The top of the Kensington Square box is now done and in reality the French knots weren’t as bad as I’d feared. Now I’m working on the exterior fence - this forms the rim of the lid.
Have also started another pair of socks in Opal Sock Yarn made by those extremely clever Germans who don’t put a word of English on their ball bands! It is knitting up well and providing something for my hands to do while I watch the TV news each evening at dinner time.
Yesterday I went to the library to get a book The King’s Loot only to find that it is very recently published and not yet on their shelves. However the very kind librarian said that the acquisitions committee would purchase it and as I’d recommended the book I would have the privilege of being first to read it. So now I wait. This is a far cheaper way to “purchase” books, when someone else pays for them (ha ha).
I couldn’t wait for the library with Jeffrey Archer’s latest though so resorted to a Kindle Edition and then sat up through the night to finish it. Years ago when he visited New Zealand I went to a breakfast where he was the guest speaker and had the good fortune to be seated at his table. What a charmer! And I do admit to having read all the books he’s written although most have been borrowed from the library so I’ve not contributed in any great way to his immense royalties!
After several days of beautiful fine weather where we were deceived into thinking the sun had arrived to stay, it is currently grey sky and showery but while that’s not so good for lifting spirits it is excellent for the garden and my plants are all singing their thanks. I have at least five buds on my peony and the lily of he valley that I though I had killed has sent forth four shoots. The Nigella seed has germinated in profusion so I will have some flowers.
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4 comments:
Lovely progress on your stitching Margaret, love the sock colors, I hope you get some sun and it satay.
Catherine
Well done getting done with all the French knots! Looking forward to seeing the box assembled.
Lovely progress in the fence building, French knots are not so bad once you get into the swing of them. The Opal yarn is knitting up nicely, I do like Opal, much nicer than West Yorkshire Spinners, i think anyway.
I'm impress that you once sat at the same table as Jeffery Archer😁 I can well believe that he is a charmer, lol I've just finished reading one of his William Warwick books, he does tell a good story.
Hope your weather continues to improve, we are getting lots of rain at the moment although we have had the occasional sunny day mostly its wet, windy and dull.
Good progress on your stitching.. and Jeffery Archer is a charmer as his wife can vouch for, as he has a wandering eye.. saw one of his books as a play in London, but never read one of his books, never appealed to me.
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