It was certainly serious brass monkey weather in Essex this morning. There was a thick thick frost overnight and it took until mid-day for it to properly clear - and that was only in the bits that caught the sun, anything north-facing is still icy.
I was surprised by the strength that there is in the sun even now when we're nearly at the winter solstice (hurrah, roll on the sun heading back our way), and it was quite warm walking to the High Street - providing I was on the sunny side of the street.
These lovely slouchy socks knitted by my Mum are just the ticket for keeping my tootsies toasty and warm on cold mornings.
They're so much looser and more comfortable than wearing 'regular' socks about the house, and I love the cheerful colours of the self-striping sock yarn.
PS. I don't usually wear my trousers at half-mast, I had to hoik them up to show the socks off to their best advantage. And, may I say, it's really not that easy to take a photo of your socks when you're wearing them!!
Lovely socks! I keep wanting to knit some socks for myself but it just gets added to the growing list of things I would rather be doing than work! Just also read your last post about the mouse - did you know they can (somehow) squeeze through a space the size of a biro (as in the end, not the length....)so they can get through almost anything. Could you maybe get your neighbour to rub something over the cat, or get some of his fur (if your neighbour brushes him that is! He looks like he wouldn't take much fussing) and put it around the outside wall - maybe then the scent of him would put your rodent visitor off. Otherwise I would be happy to pimp Stella out for a day if you didn't live so far away!
Posted by: Claire | 12/14/2007 at 11:18 AM