Bit of this and knit of that

Do you know despite there being plenty of knitting going on for a particular project, its a non-bloggable project. This I can imagine must be really hard for my secret pal to bear. I wonder if I should break my rule and branch out into multiple projects at a time so I can actually show pictures of knitting! Once I have got Xmas out of the way which scarily is 3 weeks tomorrow, I will be starting with MM's aran jumper. I did start knitting the tension square for it and put it down back at the end of April to pick it back up again when I got back from the week in France. Needless to say we're seven months on and its still not seen the light of casting on. One of the issues for me was that the tension was so ridiculously tight I thought I was at thought. A friend of mine I was talking to after I got back from France tried it on a size smaller than I was on at the time and told me she had managed the tension. Have to say though that MM is not crying out for it but the weather up here is somewhat on the snowy side at the moment so guess it would have been nice to have been wearing it.

Talking of which the snowy weather around these parts is quite peculiar. The area where I work is plain cold, Bingley is also cold and a bit icy. Here at home its covered in snow and ice. Its all to do with the elevation rising the further you come out of workplace. Its nice scenery to look out on but when you need to ring the office to say you're snowed in and there's nothing at work its had to be believed.

Talking of the festive season I've pulled out all of the decorations from where they are kept for the rest of the year. We've decorated our room in the office at work with garlands and a few of the dangling ones as well. We pooled our money together and bought a fibre optic tree. It does look quite nice and I would consider having one at home but the one at work is only 3 foot and for home would like a nice 6 foot tree. I'm in London on Saturday so Sunday will see me putting all of the decorations up here and making the Christmas cake. I wasn't going to make one this year as the past couple of years have seen me buying a slab of cake as I no longer make them en masse for work colleagues. However, I have the knitting group I go to coming to my house on 23rd for the meeting so thought it would be nice. I bought a couple more of the knitting murder mystery books by Maggie Sefton and one of the recipes featured is for mint fudge but its US in origin and I don't want to try to hunt all the ingredients so I'm going to see if I've got a recipe for fudge and just whack in the mint essence.

Oh well needles are a calling.

Monster Mog Update (Updated)

Well its hard to believe that the feller is 25 weeks old already. The time (in some respects) seems to have flown by. Sizewise he is already as big as Lara and not sure whether or not he is going to exceed Cairo in size as well.

He is still fond of my pillow at night and still giving my nightly lullabies of purring me to sleep. He is however somewhat fond of running off with my balls of yarn if he's given the opportunity. He also has a fondness for pens and pencils. I find it quite humorous though when he growls at his prey that he has run off with.

I also have to say whoever it was that said cats tongue bristles soften as they grow up from kittens lied. I still find them as rough as ever they were when he washes me in bed. He also stills nips my nose.

He has also now got accustomed to wearing his collar so thats on full-time now. Its also surprising that he, Lara and Cairo all wear bells on their collars and they all sound different. He's still got a kitten meow and I do hope it stays that way as its nice :)

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