I'm staying

In my current location that is. After 4 job interviews I was finally successful, next year is going to be a challenge but I'm looking forward to it. It also means I get to stay in the same place as all my friends, and close to my family. Now I just need to find somewhere to live, ideally close to a tram sop as I can actually catch the tram to work! Oh yeah!
Only 2 days until the holidays and as we are currently going through a silly season I'm very grateful. I would rather not stand out in the rain during another prank fire alarm again.

Let's Play

From Meridian Ariel

1. What is your last name? I'm only saying it begins with W!
2. A 4 Letter Word? Wild
3. A Boy’s Name? William
4. A Girl’s name? Wilhemenia (anyone know any more?)
5. An Occupation? Welder
6. A Color? White
7. Something you wear? Waterproofs
8. A Beverage? Wine (ah wine, how I love you!)
9. A Food? White chocolate (lame, I know)
10. Something found in the bathroom? Water
11. A place? Winchester
12. A Reason for being late? World War Three
13. Things you shout? W*@*$er (it popped in to my head, I have no idea why!)

Play along if you like, copy and paste, change your answers and leave me a comment!

Things like this do bad things to a single girl

After all they are just so dinky.... I think I could make this pattern over and over again and it uses up leftover sock yarn. More with what to do with leftover sock yarn coming up in a couple of days......
The link to the pattern is over to he left, in the finished objects slideshow

Sports Award

On Wednesday I wnet to the Sports Award dinner at the university, last year we won team of the year for winning the national university championships. This year we did the same thing and didn't even get a nomination. However we won't go in to that, we had a lovely evening and I may have danced the night away on a school night!

The start of the evening, don't we all look civilized...



The end of the evening.... why yes that is our chairman, and yes him, and most of the other males in the club decided being shirtless was a good idea!

Edit....grrrrr it's chopped half of me off. Why does my blog do this?


PS. If you're not a twitter follower, I had an interview today and didn't get it, let's move on please, it was obviously not meant to be...

Sometimes you can feel justifiably proud in your achievements. I'd like to think this is one of those occasions.
A month and a half after casting on I have this-




I'm wearing it to a posh do tomorrow so will report back with action photos.

(The link to the pattern and full details are available in the side bar to the left)

Good for the soul

The last day has been one of those days that every now and again I need. There is just something so heart warming about watching a group of small children having fun. Fun they wouldn't be having if I wasn't there.
Last night I took 13 5 year old girls away for an overnight stay. We made our own pizza from scratch, made fairy cakes, sang laughed, slept (a little!), and also had fun doing farm jobs. I am now exhausted, I have no idea how people have the energy to become parents, but I had a lovely time.



(Please note I do have permission from parents to take photos, and use them for publicity purposes, I think this counts!)

A proper British pass time

Barbequing in the rain I mean, yes I am off to a barbeque tonight. I'm not quite sure how many clothes to wear. And no I don't mean shorts or trousers, I mean shall I put long johns on under my jeans.... it's not as if anyone would see them....
While I decide I'm deadline knitting on the lace shawl you can see to the left, I have 12 rows left and want to wear it on Wednesday, there may be late nights ahead.