Long time no blog

OK, I suppose I should apologise or something because it's been about a week since I wrote anything on here. Maybe I don't need to because I'm not sure anyone actually reads it, apart from my mum who's been on holiday. I suppose the truth is that I'm put off about writing about my life by the thought that some creep/nutcase is sitting at home reading it, just in case I let slip any information about my anti-fashist (I spelt that wrong on purpose) activities. By in case you ar reading, hi to all of you and just so you know, I am not involved in any activist groups, I have barely done anything political in my life except vote and I don't know anything about anybody else that does. Just because I don't believe the same things as you do doesn't mean I deserve to be punished in some way.

I feel better now I've got that out of my system. I had a lovely weekend in North Yorkshire at my friends' wedding. It was a really relaxed doo in a marquet, outside a B+B on an farm. We had a hog and lamb roast (haloumi cheese for the veges), followed by some lovely local cheese and cake. There was a free bar with local ales on tap, and lots of wine too. Once the serving staff had left we all got to have a go at pulling our own pints. We danced the night away (well we danced till about 2am), before getting delivered back to out cosy B&B. Even the weather behaved itself and it didn't rain until about 11 pm.

Leicester drunks:

I think it's probably the most enjoyable wedding I've been to in a long time. I really enjoyed having a proper dance. There were no people dancing properly (i.e. with proper steps etc.), so we were all free to flail our arms around, bang our heads or indie shuffle as approriate. We were all a little bit worse for wear yesterday morning (some more so than others) and we had slow, lazy journey back to Leicester. I hope the happy couple are having a fab time on their honeymoon.

In knitting news, I'm part way through knitting a pair of Broadstreet mittens (i.e. fingerless gloves with a mitten flap) in Regia 6 ply. I'm doing them on 2.5 mm DPNs because I wanted them a bit smaller than the pattern suggested.


I've wanted to do some gloves for ages. There's something really pleasing about making them that I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe it's because they're so fiddly.

When I came in this morning I found a little parcel on my desk with this lovely choker in it, made for me by my officemate Natalie (of the North Pole Socks fame). It's from the Asphyxiation pattern from the Anticraft. It's so lovely to have something made for me, especially something so beautiful. Thanks very much Natalie.

I'll take a picture of it tonight when I am wearing something more appropriate.