He sort of freestyles. Uses yarn as dental floss and bum floss if I would let him . But he can certainly create a confusion, what with being a cat and all and conscious, seemingly, of tropes.
Gxxx
He is coming to understand ‘MINE!’, though
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Another chilly grey day here.
Have an largely (but not entirely) Oaf-free
yardarm
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Ulster fries in chafing dishes
Eggses when Joe’s girlies produce
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Wee birdies that deliver supplies to hospitals are allowed to subtract the volume of deliveries from any spilt dear dunnock
You should be fine as you have delivered tankers to me before now…
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Virtue is its own reward, they say, but I’ll take the lowered booze level too.
And talking of lowering booze levels…
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It’s grey here too, although the outside temperature is supposed to be 11°
Carinthia.xx
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To the Knitters of the Cellar: a Warning.
If a pattern tells you to cast off with yarn held double, do not allow at least twice the (doubled) length you think you will need. Make that at least three times the length. Unpicking it from two-thirds of the way along is a slow, painstaking, fiddly PIG of a job.
Over.
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Do we take this to mean that you have nearly finished something?
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Nearly. A lace scarf for the Ma. Once I have re-cast-off this ruffle, I need to go back to the provisional cast on, pick up stitches (nerve-wracking, that bit) and do the other ruffle, ideally failing to make the same mistake when it comes to casting that off. But I wouldn’t bet on it
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Gus dear that crie de couer was heartfelt
Sympathy f rom my barstool
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What an empathetic piece of furniture the dear cratur is ;- )
Hope you are supping something splendid!
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But you are more than woman enough for it, I’m sure.
Speaking of knitting, what happened about the work for which you ran out of yarn? Did you manage to source a close enough match?
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Just beer
Smithwicks to be precise
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This is that. And the new dye lot is a very good match. Phew. I get to play with the Anti-Kitten again shortly as for the second ruffle I shall need to begin on the new skein. Yay!
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…and I have now wound the new skein into a ball. Which was great fun and achieved without catly assistance (waited until the bugger had gone out: I’m not as daft as I look).
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Spoilsport
Pore Oaf deprived of atoy
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Oof & Uurrrkk
Following the fairly fruitless Gusly shopping expedition of yesterday, I did an inventory of the Carinthian Cupboards.
Corned beef was needed, as well as frozen fruit, prawns & bog roll.
I purchased all of these items from Farmfoods, & then nipped across to the Co-op fer filtered milk. Whilst there I picked up 3 lots of fresh Sparrergrass fer 50p each.
Sparrergrass soup tomorrow, then…
Carinthia.xx
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oooh, lovely. I should arrive at around 13:00…
It wasn’t, honestly: I wasn’t after bogroll or pasta. Though some corned beef would have been nice.
Tomorrow I plan to go to my Everything shop (I am back on speakers with them, by the way - turned out the mad butchery guy who got upset when asked for goat was someone’s brother-in-law covering in an emergency and nobody liked him anyway ;-)) where I shall get some dried chickpeas and white beans of some description; they also stock every kind of pasta under the sun, and I bet they still have some. I want some macaroni - not so much for stockpiling reasons as ‘things I have in mind to cook anyway’ reasons.
And I shall pick up some halloumi there as well. Because squeaky cheese.
The real bugger is ibuprofen. None, anywhere. And I get through a fair bit of it.
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To hear some people talk, there’s no bog roll left for sale in England…
A quick informal survey suggests it’s been running low in the cheap shops, but is still in normal supply in the expensive shops… and the cash & carries.
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I have accidentally stockpiled looroll: I forgot I had already got two-for-the-price-of-one two x 36 rolls at the c&c, and bought another lot the following week.
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