What's Been Happening
During the time I've been away, my son Ben, broke down in Germany and it took me two days of constant phone calls to him and to recovery people to bring both him and the bike home (separately). When he came home he decided to stay with us for the rest of the summer holidays. Why would he want to stay with his parents? Well, I think it may have had something to do with a young lady round the corner!
On top of that, my husband Paul, came home from a sailing weekend (about 6 weeks ago) with a sore knee and not feeling very well - within days he was in hospital with a massively inflamed leg, raging temperature, hooked up to an intravenous drip of antibiotics - not well at all. It didn't help that the Doctors had no idea what caused it and no idea how to put it right.
After 7 days in hospital the infection had continued to spread - down towards the ankle and up to - well you know where Eventually, they managed to find the right antibiotic to start working and the inflamation stopped spreading. Although he's on the mend, it' will be months before it will be back to normal (was he ever).
Last week was spent getting Ben back to college in Nottingham (last year of classical guitar building), sorting accommodation, crockery, food etc etc and then actually taking all the stuff there. Ben of course had to go on his motorbike.
New Toy
We bought a couple of kayaks 3 years ago and enjoyed the odd trip up to the Lake District paddling accross the lakes, thenI was persuaded to try moving water ie fast running river. Well, the upshot was I had a bit of a near death experience (well that's what I think it was) and have been reluctant ever since to get in it. So we decided to sell them and get a open canoe. We particularly fancied one of these so we could take the tent and have a multi-day trip. So we bought one last week and took it up to Coniston this Monday for it's maiden voyage.
It may not look like it but I really enjoyed our trip.
Roseland Bags
Whilst I've been having all this fun, I confess I did find time to sew and knit.
I'd been thinking about making some sock project bags. I started by looking at the what people seemed to like. Most bags available were the circular sort with either a drawer string or elasticated cord at the neck. I decided to make one, but I didn't really enjoy making it and thought I could come up with a a more functional design.
So I thought I would like one that could stand up on it's own, that had a nice handle to carry it around by, somewhere to keep the needles and also act as a yarn keeper to keep yarn untangled and i the bag while knitting.
So these are some of what I came up with.
I've had great feedback and I now have them in other fabrics and after this week even more.
You can take a look at them here (shameless plug).
I have started a new knitting project - I pulled back my Rohan Calmer cardigan I was knitting - had made a couple of mistakes way down and couldn't face re-knitting all over again and because I tend to knit in short spurts I wanted a bit of quick gratification (as you do sometimes) so I decided to make a blanket from knitted squares. So my friend Paula who has the Westcliffe Hotel and does knitting holidays (another shameless plug) let me borrow her ''Jan Eatons Knitting Blocks" and I'm hooked. Of course I had to buy the book off Amazon and failed again to stick to my 'economy drive'.
Well I'm off to make a sausage sandwich now because I have as much success with diets as I do with economy drives.
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