Monday

I've really got the Monday blues!! Although this will be my last ever Monday at work, as after this week Istart my part time hours. I daresay I will get Tuesday blues instead!
In the end I started something completely different for Tom - I dug out the Debbie Bliss Cashmerino I bought when he was born. I only have enough yarn to knit one particular sweater, the polo shirt, so this I have started. I've done the back and have almost done the front. I think I am going to be tight for the yarn though.....maybe if I knit quicker I can finish before the yarn runs out???

Pondering

What do I knit next? I have finished an aran Jacket for Tom, and am halfway through a cardigan for a friend who is now almost and ex-friend, so I don't feel inspired to continue with that except for the sake of tidiness. But then what? I have started a coat for me but that is huge and would be best knitted in the winter. There is a jumper I want to get done for Tom, then I am itching to start a few crochet projects despite not having learnt to crochet yet - who says I am a pessimist?
Then there is a shawl thingy and a couple of scarves that I have ready to start. I'm off on a beach holiday in a week's time, so I need something small for that where I can keep it under control and not have the ball of wool go bouncing off into the sand. Maybe I should take my' learn to crochet' book and crocheted bag project for the beach, and a scarf for when I get fed up with crochet. But then what for the evenings? Can't be Tom's jumper as I don't want Jen to see it before it is done. The friend's cardigan then, which means I can start Tom's jumper tonight. Yes, I like the sound of that plan!!

A decision made

I have made my decision at last after a lot of agonising. I've decided not to carry on with the OU, at least not in the near future. I'm greatly disappointed yet at the same time wondering who I was kidding. I'm never going to be a great intellect, so what was I trying to prove. All it did was alienate my family and suck up lots of time. I have been trying to put myself up on a higher level, thinking I am toointelligent to spend hours in front of the TV, yet but by thinking wasn't I somehow looking down on the rest of my family who are happy to do precisiely that? It will be easy to slip back into old habits of just vegging on the sofa watching TV but at least I will be able to carry on crafting. I will miss the way my mind was opened by the OU, how I started to delight in the arts and appreciate other cultures and ways of thinking. But I am only Mrs Average and nothing special, so who am I do try and get above myself?
Plus, I can't afford it.

About the Starlight Walk

Here's an article about the Starlight Walk I did.

My group have raised over £1,200 for the hospice and I feel very proud to have been part of it.

Boy oh boy!!

Last night I joined a walking group for a 3.5 mile walk. I found it harder than anything I have done before, even last weeks 9 mile walk. I think maybe it's an accumultion of the 9 miles last Saturday and the 5 mile bike ride on Tuesday evening. I couldn't get into my stride last night and I was really out of breath. Today I am so, so tired and sleepy! The sleepines is no doubt down to the poor nights sleep on Tuesday night - the heat was really getting to me.
Anyway - tonight and tomorrow I will be just knitting in front of the tv, which hopefully will set me up for my cycle lesson on Saturday morning. Then I think it's a short walk on Sunday, just to keep up the momentum a bit, and I plan to cycle to work next Monday and Friday and walk again on the Wednesday. That way I will be alternating rest days with each activity day which seems sensible for now. I do want to fit in some gym work as well for upper body toning, but we'll see how I do next week!

Some pics

Starlight Walk last Saturday



The team - me on far right













Me with silly bobbles















And so thrilled I did it!!! (Thats hubby on the far right)

I did it!!

I managed the 9 mile sponsoredd walk despite the groin injury (adductor tendonitis). The first 20 minutes was painful but then the pain just went. I guess the walking must have relaxed the tendon. I can't tell you how thrilled I am, it's just such a big thing for a couch potato like me!
So, I've now decided to do the London Moonlight Walk next year...