We have one!
It's massively overgrown and full of brambles, but the site manager will get it cleared for us. It has some blackcurrant bushs and a small apple tree in, as well as a frame that can be netted to keep the birds out.
Hopefully we should be digging in in a fortnight. I've ordered some speedy seeds, and some autumn/winter veg to go in.
The spinning is going really well, I've just ordered a Turkish spindle to try out, as you can never have enough spindles! Tommorrow I'm going to start on "Mother" by MHE. I've also jury-rigged a large niddy-noddy out of pipe, hopefully it should hold up ok.
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
allotment and yarn
we might have an allotment very soon - Fox is second on the list! Apparently they have sent out some letters about non-payment, they have till the end of the month or it gets taken away. It works out at about £70 a year for 5 rods (about 25ms x 5m) which is easily doable. We will probably need to get a lock box and some tools, but that shouldn't be too expensive.
the spinning is going really well. I've nearly finished Celery, and can now keep it even and pretty thin. I've started a pair of sock mittens as i have a sandwich bag full of odd sock yarn and, to be honest, no motivation to start a sock blanket.
2 new bookstoday - The new Charlie Stross arrived - Rule 34 - " "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions" full review later in the week, and The Occult Roots of Nazism which isn't as weird as it sounds, I realised i didn't have any books on the Thule Society and wotnot so its one to add the grow collection of eclectic Uni books.
the spinning is going really well. I've nearly finished Celery, and can now keep it even and pretty thin. I've started a pair of sock mittens as i have a sandwich bag full of odd sock yarn and, to be honest, no motivation to start a sock blanket.
2 new bookstoday - The new Charlie Stross arrived - Rule 34 - " "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions" full review later in the week, and The Occult Roots of Nazism which isn't as weird as it sounds, I realised i didn't have any books on the Thule Society and wotnot so its one to add the grow collection of eclectic Uni books.
Sunday, 3 July 2011
TdF day 3
still on 'Celery', about halfway though the roving. next is either the milk fibre - just to try or the lovely flamey coloured MHE fleece. I might save the milk for the mountain trail...
Hopefully my niddy-noddy should turn up soon, so I can try and measure how much I've done. I think I'm somewhere around the 60m mark. Im not a prolific spinner, but I can definatly see improvement.
P has done some amazing B&W photos, I'm going to tkae some to Tenbury I think and try and sell them for him. I might set up a Folky shop for him to sell them though as he's really into it and really photos are so much nicer than digital ones.
Hopefully my niddy-noddy should turn up soon, so I can try and measure how much I've done. I think I'm somewhere around the 60m mark. Im not a prolific spinner, but I can definatly see improvement.
P has done some amazing B&W photos, I'm going to tkae some to Tenbury I think and try and sell them for him. I might set up a Folky shop for him to sell them though as he's really into it and really photos are so much nicer than digital ones.
Saturday, 2 July 2011
tour de fleece
day one and two. started on "Celery" from My Heart Exposed it's a lumpy, but a mostly even dk and the colour is fab, a lovely vegatable-y yellow-green - i'll try to get a couple of photos tommorrow in the daylight.
A is trying to dump the dog on me for 10days, even though she's had nearly 2months to sort something out, and i wasn't even meant to be home that week!
A is trying to dump the dog on me for 10days, even though she's had nearly 2months to sort something out, and i wasn't even meant to be home that week!
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