holey scarf

Having fun making the Swiss Cheese scarf






and reading Fauna by Alissa York, 2011 about a likeable crew of characters and animals living alternate lives in the Don Valley in Toronto. Not plot driven, but a good book. Has a half-newfie in it so of course I like it.

Test

Can I blog from my iPad?

scarf, hat and books

Family Album by Penelope Lively, 2009. Bit too close to home, re: messed up family. An uncomfortable read but it's a good book.

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis, 2011. Very interesting book, just started it and it's going to be a long listen, but it's a good story and he tells it well.

Sheepy Haty

Different lines

baby sweater

2 books

Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James, 2011. PD combines Jane Austen with a mystery, and it's very well done. It feels like the same characters. Started reading it but am now listening to it and think I like it better that way. Nealy finished and am wishing there would be more books to follow.



Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre, 2011. Interesting book, her story is a first hand account of living as a revolutionary while growing up and it's a good story. Not that well written but worth reading.

a long long book

Oh my, 1Q84 by Haruki Muakami, 2011, is long. I listened to it and it seemed to go on forever. I couldn't stop listening to it or skip parts, even though is slow and repetitive, sort of chant-like. It's not a great book, but it does hang on to you and won't let you go. I'm just glad it's over.

Started Sebastian Barry's earlier book, Annie Dunne, 2003 and it is such a relief to be reading such good writing.

Read earlier this year but did not note, On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry, 2011. Really liked it. A sad tale but he writes so well. I read the Secret Scripture, 2009, a couple of years ago and liked it as well. I like the way her writes about women, old women.

And on the mystery side, I am really enjoying A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths, 2012

knitting - 2 hitch hikers

Love knitting the hitchhiker pattern by Martina
Behn and want to make another one.














































Socks for brother in law.

Started a sweater, Kate Davies pattern;; Boreal, beautiful wool/ alpace mix.









Second try at making a glove.
First was too big, this one is too small and I have to undo it and start again.