Tangelled Angel

Message to Donni who left a comment on the previous post, I’m having problems with publishing your comment for some reason. I’ll try again later. But yes, it is Aussie wool and yes I am a very lucky girl!!
Meanwhile, we have balloons. In Bath, UK.
Lots of them.
Can you see what’s being advertised on this balloon? Click for larger image.

And while there we were very disappointed that we weren’t allowed to go for a dip in the Roman Baths, brought along our swimwear and everything!
(I’m joking, can you imagine going for a swim in that green water?)
The water wasn’t always green its the algae that has turned it like that, formed by constant exposure to the sun/weather. There used to be a cover over the baths and the water was clear.
There were a few lifeguards on duty, in case anyone got into trouble.
No, we weren’t the lifeguards. I’d probably sink someone by mistake.

We went on to Bristol
Bad picture taken out of the car window of the Suspension bridge, but gives you an idea of what it looks like.
Isn’t this really picturesque? Bristol is a lovely place, I hadn’t seen more than the airport, from car windows, and my rellies houses before this trip.
Somewhat unpatriotic? Click on the picture to see what the board says close up. Considering the amount of England flags and banners etc we saw around…I would say so!

My friends daughter. Isn’t she delightful??!!!!

To my delight, Angela was really interested in the fact that I knit, and had done a beautiful baby wrap herself for her daughter while she was pregnant.
I showed her a few links to get some patterns from the web, and the lucky thing is near Get Knitted so will be able to take advantage of that once they open again on the first Saturday of the month. They normally have an open day the first Saturday of the month but were closed for the summer months when I was there
But don’t worry, you can still order online!!

As I work during the day, every time I expect a parcel, I give my parents address. This means that it gets delivered safely, and there is no hassle with it, like getting home to find a note from An Post to say I need to go and collect it from the Post Office and the opening times are aimed at people who don’t have to travel from 13 miles away that takes them sometimes an hour and a half: i.e. they close at 3pm, very realistic time!

ANYway, getting off the point there.

I have an uncle over from the States, and we went up to my parents place last night to meet up with him for the evening and wine and dine.

Sitting on the hall table was a parcel.

For ME.

From my SECRET PAL.

I was so excited.

I had to wait though until I got home to open it, I didn’t want the questions asking all about it, I wanted to enjoy it in private.

Firstly, I want to say a big THANK YOU to my Secret Pal, you went to a lot of trouble and got it sooo right!

First up, I opened the parcel (no before photos, I wanted in there!) to find this gorgeous decorated box

As you can see, my SP decorated the lid with this cat and wool silhouette. Very nicely done.

And I do like my orange also (how did you tell?)

When I opened the box, there was a handwritten note from my Pal

And nestled underneath the note were these:

They seemed larger than 50g each, 100% wool and my secret pal said they would felt nicely. I already have the beginnings of a plan for them. Obviously I will need to add to what I have, but if needs be I can use this information to obtain more or I can use a different type of wool:

But wait, there’s more!

Some fantastic handmade stitch markers, and all who know me know how I like handmade stitch markers!

These will be used very very very soon, let me tell ya!

And, just in case I needed some refreshing smells, which I always like, some lovely smellies

I have a cold at the moment so despite ferocious sniffing; I couldn’t smell them for the life of me! Something to look forward to when the cold lifts a bit.

So thanks Secret Pal, you are THE best!

It’s been a long weekend in Ireland, and I spent it in Bristol and Bath, UK. Hence lack of posting the last few days (I took Friday off also)

Lovely weather.

Very hard at work at the moment, and busy out of work also, so this is short and sweet today: look, I managed to get a knitting on the bus pic in! This was this morning, and conveniently, there was a Dublin bus ticket stuck into the seat in front…. just to prove I was there with my knitting!

I will post some more pictures during the week.

Ta ra for now

Finished Curley Wurley scarf for a friend of Micheáls
Yarn: Patons 3 ply yarn (ebay purchase) (darker pink)held together with a recycled yarn (the lighter pink), finished off with Noro Blossom , which is the dark pink moving into the green.

Her husband had been sent some of those freaky knitting photo’s that were going around the internet, so he promptly named this the Intestine scarf…