I'm sure like most of the population of the UK at the moment, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to sleep whilst the weather is so hot and humid (thunderstorms and cooler weather predicted over night - yay!). My disturbed night's sleep has led to some very woolly thinking over the weekend. In fact I'm really having a job summoning up the energy to do anything of any use whatsoever. I know there are umpteen things that need sorting out both in the house and in the garden but I just can't be a*sed to do them. Even the car boot yesterday was more of a chore than a pleasure - and that is probably the first time I've ever felt like that!!
One thing I did get round to doing over the weekend was to unpick a scarf I knitted a couple of years ago from some very nice Colinnette wool I found in a charity shop. There was only 100g and the resultant scarf - although narrow - still wasn't really long enough. Having consulted Mum, who knows about these things, I set about unravelling the scarf - took flippin' ages - and then wound it into skeins, tied them tightly, washed them and hung them out to dry. Even in this heat it took a good 24 hours for the skeins to totally dry out.
It's a lovely variegated yarn and did knit up beautifully (just a pity there wasn't 150g of it), and this time I think I'm going to knit myself either a beanie or fingerless mitts. Although it seems impossible to imagine I'll ever be cold again at the moment, I'm sure the colder days will be upon us all too quickly.
Also with the winter weather in mind, the knitting of the patchwork blanket continues apace. I had come to a bit of a halt, having pretty much run out of suitable yarn in the stash, but I very luckily came across three balls of just the sort of yarn I need - apparently it is double double - in a charity shop on Saturday morning. That gave me enough knitting for both 'Flightplan' and 'War of the Worlds' over the weekend. I quite enjoyed both films but was sorry that the Jeff Wayne 'War of the Worlds' soundtrack didn't feature at all in the film - a sad ommission I felt.
I was also very sad to see the total destruction by fire of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare on the news this morning. I have many happy memories of days out at Weston, both as a child and also more recently - after I'd discovered their charity shops were fantastic. P and I always took a stroll to the end of the pier and the views from there were beautiful. P, being from Switzerland where there is no coastline, particularly likes a sea view, although at Weston whether you could actually see any sea was always a bit of a gamble!
I so agree with your first paragraph about the heat and low energy - I'm finding it really hard to get motivated at the moment.
Loved the picture of your yarn ready to be re-knitted.
Yes, the destruction of Weston pier was terrible. I remember going there as a child.
(Have been reading your blog for ages - its nice to get news of your area as my sister-in-law lives near Southend)
Posted by: Wendy | 07/29/2008 at 08:51 PM