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Holiday in Pictures

As the title may suggest this post is picture heavy!

We had a wonderful holiday. My head is starting to feel a bit more normal but I'm waking up so late!

On the plane

Knitting on my Dad's deck

Walking around Berry College

Outside The Knitting Emporium

Inside The Knitting Emporium

Wow! This shop is amazing! It's a converted house, so has 3-4 'bedrooms', as well as the 'living room', FULL of yarn!

I went a bit nutso in the SOCK YARN ROOM (wow!!!) and bought:

L-R: Hand Painted Knitting Yarns Sock Superwash, Cherry Tree Hill Supersock, Noro Kureyon Sock, ShibuiKnits Sock and Plymouth Yarns Happy Feet.

In Athens

At the flea market in Collinsville, AL

DeSoto Falls

Ross canoeing on Lake Weiss

You can view all 197 pictures here.

All in all a very busy couple of weeks! I really don't want to go back to work...

We have arrived!

We arrived on Saturday evening and haven't done much except eat and drink!!

It's 27 degrees here...

More to come soon.

Back home and missing the smell of turf...

We got back from Ireland yesterday evening. It was fantastic!

On Thursday, we arrived at about 4pm and were pretty tired, so headed straight to the leisure centre in our hotel and sat in the sauna and jacuzzi for a bit. Then we headed to the restaurant for dinner and were so full up afterwards, all we could do was waddle back to our room and fall asleep. On Friday, we headed into the town centre of Ennis and had a wander about. The weather was pretty bad so we found a pub and sank a few pints. On Saturday, we hopped on a bus and went to Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. So much to see! The folk park has recreated 19th century Irish rural life and a typical village. Lots of turf fires, sheep and hens.

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Paris

Our day trip to Paris yesterday was fantastic. We had the perfect weather for this time of year - a clear, crisp and sunny winter day.

We arrived at Gare du Nord at about 11am, and headed straight to the Eiffel Tower. It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be!

   
 

It took me a while to get my head round the Metro system,but once I realised how it worked it was easy. Don't think we ever waited more than 5 minutes for a train either!

Our next stop was Cathédrale Notre Dame, which was my highlight of the day. It's beautiful! It has a very relaxed and warm feel to it.

   

We stopped off for lunch and a carafe of wine in the Latin Quarter, and then headed to the haven that is Le Bon Marche's haberdashery. I bought 2 balls of Phildar Preface - yes, more sock yarn.

After that we had a quick look at L'Arc du Triomphe, then walked down the Champs Élysées and went into Monoprix to stock up on wine and cheese.

Our last stop of the day was at the Champagne bar in St. Pancras, and we finally got home at about 10pm.

You can see all the pictures here. I'm off to drink Chablis and put my feet up after all that walking!

We have returned!

We have returned from Latitude! I'm feeling pretty done in, but it was good fun. We saw lots of bands, some comedy, did a lot of walking around the beautiful site and ate lots of food :)

 

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Bands we saw: Wilco,The Magic Numbers, Midlake, Maps, The Lionheart Brothers, CSS, Herman Dune, Elvis Perkins, Arcade Fire, Jarvis Cocker, The Rapture, Hello Saferide, Gruff Rhys, Camera Obscura, Charlotte Hatherley, Ra Ra Riot, and the Silversun Pickups. We also watched Alan Carr and Adam Hills in the Comedy tent.

I am very happy to be home with running water, electricity, a flushing toilet and a real bed!

Right, now as soon as I feel with it, I'm going to cast on for a new project....

Off to Latitude!

I have just finished my Chevron Scarf!

Pattern: taken from an issue of Simply Knitting, not sure which

Yarn Used: 3 balls of Wendy Fusion in Cajun

I'll be offline until early next week as we're off to Latitude tomorrow! Keep your fingers crossed for me that it doesn't rain (too much!!!).

Only one project left on the needles! I'll be casting on for something when I get back...

Oh, I also wanted to add - If I don't reply to your comment don't worry - I'm not ignoring you!! For some reason Typepad isn't e-mailing all of my comments to me; I've raised a ticket with them. Anyone else having this problem?

What a shambles

We've just returned from York! This is a picture of The Shambles (note Sheepish is on the right):

 

Had a great time, but now it's back to reality. Actually, that isn't too bad, because Christmas is so close!

Going to sign off now as it's 10:45am, I'm still in my dressing gown, and the grocery delivery is due between 11am - 1pm. Then we're off for a bit of Christmas shopping.

Conveniently Timed Visit

I've just bought train tickets to visit my sister in York. It's been literally years  since I've visited her (she always comes to see me here in London) and I can't wait!

I wonder what could possibly be going on just a 30 minute train ride away from York? Hmm... Is it the Knitting and Stitching show in Harrogate, by any chance?

Now, I didn't plan this at all. I promise. I suggested the dates about a month back and only realised today that it's on the same weekend. The thing is, if it's easy to get battered by old ladies in London, imagine what it will be like in York! It's impossible to walk around in town without getting barged! So, here's the plan - if I go and my sister is unfortunate enough to be dragged along, I will ensure that we pay a visit to the pub first and have a couple of whiskies.

Is anyone else planning a visit to Harrogate? or has anyone been before and can tell me if it's worth it? I'm just curious to know if they'll have a lot of the same vendors as Ally Pally, or if it's as big.

Better sign off and catch my bus home. That's if it shows up (I have sent a rather moany e-mail to TfL).

Off again...

I'm buggering off for a few days again, this time to Norfolk. Catch up with y'all on Sunday!

We have returned (with many pictures)

Okay, technically it's not a Saturday sky as I took this picture yesterday, but it is soooo much better than the grey overcast London sky today:

Dublin was fantastic - again. Here's the view from our hotel room:

On the Thursday we went to Howth. If you ever visit Dublin for a few days I cannot recommend this trip enough!!! Only 20 minutes on the train (€4.95 return) and you're in a beautiful fishing village:

       

and if those views aren't a good enough reason, please let me introduce you to the best fish and chips I have ever eaten:

I'll leave you with some more pictures I took from the plane. I'm off to update my swap spreadsheet!

Hyde Park

Hammersmith Bridge