Brrr!
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♥Jan. 16th, 2012 // 02:47 pm♥
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The canal froze last night, and indeed is still frozen now: only the second time it's frozen over this winter.
On the drive out of town, I kept seeing ominous patches of frost here and there by the roads, and indeed when I got to Bexley it looked like something from a Christmas card. I was going to take a photo of the spectacular covering of ice crystals on a drink can that had evidently been left out overnight, but then I realised that I'd left my phone at home: oops!
One advantage of the cold is that the mud has all frozen: it took me about five minutes to groom GB, other than doing his tail, which was a nice reminder of How Things Used To Be! After that, much to his expected annoyance, I stuck the side saddle on him and did twenty minutes (v impressed with myself: I've been doing about fifteen, and needing to stop and swing my leg onto the other side of the saddle for a rest half way through!), which actually included some slightly more interesting things than just bouncing around in a circle.
Then I swapped the saddles over and joined in the lesson that was about to start: more interesting than previously, and I suspect that I will end up doing it with the side saddle, once the side saddle lady has been later this week to see what can be done about improving the fit.
By the time I was finished, even allowing for the fact that I'd been riding for an hour and a half, it was actually quite warm, as long as you stayed in the sun; still bitterly cold in the shade, though. I did have my silly hat on, though, so maybe not all *that* warm.
Now I suppose I'd better call back the pimp who set me up with an interview last Friday, and see what he wants: he called while I was out, and did I mention I'd forgotten my phone...?
PS: any more for the deathlist, before I do a list of the nominees? I'm missing a few of the Usual Suspects, and though I should check! |
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Weaving!
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♥Jan. 16th, 2012 // 04:12 pm♥
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Over the last six months or so, I've been weaving green-ish-brown-ish-blu-ish squares and triangles, some with a pattern and some plain.
Over the last week or so, I've been sewing them together....
I was very vaguely following this pattern, although I went for neither triangle nor rectangle nor v-shaped, instead making an isosceles trapezium. I observe on looking at it now for the first time in ages that the pattern calls for a crocheted trim around the edge. Hmm. I've never tried crotchet, and I'm not sure if I want to start. We shall see.
Anyway: not terribly interesting pictures ( here )
I'm very pleased that it's finished in time for Holiday*, because I suspect it will get nippy in the desert at night and I'll want a nice little light wrap. I'm also pleased because now that that's finished I can try out the knitting loom I bought a few months ago!
(In more embarrassing news, I just had a phone call from a pimp I didn't know about a job that I have neither memory nor record of having applied for and that, when she told me about it, not only doesn't sound very interesting but also doesn't sound like the sort of thing I'd have applied for unless the advert was shockingly poorly written. I went "Mmm hmm?" a lot.)
* No, I don't think you did know about that, which is very remiss of us. World events permitting, we're off to Ras Al Khaimah for a week next month. We're going to get some sun and some warm, and we're going to ride ponies in the desert and try falconry and look at nature and stuff like that. We might even leave the resort, if we're feeling particularly dynamic: apparently, they have some good History there. |
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