January Finished Objects

I do have two finished objects however they are both sunning themselves in the Mediterranean for a couple of weeks so as soon as they return home I will post a picture of them in their full glory....

PC Problems/Birthdays

A few weeks back now I experienced a living nightmare. No my stash was not eaten by my rats (thank you Noonie!!) but rather I lost my entire e-mail collection. As I use AOL I move all my e-mails over to a personal filing cabinet on the hard drive which is the only option I have as AOL and Outlook are not compatible. Had it not have been for the fact that only a couple of days earlier I had gone through all my e-mails and got rid of those I didn't want to keep so I was left with everything I wanted. I have now however converted over to googlemail and hopefully will not have a repetition!

Another side-effect of this is that I lost my address book which is also AOL stored so if you have let me have your address and birthday details before could you let me have them again.

On a knitting front erm yes well erm nothing. I did start on the peacock feathers shawl prior to Christmas but as I am apt to do I went wrong so had to restart. As the wedding is due to take place this Saturday I gave up on getting it done in time. I will be re-doing it though in the peacock Cherry Tree Hill yarn as I was first intended.

I do have a January completed object but unfortunately it is currently sunning itself in Spain!

Secret Pal Updates

A later than promised post but here goes. I arrived home to find these waiting for me from Amazon:



Wrapped in my colour as well :)



Inside I found a wonderful cake decorating book. I am beginning to wonder if my SP is trying to drop a hint for SkipNorth......

The other book is the entire Born Free trilogy. My SP had asked me whether there was anything I wanted and I had asked for the first book so I was quite overwhelmed when I found all three in one volume. It has also come at the right time as I'll be taking it with me to Brighton.

I do have my suspicions who my SP is but its reveal time shortly so I'm going to wait and see if I am right. Thanks again SP :-D

Xmas Pressies & WIPs

A bit late in posting I know but everytime I have come to do something on blogger I get side-tracked.

First of all I received this knitting bag from a Big Bully who it in turns bought it from this lovely gentleman. I took it to knitting group tonight and they all found it hilarious!

Then I received these two books. The top is M&S's "Comfort Food". Will I ever manage to get on a diet?

I have to say that although I am Dr Who fan I have still yet to open the covers of this one :(

More tomorrow though as the bath is a-calling......

Resolutions & Email Hell

EMAIL HELL
Those of you who e-mail me on a regular basis know my ISP. Well it threw a wobbly the other day and I have lost all of my historical e-mails. It has also come to my attention since swapping over as to exactly how many e-mails were not getting through and were being bounced back as undeliverable to the sender! If you have been trying to e-mail me but not getting a response can you leave a comment and I'll e-mail you from the new e-mail account.

RESOLUTIONS
I've decided that this year I will have at least one Finished Object a month. I also need to sit down and decide what I'll be entering into the Bingley show in August. I know that this may sound somewhat future planning but last year there was one fellow entrant who had a multitude of entries in each class so needles need to start flying and clicking - any ideas?

Fame At Last

This appeared in the latest issue of Knit Today. I knew nothing about it's appearance until someone mentioned it to me. The lady sat down on my right is Alta Tucker who was the speed knitting champion from South Africa:

Hmmmmmm

What mischief can I get into?

Anniversary

I did some digging around yesterday and it turns out that I have been knitting for longer than I had first thought. Christmas Day saw my silver jubilee! If I knew then what I know now I would have started stashing a lot earlier ;-D