Scavenger Hunt February

Scavenger Hunt February

I've struggled a bit this month, because I've been a bit out of action but here goes.

Empty

No more Christmas Sweeties.

 5 

Miniature Narcissi 

 Black and White.

Mr Clicky Needles' and my cars.  (I get the big one ~ hehe!)

 Leap Year.

I wish I had a workroom that looked like this.

 In the Sky.

No clouds and one plane.

 Music

I know Chris Moyles is a marmite thing, but he wakes me up and makes me laugh. 

 Train.

Sadly not seen much action lately.

 Cupid

Couldn't find any arrows!!!

 Love

I love this felt bead necklace.

 Crowded

Can't get many more needles and hooks in there.

Heritage

My Mum's Cluedo set from the late 1940s early 1950s.  My DS and his cousin were playing with it at half term.  

Food

Spotty Fairy Cakes

Righto I'm off to check out everybody else's offerings.

February Mosaic

Nothing much woolly in this one!

Better!

Hello Folks!

As you may have guessed from my lack of posting, A Bit Under The Weather went to feeling pretty ill.

I went into work for an hour on Monday and decided it was a bad idea.  The children were their usual lovely entertaining selves but I couldn't cope with them.  So home it was and more sleeping.

I'm better now but not still not back to normal.  (I look forward to the day when I'm normal!)

I'm hoping to get back to work next week, I've missed half of February!

The weather has got warmer so I ventured into the garden and found some plants in bloom.

Some Narcissi 

 and a beautiful spotty Hellebore from my lovely friend Romain which she gave me in the Autumn.  I have lots and lots of Hellebores, but this is my first spotty one.  Just beautiful.  Thanks again Romain!

 I've been playing Scrabble on the iPad with Mr Clicky Needles, this cracking score sadly wasn't mine, but his.

 101. Huh! How annoying.  

Needless to say he won that game.

Well, I'll say goodbye for now, my next post should be a

 ta-dah!

Have a good weekend.......Clicky Needles.

Under the Weather and Under the Blanket

Hello.

I've been a bit under the weather this week.  A headache and not much energy.  I've not been to work and spent most of my time under my nearly finished blanket.

Sometimes a bit of hooky but most of the time dozing.

DS joined me at one point too.

This is of course the back.  I'm not showing you the front until it is all done.  I can't wait to show it to you.

I've lots of reading blogs to catch up on and I'll do a 'proper' post on Sunday.

Have fun.

Bye for now...............Clicky Needles.

Spots and Stripes

Hello All!

Half term has arrived and time for a rest.

My DS and DD had an inset on Friday so we all had a nice lie-in.

Just as well because on Thursday night it was doing this.

Mr Clicky Needles took the 4 wheel drive to work and left his car.

As you can see, it wasn't actually that bad.

It was however, very icy and that evening the temperature was dropping to -4 degrees according to DS' weather station.

It's warming up now though, with drip, drip, dripping of melting snow.

Speaking of dripping I have a story to tell.

About 6 months ago the kitchen tap started to drip, it was a bit annoying.  We took ourselves down to the local DIY store.  

We got a washer. Easy. 

 We tried to change the washer. 

Not easy.

Gave up for a bit.

Dripping got worse.

Tried again, still no joy.  

We had by now, laid on the floor with heads in the unit, cursed the small space and decided plumbing is rubbish.

 The tap was now unscrewed and it hung in a strange manner out of the hole in the sink.

Oh well, at least we could still use it.

Tried again.

Nope.

Considered a calling a plumber.

Decided to give up on the washer and get a whole new tap.

Tried to remove 'push-to-fit' fixings.

Nothing.

Swore.  Still didn't work.

Oh well, at least it still works.

Yesterday Mr CN decided we WOULD do it.

Lay on floor head under sink.

Cursed plumbing and small spaces.

He pulled I pushed, I pulled he pushed.......and eventually it came off.

Waaayyyyy!

And so I would like to present our new working tap 

WITH NO DRIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I was so happy I decided to run down the street naked, stopped only by the look of sheer horror on DS' face.

And now onto stripes.  With the chilly weather this week the staff at school have been wearing extra wooly things.

I had my camera so I went snapping.

They didn't mind, they know of my wooly idiosyncrasies.

And the spots? a new teapot I got from Amazon.  It goes very nicely with a spotty mug.

My blanket crocheting together is going well.  As I suspected Mr CN and the Dyson didn't like squares everywhere, so I struck upon this idea.  I laid them all out and then threaded the squares on a bit of yarn through the centre hole. When I need the next I just slip it off. 
 Nearly a Ta-Dah!

 Lastly some lovely Drops Nepal a soft Alpaca/Wool mix.  This is part of my Christmas Present from Mr CN but it had been out of stock.  I do have a pattern in mind but I'm going to keep you on tenterhooks.
 I will get the blanket finished first. 

A long post today, sorry for that.

Hope it's getting warmer where you are (if you need it!)

As always have fun.....................................Clicky Needles.

Squares Finished!

Hi there!

Thanks for your lovely comments about the Scavenger Hunt, it's been great fun trying to interpret the things.  I've also found some great new blogs too.

I see I've got up to 70 followers which is fantastic!  

Thanks to everyone for popping in.

Well, that snow that I was hoping for last week didn't come although school was shut on Monday!  There was a power failure and it was dark and absolutely freezing, so I did have a peaceful day all by myself, pottering around the house doing things.

On Friday I took the yarn I dyed into Miju Wools in Gloucester.

My bagful of sock yarn.

75% Blue Faced Leicester and 25% Nylon.

Some squishy soft laceweight.

Extra Fine Merino 70% and 30% Silk.

 It was bitterly cold in Gloucester, as in the whole of the UK.   We had snow yesterday afternoon and evening.  DS played outside, but me and Mr Clicky Needles got tucked up in front of the fire and watched the Rugby Internationals.  I sewed in some ends at the same time.

Much better!

No sign of the snow now though, it came and went.

I am very pleased to announce that I have finished all of the squares for my Summer Granny.

Waaaayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

 I've decided to join the squares by crocheting through the back loop.  Good Attic 24 tutorial here.

It's surprisingly difficult to not get similar colours next to each other whilst joining and I need all the squares laid out to make it easier.  I'll have to put the squares away though as I suspect that Mr CN and the Dyson will find the living floor covered in squares all week annoying.

So that's about it for this week.

As always have fun....................Clicky Needles.

January Mosaic

January Mosaic

A distinct orangey theme.