these two in the freezer now :(, It's a long winter to be feeding them (prices have shot up) and not get any eggs now until next March. The two hybrids Dotty and Primrose will stop laying for only around 6 - 8 weeks I think later in the year, and I may get two more hybrids like them to see me through winter.  I can't decide though!

Oh MY GOSH!

I'm in a photo on the Yarn Harlot's blog! I AM FAMOUS! (well ok i'm not, cos the photo was about natalie as well it should have been after the competition she ran on her YarnYard site to try to raise awareness for the Yarn Harlot's charity of choice Medecins Sans Frontieres - go take a peek) but that's me, in the Tempest cardi on the right hand side of n....... I may need to lie down for a while!

Yarn Harlot rocks!

OK I was a fool! - I didn't take a camera!!, I had the headache from hell, and I didn't buy anything except the Yarn Harlot's new book.  BUT it was the most awesome day.

I met loads of people from the CTnY forum (and didn't meet nearly as many! - seriously I must have been walking round in a daze). I stroked yarn, and perused a few books, I stood in a queue for a book signing for a while, whilst people knitted (that was cool), I was a complete ditz when it came to my turn and couldn't think of anything to say (I was SO in awe!),I saw a little bits of some of the fashion shows and I watched the hundred different ways that people knit - I swear I didn't see two people holding their yarn the same way.

... and then there was the Yarn Harlot talk.  Well it was the most enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half. I laughed far more than I thought I would, and I actually learnt a lot too!  Apparently knitters are about the cleverest people on the planet - along with monks!! (OK it wasn't quite as simple as that, but I like that precis so I'm sticking with it!)  (and I knitted my sock too!)  Stephanie was so entertaining and engaging and deserves full credit for standing in front of that many people and not running out!! :)

As for the event itself, well I personally thought the venue was much better than last year - there was much more space and air (although it was very hot) and it never felt too crowded, which for me is quite important. However the increase in space did mean that it lost a wee bit of it's personal  feel, and the impromptu party atmosphere which has been at last year's IKnit was sadly missing a bit this year.  (I'm sure I remember music/singers) I think last year's venue benefited from having the bar area in the same hall as the market place and fashion show - it allowed people to sit with a drink and watch the world go by, and although there was plenty of seating this year, the cafe/bar was downstairs so was removed from the event. Having said that, you obviously can't please all the people all the time, and for me I think the increased space and "non crowding" won over the slight loss of atmosphere.

So, Craig/Gerard...... what you doin' next year then?! ;)

I don't know what to take to knit

It's IKnit tomorrow and the only knitting I have on the needles is Muir, and I don't think that's train friendly?  I'll just have to start another pair of socks!

(Sorry to all those who are sick of reading about people going to IKnit but not having any knitting to take is traumatic!)