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Two Hoodies Knitted, Silver Raindrops and A Meeting

1 Finishing the little hoodie for T spurred me on to finish the one for her older brother. It’s been a wet and grey day so I curled up with my sewing up of the blue hoodie and am really rather pleased with the finished article! I’ll post them off tomorrow and hope to be sent photos of the Grandbabies in their new hoodies.

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2. It rained relentlessly today but that means there were beautiful raindrops on the flowers. The pink Japanese Anenomes look so delicate and almost translucent with little jewels in them.

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3. I am delighted that we have arranged to meet M, our eldest daughter, for lunch on Friday when we are in Exeter.

 

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Sleep, Knitting and An Indian Elephant

1   I slept all night! Beautiful!

2   Tonight I have finished the first of two Hoodies I am knitting for the Grandbabies. This is the smaller of the two and I am delighted with the finished article.

Tabitha’s hoodie

3   I love this small picture we have of a decorated Indian elephant. When we go to India at the end of the month we will be doing a safari on the back of an elephant.  For one who admires elephants as I do (such devoted and tender creatures) it will be almost a dream come true to be so close to one.

Indian Elephant

PS For those who liked the idea of ‘Suffragette Socks’ in a recent post, this is what they look like! The shades of purple, white and green are just perfect and I shall love wearing them!

Suffragette socks!

 

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Sorting, Satisfaction and Granny’s Green Glass

1   Inspired by Veronica, I sorted all my knitting needles in Granny’s knitting needle keeper but, after after about 80 years of use, it is coming to the end of its useful life.

Granny’s knitting needle holder with her and my needles

2   Again, inspired by Veronica’s lovely blog, I decided to make a new needle holder and spent a very happy afternoon printing off photos of things I have knitted, sticking them to a crisps tube and now have the satisfaction of this beautiful new container.

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3   My maternal Granny collected green glass as well as knitting needles! One of our dahlias has been blown over by the wind so I popped it into this beautiful piece of glass.

Dahlia

 
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Posted by on August 21, 2012 in craft, family, knitting, Uncategorized

 

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Texting, Birdwatching, Knitting Toolkit and A Bonus

1   The American branch of the family, my younger brother and my sister-in-law, are staying in St Mawes and we’ve had fun today texting making arrangements to meet up tomorrow, the skies being leaden again today! I’d love to say it’s been beautiful being so quiet but the truth is it’s too quiet and I’m missing everybody so much! The house has been so full of laughter and chatter for a whole week!

2    Being so quiet and, truth to tell, not busy enough, we have had time to notice the birds and my favourites, the Long Tailed Tits, have turned up today. I love it that they live in several generational family groups and at one point we saw ten. At the same time, the Goldfinches, a Blue Tit and a Great Tit were at the feeder. Beautiful!

3   This afternoon I read on  http://agujasblog.com/ about the tools we knitters carry about with us for knitting, was inspired to carry on with my current project (hoodies for both the Grandchildren) and to take a photo of my tool kit which was my Granny’s. It gives me enormous pleasure to know that she and my Mum both used these things before me. Thank you, Veronica.

4   Bonus Beautiful thing!    The sun came out this evening and we went down to Chapelporth to blow away the cobwebs. It was so beautiful and did my spirit much good –  lots of flowers, crashing waves in a turquoise sea and the magnificent Wheal Coates engine house on the cliff.

Click on any photo to see the detail.

 

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Young Magpie, Piano Practice and Sally-boots

1    We’ve been watching a family of magpies over the last few days. I know they are not very well-behaved but the iridescence of their feathers is very beautiful!  This youngster is trying to find his place in the garden but the pigeon is having none of it!

2     I finally managed to get a tricky piano piece right! It might be Grade 1 but it’s a challenge for me!

3     I’ve finished the Sally-boots for Ionie, the newest baby in the family.

 
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Posted by on June 27, 2012 in birds, craft, environment, knitting, nature

 

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Vegetation, Exploration and Experimentation

1    We’re trying companion planting this year, Limnanthus, the Poached Egg Plant, with the Broad Beans and I love how it’s looking. The beautiful theory is that the Limnanthus will attract the aphids so they won’t attack the beans. I’m looking forward to seeing the flowers. My Mum loved the yellow and white of these little treasures.

Companion planting

2  Tabitha, wearing a cardigan I knitted, was a delight opening cupboard doors and exploring but pretending that she wasn’t really interested.

I’m not really trying to open the cupboard!

Trying on a hat made by Corinne Carr

3    Our oldest daughter, Mikki, visited from Exeter today and spent the afternoon building an airport with Jake and then showed him some magic. Jake’s face was a picture as he did the ‘raisins in lemonade’ experiment. He loved the way the raisins sank to the bottom then came to the top covered in bubbles only to go down yet again.

Jake fascinated by lemonade and raisins

P.S.  I’ve posted the recipe for the delicious Tunisian Almond and Orange Cake on my Recipe page. Hover over the Recipe header to see the menu of recipes.

 

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Words, Bathroom Art and Knitting

Today has been on of those days when finding the beautiful has been harder than usual. I’ve been laid up with Yellow Fever vaccination reaction, feeling completely worn out and achey, as we were warned could well happen a week after the event. So…..

1    “The words! I collected them in all shapes and  sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.” Hortense Calisher.  I, too, am an avid collector of words.

2  Another piece of bathroom art that I love. We brought this beautiful sculpture home from Swaziland.

Sculpture from Swaziland

3  I finished knitting Tabitha’s new shrug – now to sew it all up.

 

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Lukla to Phakding, Grey’s Anatomy and Emails

1. Tracked all of Lucy’s trek on Google maps. Today the real trek has started as they go from Lukla to Phakding.

Following Lucy's trek

2.  Another bitterly cold day here so stayed in and started knitting a shrug for Tabitha. Caught up on several episodes of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ while knitting – a real treat.

3. Exchanged several emails with my lovely brother-in-law about his visit in September. We think it’s cold here. It’s -17 in Poland and colder still in Nepal!

 
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Posted by on February 13, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

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Choir-baby, Spring Flowers and Flights

1  I went to see Jo and her beautiful new baby daughter, Elowyn, and took the little jacket I’ve knitted for her.

2  Found the first primrose and the first periwinkle in the front garden this morning.

3  Started looking up flights to Senegal for Daniel and Ami’s wedding. This is getting exciting!

 
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Posted by on January 6, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

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Grandchildren, Hailstones and Kea Plums

1  Just had three days with family in London, so many delights, too many to mention but here are the little monkeys! They both loved ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ and so did we! They are also modelling Granny’s knitting!

2  Tremendous hailstorm today with the blackest of clouds followed by sunshine and a glorious double rainbow over Penryn as I was driving home from Falmouth after a lovely meeting with fellow Humanists.

3  Clearing out the freezer ready for Christmas and decided to make more Kea Plumbrillo. The lovely little plums have been simmered and are now dripping through a jelly bag to be finished off tomorrow.

 
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Posted by on December 13, 2011 in Uncategorized

 

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