Grandma Susan Loc: NE UK

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I’ve just come in from knit and natter, it was quiet today. The noisy lots gone on a trip to coul y newham. I didn’t want to go because it’s just a small indoor shopping centre with not much to amuse me. The girls who don’t get out in a car 🚙 go, they enjoy it very much.

I’m still tired today and fell asleep last night 6ish until 10ish today. Don’t know weather I’m sleeping more with these tablets, hahaha. I can’t sleep much more than I do. We’ve got no rain yet but it’s due at 3ish. I haven’t seen Karen today, and will be going to Wendy’s tomorrow. Missing Josephine, it was a week today she came. Seems ages ago.

Stay safe all of you and love to yawl,,,,hugs special for poorly 👯‍♀️ sisters.

Barndweller

Good morning all from a sunny but cold (4C) Norfolk. Not a lot planned today although it looks as though I'm due for a dip in the frog pond. Found a row out of place and definitely can't cover it up so splash, splash though might try and tink as the rows aren't very long. Looks like an exciting afternoon. Have a good day. xx

Xiang53 Loc: Spencer Gulf, South Australia

Hi everyone, I have been a bit hit & miss on here lately. My sleeping time seems to have taken a dramatic turn, and I am sleeping 2 or 3 times a day, for a few hours at a time; but still being very tired each time I wake. I think the amount of sleep I have had for the previous few days, would take me into next year, if I was only sleeping during the nights! Perhaps I am finally catching up o all of the sleep I missed out on, while I was working; so maybe I can get back to the regular nightly sleeps ...... that would be good!

Now on to find out what everyone has been up to, while I have been absent! Enjoy your day! xoxoxo

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

Good morning from Port Hope Ontario Canada. It is 6:30 am EDT and 10'c (50'F) going up to 15'C (59'F)
Yesterday at work was so slow. The day started with some beeps from the day before and not much was added during the day. I knit while I was sitting waiting and finished the brioche hat. I only used a fraction of the 2 balls so I decided to start a cowl in the same pattern. But mum happened. She distracted me so much that I had to restart my knitting 3 times. Mum was bored so she decided to clean out in the garage and found my 1 and only storage tub out there. She was bringing things from the tub inside and claiming them because I hadn't touched the tub in 2 years, so I was scrambling to get my things back and pack them in my storage downstairs. Every time that I put my knitting down there was a mess when I tried to pick it up again and I had to restart. But I finally got it going last night.
Canada is closing its borders ... to dogs. 3 dogs imported for adoption have tested positive for rabies despite documentation saying they had their vaccination. So the border has been closed to adoption dogs from 100 countries while this is investigated.
The government has re-examined the cut to taxes on gasoline/petrol. (They've figured out how much they are "missing" by giving the cut). So the tax cut will be reversed just before the long weekend. The energy critic says that gasoline/petrol will be up around $2 per litre once all the tax cuts are reversed. Another reason to not want to go into Whitby for work.
I found out that the pharmacy in the industrial area on the other side of town has the bivalent covid shots so mum and DD are going to check it out today.
My swift and winder arrived in a big box. The swift is huge. The winder in pieces and needs to be assembled. I need to take pictures of them.

This is how i wear my hats

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

Sounds like you are still on the night shift!

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

I was there several times yesterday. I'm sure you will get it fixed the way that you want.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

Hopefully you'll adjust to the new medication.
I'm not much of a shopper either, unless it is yarn shopping

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

You got an actual time for delivery? We get between 8 and 12, and they arrive at 1!

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

I hope you beat all those dust bunnies.
Happy knitting.

Xiang53 Loc: Spencer Gulf, South Australia

Good evening, I hope you get some lovely sunshine during your day. We have been getting quite a bit of rain, over the last week, or so; but no flooding in my region, the ground is too dry, so the water is soaked up quite rapidly, so I might be able to plant a few things, to make my yard look a bit more interesting, and much more lizard friendly. I haven't seen the resident sleepy lizards for a couple of years now; but if they come out in the open this year, we will have to make sure Bundy doesn't hurt them. I am hoping that they have just been keeping themselves to their homeland, behind the shed! I should even have some extra strawberries; DH doesn't seem to like garden fresh strawberries, so as the lizards love strawberries, they will be able to have some!

I was looking for my carding brushes yesterday, so that I could card the raw wool that I have (almost 2 full fleeces) so that they will be much easier to spin. While I was looking for the brushes, I found another fleece that I had totally forgotten about; so now I need to check it to make sure it hasn't been infested with insects; which happened to a large amount of wool that my mum wasn't able to use; because of her deterioration in health, before she had to go into a Nursing Care Home, over 20 years ago now!

I hope you enjoy making your waistcoats! xoxoxo

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

That sounds good to me. I looked at the stewing beef and roast beef in the store last weekend and kept walking. I got chicken instead. DD just finished off the last of the roast chicken by making stir fry with fried noodles. Not bad, but not filling either.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

It's dark and drizzly outside and a cold wind is blowing. There are no birds or squirrels in the back yard so I'm going to wait until it is lighter, or some of the critters arrive.

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

The lady in town with the carding machine has too much fluff and is having a sale. DD wants to get some. She has drop spindled a sample from each of the roving braids that she got from this lady the last time that we were there. They are all colourful and soft. Some are merino and some are a blend with silk. DD is quite happy.
I hope your fleece is in good shape.

Xiang53 Loc: Spencer Gulf, South Australia

So sorry that things got a bit feisty, then frosty, at your home; I hope all has settled down to regular emotions now and continue that way for a while!

My country had a PH on Thursday Sept 22, to remember the Queen, so there were many people who have had to have appointments rescheduled to a later day; I am now waiting to be notified of my rescheduled appointment for my final post cataract surgery; then I will need to make an appointment with an optometrist, to make sure I don't need to get new spectacles (which I don't think I will need) 🤞🏼🤞🏼🙄😏 xoxoxo

Nitz8catz Loc: Canada

I just realized that today is the first time in weeks that I haven't received a "your internal battery is low" on this laptop. I think I'll still take it to the pc repair guy on the weekend.