Sunday Yarn Additions

We’ve been having a rough week. It started out on Monday with our boy rat showing a large head tilt and a bit of weakness. Two vets visits later and he seems to be a whole lot better; even if he still hates the taste of Baytrill (I don’t blame him!)

Work has been frustrating this week with my visual basic code throwing weird bugs at me; and finding out I’m not eligible for a program that would train me properly on how to write above vba code.

Then to top it all off Rhys got his bike stolen Friday. Chained up with a bike lock outside of work; in front of a supposedly working CCTV camera. The bike wasn’t worth a huge amount of money, but enabled Rhys to get backwards and forwards to work quickly and efficiently. You do everything right and chain it up and some sods still come along and take what isn’t theirs. It makes you sick; so a good chunk of our time on Friday was spent talking to Gwent police and to our home insurance. So he now has 2 new bike locks with different style chains and locks; Fingers crossed that they’ll be deterred by this. Nice insurance company have confirmed they’ll cover a new bike so I’m just waiting until payday on Monday so I can pay the excess.

Friday I made a trip to Lidl as part of their special offer this week was Sock “Thread”. It was 4 balls for £4. 2 colours per pack (I’ve only taken pictures of one ball of each here).£2 for a pair of socks; can’t beat that!

The Navy solid is earmarked for my Dad’s Birthday next year and Rhys wants the orange variegated at some point.

Today we made a trip to Aldi as they had other yarn in this week. I bought 2 balls of this Aran weight yarn. It’s a wool acrylic blend and is destined to be a Ranger for Rhys next year.

I also picked up some Baby yarn as it was a reasonable price and always handy to have on hand. Although traditional colours are not really in my palette at the moment people I knit for (like my Mum) do like the traditional colours.

Finally in finished objects we have a simple cushion. This is going to be for my Auntie for Christmas.

At the end of each month I’m going to try and set some goals for the following month.

This month I have a week off work so I’m hoping to get at least 4 Christmas presents finished this month and my Year of Socks project. That will leave me with 2 Christmas presents to finish by December which sounds like a nice goal!

I’d put a photograph of Dad’s sleeves in here apart from they’re not interesting at all – just a bit longer than they were before!

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