Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

lucielle

War Horse is most excellent, saw it at the weekend.
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Igamogam

War Horse - could turn out to be a bit like Marmite. Excellent story and horse deserves an Oscar because the human actors are....... well......... wooden? Lots of staring into the middle distance. However like I said a good story and a tear jerker and a few moments which will make you wince. Quite rightly given its 12 rating as some scenes a little harrowing

moo2moo

and so yesterday OHs purchase from The Boat Show arrived. Obviously not here because that would be far too sensible. Instead the courier delivered it to the neighbours of a very bemused lady in a village with a name nothing like ours, a surname nowt like ours, even the postcode was different. Went to pick it up to find the box mangled and clearly resealed several times prior to the shipping label being placed on it. Unsurprisingly when we opened it half the contents were missing and the remaining bits damaged. OH is livid. Irate e-mail duly sent.

Means my evening knitting in peace was instead spent drinking coffee with a total stranger which was infinately better than it sounds. OH was not impressed that I was gone for an entire hour and was v. newted when I got back. No chance of me finishing the hat for tomorrow, not if I plan on sleeping tonight. Did finish knitting my first jumper sleeve though which is most excellent! Although it used 100g of wool which is half my remaining ball so I definately don't have enough to finish the jumper or even get as far as the shoulders. Bah!

Knitting_Nora

moo2moo wrote: »

and so yesterday OHs purchase from The Boat Show arrived. .......Went to pick it up to find the box mangled and clearly resealed several times prior to the shipping label being placed on it.

I'll be honest, when I read the first few words I did wonder whether you'd had a boat turn up on the doorstep! :rotfl:

ebayqueen_2

Moo I was thinking of the poor wee woman with the boat at her front door :):)

What are men like when things don't go their way:):)

deep breath and count to 100 Moo

moo2moo

Clearly you're all used to normal people. The OH does not fit into this category which is why the mysterious package has nothing whatsoever to do with boats, not even if you use lots and lots of imagination. OH is perhaps the only person on the planet who can go to a boat show and come home having bought a loft ladder. Even I was floored at that one. Have arranged for it to be exchanged at some point today.

Spent minimal time on the hat again last night. Just too tired. Didn't get home from work until v. late. Spent most of the morning in whoopsie heaven at Macro having been dispatched there by the boss to buy a new vacuum. Bought ridiculous amounts of stuff eventually ending up with 4kg of bacon, something approaching 400 sausages, 5 x 9l Really Useful boxes, 10 pairs of winter hiking socks, a few dozen loo rolls and a couple of other bits for £60. Both freezers are heaving again.

Spent a bit too long surfing t'internet and have joined my first ever knit along which is a virtual knitting group based in the US so they'll all be asleep when I'm aewake but at least I can post random help messages of which I suspect there will be plenty. Have to keep reminding myself that I only started knitting in August so tackling somthing huge labelled as moderate to difficult really isn't the brightest thing to do but life would be so dull if I did what I was supposed to do and so hitting the needles in the very near future will be "Ella on a Shoestring". Whilst the original technicolour floorlength one is fab its not something I'd ever wear so I'm thinking varying shades of greys and blues with a little pale pink to soften it and the odd zap of magenta to give it some wow factor.

I did fall for Madelinetosh but then discovered it would set me back £25 a skein which equates to something in the region of £300 to make the coat and is just a smidgen out of my league. Especially if I never wear the finished article. So instead I'm going to play about with a bit of left over Patons Smoothie in the hopes I can get the right gauge without making the whole thing look too flimsy. Otherwise I've got to go for an aran whic looks cheap and nasty until you get into the wool based stuff which is far too expensive to even consider. Was hoping to find somthing suitable for 1p per metre which equates to about £25 for the whole thing but may have to up this a smidgen as the cheapest I can find smoothie is about £2.60 a ball (1.3p per metre) and I've a feeling I'll need about 13 of them, more if I get carried away with the stipes and have a lot of colour changes. Still it should keep me busy for about 6 months.

Need to finish the hat in order to play about and see if I can get the right gauge before visting Hobbycraft on Sunday to play about with whatever lurks on their shelves in the hopes that the colours I like on t'internet work well together in reality.

Thats a whole 24 hours away though and between nowand then I have an E-bay parcel to wrap and post, bathrooms to clean and a house to tidy in readiness for the weekend.

Helen105

Hello Moo

Just a quick post to say have you discovered Texere yet? http://www.texere-yarns.co.uk/index.html
you should go next time you are in Yorkshire, it's a really atmospheric mill in Bradford. Take cash not cards though to avoid temptation.

DD1 is on Ravelry too. My favourite of her creations is the knitted sperm, he is very cute. Her boyfriend asked him to knit him something, but nothing too girly.

moo2moo

Busy, busy, busy. Listed something on E-bay at 99p. Had an offer of £17 cash for it ten minutes later. Only another 13 identical items to shift. Happy days! It will go a long way towards my next project

Much faffing about achieved at work. Now have two days with the DDs to look forward to.

moo2moo

Went to bed at midnight. Rudely awoken at 2, 3, 5 and 7am by the other occupants of the house. Feel like a zombie today. Just as well theres not much of anything going on.

Have another 2cm of hat to go before I can change colour and then 6 rows before I can start shaping it. Hopefully about two hours to finish it. Which means I can swatch for the coat and hopefully pick up a couple of auctions on E-bay at a sensible price if the gauge is right. Also seems I can order the yarn in question from Dunelm Mill for £2.25 a ball, but their colour range is very restricted.

Free listing on E-bay. Since I've still got stuff lurking I'm going to bung a few more bits on and relist some of the stuff that didn't shift last week. Boring as hell but the cash comes in v. handy.

moo2moo

Dunelm's range might be very restrictive but it turns out they hold some of it in stock, or at least they did as a few balls are now lurking in my drawers. Spured on by this I finished the hat and knitted half a jumper sleeve. Will need to see if I can track down another ball of wool for that tomorrow otherwise things will come grinding to a halt.

Bunged another couple of things on E-bay and negotiated a one way trip to the tip for a geriatric armchair. Will have to wait until mid-week to take it there but at least its on its way.We'll still have far more furniture than we need but its reducing in volume slowly.

Helped DD2 tidy her room which filled another bag with outgrown clothes. Rearranged the furniture to give her a bit more space.

Plans for today involve Hobbycraft. Nuff said. Will attempt to be very restrained and stick only to those things I really want rather than those it would be nice to have. Using the recent E-bay funds to finance this because I'm worth it!