What Katie Did:

Back in August

Is there a formula for packing and leaving a house and dog and garden for three weeks? If there is I don't know it.

Please return here in a few weeks time for more of my knitting, felting, matting, chatting, bargain hunting and of course, my lovely family!

I'll post some random photos for you for no reason at all, except I think a post without pictures is a bit dull.

I wonder if Poppy will behave herself for Bruce the House Sitter?

This is what John looked like on his 18th birthday - I wonder what he looks like now?
(John is a big Swedish Football Fan for some reason known only to himself)

I wonder if Owen is having as much fun in Cape Town as he was having this day?

My three year old neighbour Thea is always very confused about where Martha is when she goes back to university. Bristol and Cape Town are all the same to her!

And I wonder what the garden will look like when we get back?

Enjoy your July - I'll have such a lot of catching up to do when I get back.

July 05, 2006 in Family | Permalink | Comments (8)

July 03, 2006

Woolfest, England and counting down

A mixed post today and in no particular order... link heavy as the camera is in Cape Town!

Woolfest was really lovely on Saturday. Annie and Ann and Sue and Dorothy and Marget and Ruth and Lyn and Ann and Janet and Mary (I think that's everyone) all had a wonderful time too. I got some fabulous Rooster yarn in green and a sort of orangy colour, half alpaca and half merino, very soft and delicious. And some sock yarn made of 45% bamboo! (which I can't find a link for). I want to make some more felt balls too - like the ones at the top of my page, so I got fleece from Wingham Wool in all sorts of fabulous colours.

We had breakfast at The Village Bakery in Melmerby and after the wool buying and a great pic-nic lunch, Sue and I went to find a venue to watch the England v Portugal game. We found a pub in Cockermouth serving tea, set up our stools near the huge TV and got out our knitting! It should have been a wonderful end to a beautiful day, but for those of you who follow these things you'll know that it wasn't.

I have had a couple of emails from the kids in South Africa, none of them telling me anything I want to know. like what they are doing or how John is or where they are staying - nothing very informative. I got very excited when I saw one of the two mails had a photo attachment.... great - a picture of my three lovely children with maybe Table Mountain in the background??? I got more and more excited as the photo loaded..... then there is was......