Category: Life is Good

More lovely rain

So, after yesterday’s post, and responses from Twitter, Facebook and comments here, I can add some other reasons to love the rain:
11. The smells you get after rain. Lots of people mentioned this one, and I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t… especially when I walked through the garden yesterday afternoon and was ambushed by that [...]

Twinkle toes

Following the shawl jag, you’ll remember that I started on some socks.
Well, they’re done.

They’re sparkly and comfy and pretty as anything.

(The pattern is V-Junkie from this book.)
I knitted another sparkly pair, as a present for Scarlet.

(The pattern is Monkey, free here.)
And I’ve just cast these on. Toe-up instead of cuff-down, just for the crazy sock-knitting hell [...]

Ball passing

The blurb about this film on the YouTube site says:
Choreographer Charles Moulton directs his famous work “Precision Ball Passing” on a group of volunteers in Irvine California.
I’m afraid this famous work had entirely passed me by before now. But it’s wonderful. Enjoy.