Crafty Little Rat

  After all the yarn I bought on Holiday, my Yarn Diet starts here. I have a great stash ; with yarns in there going back to 2012 that I know of. Some probably even before. There’s never been any shame in having a large stash for me, but I feel that there’s a lot of things I had saved for certain projects and I’ve not yet had time to do them and never will if I keep buying yarn like sheep are going extinct. In the mean time I have some FINISHED things to show off! Finally a better picture of my World Cup Socks. I was supporting The Netherlands with a bright hand dyed William of Orange colourway. The pattern was Anastasia and I really really enjoyed making these. They’re very comfy too; knit toe up with a short row heel. Next up was July’s year of Socks. I knitted BroadRipple but because I grabbed the yarn and the pattern before leaving home I knitted them on size 2.5 mm needles instead of 3.0’s. I could really have done with the 3’s. I’m actually planning to knit August’s socks

  I’m hopefully going to be writing a little more to clear a backlog of posts I’ve wanted to write but been unable to while my computer was messed up; but first some sad sad news. We had to have our Esk put to sleep yesterday. She was nearly 2, which is an average age for a rat but seeing her sisters still so full of live made it so much harder. She had something wrong with her brain. With rats that’s about as much as you get to know diagnostically. We could have put her through an MRI to see if it was a tumour or if she’d had a stroke but the end results would have been the same – palliative care so there was no real need to put her through that. She was the friendliest of the group of 4 girls. She was always running up to the cage bars to see you and she used to nibble the hard skin on the side of my fingers. Our little rattie manicurist.   In Tiffany’s last days she played the role of body guard and protector. No one even dared touch Tiffany without Esk attacking them! One

It's nearly time for our family (that is me, Rhys and the 2 poorly rats we brought) to go back "home" to Newport. I'll have lived there for 2 years this September and it's still "home". Anyway I thought I should catch up on a few weeks of photos. Most of these are from my phone and have been run through Instagram Filters. I'm CraftyLittleRat on there - sorry if you see these twice.  These last two weeks I've raced through books. This pile here were all about Stories, Myths and Legends. I'm using GoodReads (Again Crafty Little Rat) to keep tabs of what I've read and want to read. This Holiday I've read, An Abundance of Katherines Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone 45 Pounds Icelandic Folk Tales and Fairytales Beasts of Myth and Mysters Scandinavian Troll: It's life and History Celtic Myths and Ledgends Icelandic Trolls Lincolnshire Folk Tales We Were Liars. I'm starting now on The Book Theif - Which I'

Oh it's been a whole while again hasn't it? This time around it's computer problems, my primary hard drive died. HP were fantastic in delivering the new hard drive, but we are STILL waiting for the recovery media. Luckily someone had a Windows 8 disk, and I'd found out and written down my product key. Otherwise someone would have been very annoyed that he couldn't play his games when we we're away. Yes we're away! I've stolen a few moments from Rhys to go on my laptop and read the blogs and write up a post. This moment happens to be at 7.32am (woken at 5 by the sunlight!) but I'll take it. We've come up to my parents again in Lincolnshire, leaving our house to Rhys' sister for the 2 weeks. We're having a great time already, we came up Friday and have been having such a lovely lazy time of things. I've read 3 books, knitted half a pair of socks, and played a bit of Wii U. So last time I wrote I'd finished the March socks fo