Ever such a long time

since I’ve blogged properly.

Much working going on, and some moderately horrendous driving. I’ve also carried on with the odd bit of decluttering here and there. Thrown out about another 3 or 4 bags of rubbish last weekend, quite impressive given that I only went at it on Sun afternoon!

Haven’t really managed to fit in any crochet this week – have spent evenings vegging to a variety of TV shows, including CSI (the original and the sunglasses edition) with occasional segues into Heroes and Numbers. Tonight we’re enjoying Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (2001), ages since we’ve watched any Buffy, but was inspired to dig out this episode after watching When Janet met Johnny from Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps – Series 1-6 Box Set [2001] the other night.

Hoping to feel craftily inspired this weekend, as I’ve received my delivery via Canada from the Annies Attic sale a month or so back. Great bundle of booklets, and some Tunisian crochet hooks. Looking forward to getting to grips with that, although my first couple of attempts were somewhat lopsided. Not quite sure where I’m going wrong with it, but I daresay I’ll figure it out.

Big was enthralled with a booklet of patterns for Victorian dolls dresses – could entice her into crochet along with me yet 😉 Also got my pattern a day calendar – slightly disappointed with it tbh. The box is fiddly and arrived slightly damaged – Tim thinks manufacturing fault rather than transit accident. Then there isn’t a pattern a day – I’ve only looked through the first month and several patterns span 2 or more days. The paper is very thin – might be OK as a throw away cartoon a day style thing, but if you’ve just bought a few hundred patterns, the odds are you were planning to keep them.

All in all, it just hasn’t been thought through at all, and unless there is some really compelling reason to think differently next year, I won’t be indulging again. (Don’t get me wrong though, the patterns I’ve looked at so far I really like. It’s the idea that they are going to get crumpled and lost very easily that’s annoying me).

I’ll attempt to actually do some real blogging at some point this weekend – at the moment if I read back through all of this, I wouldn’t have a clue what was happening in our lives, and that isn’t the idea at all!