A Mug For Hooks

     Hello! Brrrrr! It's been a bit nippy at times hasn't it? So here's a bit of sunniness for you:     Well now, it's been a while since I last posted and I have to confess that not a lot has changed here. Apart from the back garden being turned into a quagmire and therefore being too dangerous to venture into. Unless you like slipping and sliding with the added possibility of sinking that is! At least it's not quite as grey, dark and dismal as it has been for the last few months - we have actually had a few days of sunshine! Super-cold wind mind you but sunshine none the less!     Let's have a catch-up!      📖 In my last post I mentioned I was probably going to start reading another collection of stories by Robert E. Howard but at the moment I can't reach that one - still got a bit of Post-Chistmas clutter to clear away! So instead I'm reading a collection of science fiction stories by  H.G. Wells, and as you might be able to guess, the first story i

     Waaaay back in Blogtober I mentioned I was going to write a post about the books I've been reading this year. The sharp eyed among you will have noticed that it never materialized. Well, I've finally managed to get round to writing it! Better late than never, as they say.     I should start by saying that for me it's been an odd year for reading; I was into it quite strongly still at the beginning of the year, but then my interest waned somewhat and I even started reading a few books and not finishing them! In fact, I gave up quite quickly on some of them. (Does that make them duff purchases or was it simply the wrong time for me to be reading them?) And to make matters worse, I seem to have fallen back into the habit of spending too much time on the internet at night, which of course is not helped by it being nearly Christmas and yours truly being chief online searcher and buyer for pretty much everyone else!     The first book I finished reading this year was "B

    Flippin' eck what a month! I honestly don't know where it's gone and I can't believe that it's nearly Christmas! You'd think the increasingly cold weather and all the Christmas films on Channel 5 would have given me a clue but no, thick as a brick me.     So, what have I been up to then ? I've had medical appointments I would rather not have had, although neither were as bad as I had thought they were going to be, and then just when I thought that was over, I got an email asking me to do something else! What do I have to do to get some peace from these people?     It was on one of these appointment days that we found out that we didn't have a usable land-line.  I was trying to phone home from a local haberdashery and yarn seller, and got a very weird beeping tone. Lifting the receiver when we got home, we could hear a very strange humming, crackling stuttering noise, which was still with us a week later. The BT website hadn't been much use, nor t

     I don't feel that I've done very well with this years Blogtobering. I had lots of ideas for it but I never actually got any of them started.  I was going to do more WIP-ing Sessions, a pattern folder sort out, a Tunisian Mitten Ta-da post and probably some other things which I didn't write down and have so far not remembered. Having a faster upload speed would have been helpful too!     I was actually in two minds whether or not to even do it this year after last years attempt. But then I thought it might  be a good distraction from "other things" that I'd rather not acknowledge. I was wrong, of course, and it became just something else to stress about. I suppose it would be easier to do this type of thing if I actually had a life to tell you about, but I don't so I can't.     I was not expecting the Granny Square Project to take as long as it is, and it is becoming a bit of a chore-bore - and we all know what happens when you get bored of somethi

     Today has been rather naff. This morning was soooo very grey and dark and wet that it seemed my mood plummeted with every minute. Add to that everyone else's less than chirpy moods, and it was really wasn't a fun few hours.     It did brighten up a bit over lunch/dinner time, (We have our main meal/dinner at lunchtime on a Sunday) and while we ate we listened to the second half of "The Ultimate Dirty Dancing" cd which has got some top tunes on it and certainly cheered me up a bit. Dinner was Meatballs, Noodles and Stir-fry in a Moroccan Meatball Sauce and was rather yummy. Much better than yesterday's Chinese take-away.     The afternoon was a bit dull, to be honest it's always been one of those times of the week that seem rather pointless, but later on we finished off a batch of Rock Buns and we watched the last episode of "Mrs. Sidhu Investigates". I've quite enjoyed this series, even though it's quite light, but then, do you really wa

     It's been a bit of an odd day today. It did rain briefly in the morning, and then it cleared, then it clouded over and rained again! Then, it cleared again! And right now it is raining quite heavily!! At least it put an end to the fireworks.     Don't you just hate those things? I mean , it's not even Bonfire night yet, and they were so close you could hear the fizzy-crackles on the roof!     I had Shortbread Fingers with my cup of tea this morning - it's Saturday, what do you expect - and then at lunchtime we had a Crumpet each. We watched the second episode of "A Discovery Of Witches" which is currently being shown on Sky Mix on Freeview. It's not bad actually, so far, but I do wonder if it's all going to get a bit "Twilight"-ish? Know what I mean?     This evening we watched a film I got for my birthday called "Prince Of Darkness". No, not the Christopher Lee film, but a 1987 film by John Carpenter starring Donald Pleasence