Remembering.

Life's irritation number 11

Don't you just hate it when you forget small things?

I've had a lot on my mind lately and I know I shouldn't complain as we are having a good summer for once, but hot weather does seem to suck the concentration out of my brain. I have been very distracted in the last few weeks and haven't even kept up with reading the other blogs that I follow.

My day job has been occupying my thoughts a lot over the last few months and that doesn't look as if it will be any different in the coming months either.

I have also been involved in a couple of things which will be covered in future blog posts when I can get my head in gear to write them. I already have a number of drafts started and I really will try to post more regularly in the future!

Here in the UK, we are collectively remembering, during this year and particularly this week, the start of the First World War. The Great War, the war to end all war as H G Wells put it, started 100 years ago and events of commemoration are happening across the country. Friends are remembering and sharing family memories in person and on social media.

This week has been more poignant for me personally as a dear friend who has, with great courage and very little complaining, been bravely fighting the battle with cancer for the last seven years finally lost the war. So you see, I have been doing some remembering of my own.

And what's on my needles right now?

Well, there have been a number of things on my needles since my last blog post (it has been that long!). 

• I have knitted 58 days of my Knit a Year, which is 16% of my whole year.
• I have turned 5 heels! (More about that in my next post)
• I have knitted a birthday present for a friend.
• I have knitted Blackcurrant Swirl from Lets Knit August Magazine, which I still need to block and will post a photo in a later blog.

With all this activity it is easy to think that I have no UFO's (unfinished objects) but that would be wrong I have UFO's that are now vintage! I also haven't finished my experiment, my Waterlily has no yoke and my upside down Riverside sock has lain untouched for weeks.

So the photo is of the Lacy Linen Snood  that I knitted for my friend's birthday, it is in her favourite colour and was very well received. Knitting it proved to be a great antidote to the drab colour I had been knitting for weeks before I started it but more about that in the next post!