Tagged....

Here's the meme that Polly tagged me on, that has been making the rounds.

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Lixie also tagged me with this one, but hers only asks for seven so I'm going with this one....

So without further ado, 7 random facts about me, I hope you learn something new and don't get too bored...

1. I can't ride a bike, roller skate, ice skate, ski or do anything that requires a degree of balance.

2. Two is a bit of an odd number for me as I am a second child which both my parents were and I have only ever been a second wife (twice).

3. You will never see me dancing! I was always thought of as being a bit of a party pooper because I would never get up and dance at parties or if my friends and I went to a night club. I much prefer to watch everyone else.

4. I love untangling knots - the bigger the better. If I drop a skein of yarn and it ends up in a heap, I'll spend hours sorting it out rather than cut the end and save some time.

5. As much as I love chocolate, I daren't eat it any more as I come out in a rash and I get an almost ecezma type reaction on my hands.

6. The first job I had when I left school was as a Florist and since then I have always had at least one bunch of fresh flowers somewhere in the house.

7. I can only get to sleep if I lay on my right side.

.....OK, you can wake up now!

Weekend away...

We had a wonderful weekend away. It's hard to think that it was only 7 days ago!

We were lucky enough to be staying during the first weekend of Open Studio's in Norfolk and I happened to notice a flyer for it in our hotel's reception area. (What really caught my attention was a picture of an Intarsia sweater and the words knitting, hand dyed yarn etc in the description).

Open Studio's is normally run by the local Arts' Council and basically, local artists open up their studio's or workshops to the public to showcase and sometimes sell their work. It's a bit like the Open Gardens scheme.

Anyway, we got in the car and headed off to Castle Acre and as we were driving though, spotted this....


I could feel the hubbler's eyes roll up as I said 'Oooh, let's find somewhere to park and go and have a look!'

Having got past the skeins of yarn on the gate (and another festooned with more yarn) we followed the arrows though a lovely cottage garden and found this...


and this......

this.....

and this!!!


Sadly, none of the yarn was for sale ( and I tried very hard to get them to let me re-home a lovely skein of wool and Tussah Silk), so we headed back to the car to go and find a couple more Studio's.

Next stop was Linda's - who also happens to work where we were staying. It turns out that Linda lent several of her paintings for use in the TV drama Kingdom - Stephen Fry, Sunday evenings - and we are now the proud owners of one of her pictures of Edie

I do still knit....

...honest!

I've made a bit of progress on Emerald Isle

and was in need of some fairly mindless knitting as a contrast to my busy days I've been having lately so have started on a Never Ending Shawl using Oceania in Old Rose.


It must be at least 5 feet from the tip to the needles already and I've used about half of the skein so far. I know that the sample used on the pattern didn't use a full skein, so I want to see just how much bigger mine will be.


We're of to Swaffham for the weekend in a couple of hours as it is our wedding anniversary tomorrow. Weight Watchers will have to go on hold for a couple of days as I don't intend having to think about how many points these will be!

10%....

Today I reached my 10% weight loss goal at Weight Watchers! That is 10% of my starting weight and my total loss to date is 27lbs - I'll let you work the maths out....

To say I am chuffed is an understatement!

Only another 70lbs to go...

You're Going To Have To Speak Up....

...I may have trouble hearing you!

Two amazing concerts in the last 5 days. Last Thursday we went to see Deep Purple and last night it was Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd) performing Dark Side of the Moon at the NEC in Birmingham.


It took me back (more years than I care to remember) to my younger days as a student when I saw these two bands before they split. I didn't think I'd ever get to see Floyd again though (or any part of them). Today I'm a happy old rocker!

As you can guess, not a lot of knitting has been done this week - Oh and I forgot my first Blogiversary last Tuesday!