Just keep knitting…..
The baby blanket continues. I can’t tell you how long this is taking, it is occupying my every waking moment. And i have made myself promise not to go near the bag of lovelyness from Woolfest until...
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That my blue laser was being polished at Kielder. Not South Shields. So this left one last piece of the puzzle – to get the boat to South Shields. We pondered this. It had a road trailer which the Mr...
View ArticleExtreme Sailing!
Over the last few weeks sailing has gone from one extreme to the other. From glorious light wind, sunny sailing at South Shields Nearly no wind, but lots of sunshine! To blowing crazy amounts of wind...
View ArticleThe Nelly Name Challenge!
My new boats are currently nameless. I know it the Supernova has Audi on the side, but that doesn’t count – it needs a proper name that shows I love it. But the names are becoming a little thin on the...
View ArticleSailing like a dog
That’s what I did last night. In fact its possibly an insult to dogs. So back at the Wednesday sailing at South Shields with my nameless Laser. Since my boat had arrived a few weeks ago I have sailed...
View ArticleFinished
For our tenth anniversary I thought I would do something really special. This is a bit of a big deal for me – I am hopeless with it – as is the Mr – primarily due to when it falls. We got married...
View Article“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William G.T....
It’s taken me a while to write this post because in some ways it has nothing to do with this blog – in others – it has everything to do with it. So many of us are treading a fine line and trying to...
View ArticleOnce I get started
Once I get started I sometimes can’t stop. In fact I get a bit carried away. So much so that I have gone on a bit of a sock bender. Like many people with an addictive personality this has taken the...
View ArticleWinning
Everyone likes winning. I frequently deny that it’s all about the winning, purely because I spend a lot of time not winning. Because in any competition there can only be one winner – so that means for...
View Article14 reasons not too like afterthought heels
This was my lovely wool. I was really excited about it. I knit it into tubes in shetland purely because I got distracted and knit too much to put the heel in. Its ok – there is a technique to turn them...
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