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2009 does sound such a long way away from where I feel in my head, that place where 1994 still feels quite close by and celebrating the millennium was just a few New Year’s ago, but here we are, almost a decade into the new century. I’m quite looking forward to next year though, when we can escape this hinterland of not knowing what to call the year, and therefore opting for the longest possible option, and hopefully return to the old system and call the year twenty ten.
Well, the cooking happened, almost all was eaten (we’re still trudging through the Christmas cake, which is rather nice with vanilla soya ice-cream). Christmas was lovely, and hectic, full of family and food and just a little bit of booze. We’ve had a fabulously cold, frosty snap that made everything quite festive, but those memories are being washed and blown away by the soggy January weather.
I’m now the proud new owner of a rather nifty pair of binoculars. In recent years I’ve tried to make more of an effort to identify birds. It seems so ignorant to see them flying around and just label them all birds. Now we’re in quite a good spot for watching birds the binoculars are really handy. Since we’re been here I’ve seen buzzards, woodpeckers, redwings, thrush, blackbirds, wagtails, damn magpies, a small bird of prey that I’m struggling to identify (it’s never around long enough), the barn owl, robins, wrens and lots more little birds still to be identified.
My knitting projects aren’t progressing too well, apart from some fingerless mittens which are easy to churn out. The grey tank top just doesn’t look right so that will probably be unwound and the tiger tank top isn’t shaping up well and would require more wool to finish (not good when the object of the exercise was to use up wool in my stash) so that will probably be undone too. Darn it.
I went to a Knit and Natter group last night at Tamsyn G’s in Gillingham and had a lovely gentle evening. It was really good getting out on my own and nice to have a prompt to get knitting again, my new project is a baby tank top knitted in Opal tiger wool.
