This weekend, for the first time in nearly a year, P was away. I had such great plans for what I was going to achieve whilst I had the house to myself - the sewing machine was going to be set up, and all the annoying little jobs about the place sorted out and crossed off my list. Did any of this happen? - hell no.
There was copious amounts of TV and video watching - including thoroughly enjoying Forrest Gump again on TV Saturday evening, and 'having the time of my life' watching Dirty Dancing on video (a recent 20p from the charity shop acquisition - money very well spent!) A lazy few hours reading the rest of the previous weekend's 'The Times', and several other newspapers still lying around from the past week. Making good inroads in a Peter Robinson novel which I have read before but can't remember what happens (dug out of a pile whilst sorting through books that are listed on Greenmetropolis.) Sleeping obscenely long hours on both Saturday and Sunday morning, and not feeling any guilt at all that I should be doing something more useful. And an outrageous amount of time spent just surfing blogs, ebay, etsy and any other websites that took my fancy.
I did manage several machine loads of washing as the weather was just perfect - sunny, warm and with a nice bit of a breeze. And I also took down, soaked, and scrubbed the hideously manky mouldy shower curtain. A few hours soaking in a hot bath of soapy water and it came up as good as new - which was most gratifying as I had seriously thought of bining the horrible article and buying a new one. I also spent A LOT of time knitting dishcloths for the order I've got.
The order is for ten 12 x 14 inch plain dishcloths - which is a lot of knitting. Although it's amazing how much you can achieve with your feet up, a cup of tea to hand, and watching a film, when it's just plain old stocking stitch you're doing.
Hi Elizabeth,
I'm very envious, I dream of having a whole weekend to myself (a week would be better), what luxury to be able to do just what you want! Mind you I'm sure you were plesed to see P on his return. We were only talking about Forrest Gump at work last week,one of my colleagues hasn't ever seen it and we were saying what a great film it is...I picked it up on vidoe last year, might have to dig it out.Have a good week, hope your fingers aren't too sore with all that knitting going on.
Gill x
Posted by: Gill | 01/28/2008 at 09:10 PM
Hi Elizabeth,
I'm very envious, I dream of having a whole weekend to myself (a week would be better), what luxury to be able to do just what you want! Mind you I'm sure you were plesed to see P on his return. We were only talking about Forrest Gump at work last week,one of my colleagues hasn't ever seen it and we were saying what a great film it is...I picked it up on vidoe last year, might have to dig it out.Have a good week, hope your fingers aren't too sore with all that knitting going on.
Gill x
Posted by: Gill | 01/28/2008 at 09:10 PM