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re-surfacing in the blogoverse

Woah, what the heck happened? I disappeared from the virtual dimension for weeks due to the incredible workload that is the examination period (which this year combined with internal evaluation and personal appraisals), and each week-end was super sociable (most of my friends and relatives are gemini, so June birthdays pile up on top of eachother). As you can gather, not much knitting is being done either. However, I did read the knitting thriller gifted by Gina (as did The Other Knitter in the House), and not only would I recommend it as a light bit of reading, I am actually going to offer it to one of you blog readers (if I have any left that is).

You will enjoy this book if you love reading descriptions of fibre-lust, can suspend disbelief in the face of such an amazingly 'wonderful' and 'welcoming' group of knitters (the caring one, the mischevious one, the wisecracking one, the male one...), like a bit of love interest thrown in, and tolerate or enjoy those American crime series they show on afternoon TV.  I will be taking the second one on holiday with me.

So, leave a comment, and a name shall be drawn out of the hat next Tuesday. Which hat? Well, how about this one I started knitting using some of my wildly erratic hand-spun Fibre from Hello Yarn):

Sadly not off to the Woolfest this year, but those of you that do go... enjoy!

mini breaks and mail goodness!

The 'Other Knitter in the House' had a birthday last week, so we took a few days off and went to Suffolk. We are currently building our holiday breaks around the family history, and as one of her ancestors was from Dennington, off we went for the day! Her ancestors could not afford  memorials as grand as this one in St Mary's Church, (or even a little headstone come to that):

You can see where the fairy tale princess aesthetic comes from, right down to the little dragon resting at her feet:

We then spent the night on the coast, before meandering our way back to London and stopping off - among other places - at Sutton Hoo, the burial ground for an Anglo-Saxon king (erm, nope, neither of us can claim this lineage either!). The burial mounds are grazed upon by rare Norfolk Horn sheep:

One wanted to get up close and personal:

And because it was a glorious  sunny week-end, we did absolutely nothing (I am afraid I did not switch the PC on at all!) and the cat kept us company:

Whilst I was away I received the green 'Project Spectrum' package from Justine. Look at all the goodies, including a pattern book by Mission Falls for 'Smittens'! (check out her preparations for her forthcoming wedding)

And, this morning, a total surprise package from Gina! A knitting murder book to curl up with this evening (plus a gorgeous little skein of art yarns). Thanks a million!