Yarnivorous

G'day all! Anyone got any good info on Bristol in the UK? I am sure that my stats counter lies. It says that I had 120 visitors since my last post. I cannot believe that because it means that out of 120 visitors, only ONE wished me a happy birthday. When I visit a blog and it is someone's birthday, I wish them a happy birthday. I sorta assume that visitors to my blog will do the same. Hell, over 100 people wished Steph's husband a happy birthday and he doesn't even blog! So I want to believe that my stats counter lies because I don't want to believe that knitblog land cannot be bothered making a simple comment. OK, my blog sucks badly because I write what I want to write on it but like the stats must be wrong. Surely. It must be the various forms of google checking to see if the pages are still there that bumps my stats up to about 50-60 a day. Please may the stats be wrong because otherwise knitblogger land is not what I thought it was and I am silly enoug...

Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday dear me-ee, happy birthday to me! (And remember only a year until my mumble-party so y'all come on down!) (pics later when it is not late! I got some good stuff, even if I did buy most of it for me)

G'day all! Well it has been another day. We are still broiling here - it was over 30 degrees and humid again! To be honest with you, I don't think I am smelling so fresh any more. I have so much tidying to do and you know how much I've done tonight? Not a cracker! I've been too busy feeling hot and watering the plants and trying to get the cats to actually do something about the half fledged blackbird they found. Useless cats. Blackbirds are feral here and displace native birds. I hateses blackbirds. They make horrid noises and dig up my worms. Now today was a very interesting day. I thought it was going to be totally poxy when I got to the station and realised a) my handbag's handle was broken b) I had totally forgotten to bring any lunch with me c) I had forgotten to grab any money d) after I bought the paper that I only had $1.50 e) my train was cancelled f) I was going to arrive at work half an hour later than I wanted g) my train was quite full and not...

G'day all! Well what a day it has been. Firstly welcome little Nicholas Edward (aka Cleatus Claymore) who was born on Halloween. Perfect timing for a little devil! 8lb 10oz - a good sized baby! Lest you think I am not doing anything crafty, I show you a three month old sized singlet front, missing a b for baby:He will be able to wear this sooner than I expected if he keeps the weight on and stays ahead of the pack. He will be able to wear this sooner than I expected if he keeps the weight on and stays ahead of the pack. I did manage to get the hot water heater lit on the third go round. Scared the dickens out of me when the gas went WHUMP! I nearly fell over backwards. I didn't expect it to light for me. Obivously your kind thoughts made the difference :-) Plus I got two mossie bites :-( Mossie love me, but they love my FiL more so I like having him around when we are have a barbie - they go for him not me. YAY! (I am such a good DiL!) Is mossie not a common term elsewhe...

G'day all! I'm running hot and cold today. Tomorrow it will be all cold unless I can get the hot water heater lit again (I've never managed so far). It is really hard to get the dishes washed when the hot water has to come out of a kettle. I have no idea why the water heater has stopped heating water but I have an idea that the pilot light has blown out again. Of course this has happneed when Nathan is not around and he has the knack for relighting the thing. I sadly lack the knack. I am not going to live for a week without hot water! You might be most pleased to know that the batteries charged for the camera. I took about 20 pics of roses then came inside to download all the pics, got them off the camera and the batteries died! Like what is with that? I only got about 20 minutes use out of them! So I don't have any craft pictures, again, cos I don't have charged batteries. Grump. Stupid batteries. Maybe it is the stupid battery charger. I wonder if I c...

G'day all! Well I've seen Nathan off at the airport, I've driven to my sister's place 300km away, totally failed to see any of the things I wanted to see on the way up there (but did get to see some really nifty plants in a roadside stop on the way up and flogged past a heap of other good stuff, promising myself to get pics on the way back...). He arrived in Bristol safe and sound, but his luggage got left behind in Frankfurt... Just as well they gave him a toothbrush in the plane. He didn't take a spare pair of anythign in his carry on luggage though. So obviously not a girl! So I wandered to my sister's place, we shopped for a dress for my niece, found THREE in the last shop we looked in (typical), then the rain set in. Bored bored bored. I almost finished the baby singled for E's baby - the knitting takes about two hours and the duplicate stitch takes about four. Scuse me, Cheshire is destroying the house by crawling all over stuff, looking for Nath...

G'day all! It is only a week until my last birthday in my *mumbles* before I hit *mumble mumble* Eeek! So remember, the first Saturday after the 3rd of November next year (that is Saturday the fourth of November 2006), BIG partay my place! We should be in our own home by then. YAAAAAAAAAY! Put it in your calendars, save up some $$ or whatever your local currency is and come on down! Coincidentally, today was a workmate's 50th birthday and it would've been the parental 54th wedding anniversary. Tomorrow Nathan goes to Bristol. He has to catch three different planes cos he is going to Singapore then Frankfurt then Bristol. Generally people sit on the one plane on the six hour flight to Singapore and then another 15-16 hours on the long haul to Heathrow. I hope his luggage keeps up with him. By the time he is laden with gifts for people in the UK, he won't have much space for his clothes! Anyway, I will be a mimbulus mimbletonia, or at least I will be mimbling and...