This was the chart I treated myself to. It's a Mary Hickmott design, and you can buy her charts on Etsy, for an instant download. I couldn't wait to get started but oh boy, this is a complicated chart - especially as I am missing the ONE colour that is vital, that you start with in the centre. I went to Llandod yesterday to the little wool shop, to try and get the 9 missing colours I needed - I got 8. Tam has a shopping list of the last skein to track down in Aberystwyth this weekend. The bit I am on is the chimney and foliage behind it and the darkest colour there is the missing one for the foliage!
Henry VIII has been in the garden all winter - here he is showing off on top of the bird-feeders!
We have had miserable weather here yet again, and it rained nastily all morning, but left off long enough for us to get a short walk in down by the River. I have been feeling a bit "off" all day today, so haven't done much. I just want to wave a magic wand and have a few spring-like days to keep us going until spring does arrive. Yet there is the glitter of gold in the hedgerows, with the Hazel catkins in their full glory. The wheel has turned, a few weeks and we will have masses of celandines in full bloom along the banks. It can't come soon enough.
I had a lucky find in the books and dvd's for rehoming in Co-op this morning and made a donation for a book called The Good Life - Up the Yukon Without a Paddle by Forian Amos. It should be good reading, but I can only imagine after living in Polperro in Cornwall, they had a bit of a shock during their first winter in the Yukon!
