Monday

Hi again, everyone.  New week, same old!!

Thanks very much for your comments.  I think that when I say I have been lazy or idle, I mean I am doing things I want to do/enjoy doing rather than things I should be doing but am putting off - if that makes sense.
Somehow, things that are enjoyable never seem like work! 

I left home to go to Sainsbury's yesterday at 9:45 to get there pretty much as it opened and didn't get home until nearly 12:00.  It was packed.

In that time I had the best nosey round the shop (haven't been for ages), filled up with petrol and spent a ridiculous amount, none of which I regretted one little bit.
Sainsbury's had their Christmas range of clothes in so I had fun looking round, although I still think it's all a bit dull and dreary.  You couldn't say that for other areas of the shop - Christmas has landed good and proper.  I managed to get some Christmas gifts as well as stuff I was getting short of, I found a nice little bit of gammon for over Christmas and treated myself to a steak that was outrageously priced but there you go!  It's eaten now and was lovely!

Come the afternoon, I wrapped the gifts, sorted out the shopping, finished Lindsey's loaf and then enjoyed a knitting/crochet fest through some YouTube channels, Strictly results and the Game of Wool.

No spoilers but I was sad but not surprised to see the person leave.  It wont be long before the really good ones start dropping and it will be a case of 'who has had a bad show' rather than 'who is the weakest dancer'.
And there really are some good ones.

If you asked what I thought of Game of Wool, I would say . . . I don't really know.

I enjoyed it - anything to do with yarn is going to be enjoyable for me.  I didn't quite know what to expect and maybe the 'Sewing Bee' type of format needs to be modified somewhat in future series.  And I do hope it isn't chunky yarn and huge needles every week for the sake of speed.  Watching them made my hands ache!

I hope to see different yarn things coming up - crochet, weaving, maybe . . .??
And some teaching - I'd have loved a mini tutorial on how to weave yarn at the back in Fair Isle correctly.  Thirty seconds would have done it.

However, it was fun, it was colourful, I learned a few things, I loved the hand 'knits' everyone was wearing (including a hexi-cardigan that looked very like the one I made) and I think it will bring knitting into the modern era - which some people won't like, of course.
And it is new - it has to bed down and make its own way.  Give it time.

Did you watch it?  What did you think?

Today the new block starts and I am off to Circuits first thing.
Then, being Monday, it is housework day so I can safely say I won't feel lazy!  I am so glad I live now and not 100/150 years ago when housework really was unending, unrelenting, sunrise to sunset hard work.
Count your blessings, Joy, count your blessings.

And with that I will love you and leave you and start getting ready for Circuits.  See you tomorrow.  xx