DOES THIS MAKE ME TECHNOLGICALLY ADEPT???

Oh. My. Goodness.

I HAVE A BLOG!!!!!!!!

Ahem......Sorry about that, but I'm quite impressed with myself - I've been reading knitting blogs for ages, and often wondered whether I would ever deign to join the ranks of the wordy-on-the-web, and I finally took the plunge! Now I just have to regularly update....!

Okay then, what to expect on this baby-blog:

- (hopefully) lots of knitting content
- (hopefully) lots of photos of knitting/yarns
- (probably) lots of bragging and mushiness about my lovely lovely greyhound boy, Connor, and my exceptionally beautiful pusscats, Bella and Lucy
- (hopefully not) lots of whining, whingeing and complaining about work (and the fact that I have to go there....!)
- sad, un-funny jokes (in the style of - A parrot was sitting on a perch and said, "Can anyone else smell fish?" - get it??!!!!)
- the occasional rant, I I like to rant...
- lots of exclamation marks!!!! (I'm quite fond of them!!!!)


Here's the historical first photo posting:



Connor is my very special boy - I adopted him from www.greyhoundangels.com nearly a year ago now, after he had been left at the vets by his owner/trainer (? we're not sure who) to be euthanased (he had injured himself, healed over a few months and then decided that he'd rather sleep on a couch than chase a fluffy thing). Melita, the angel who runs this group was only given a few days to find him a family, and I was the lucky one who got to welcome Connor (he had no name that we know of) into my home. Please visit the site and have a look at the beautiful dogs that need someone to love....

Right, onto the knitting content....

My Grandma taught me how to knit when I was little - every now and then I would sleep-over when Grandad went to the masons (oooh, mysterious!). He would get us our 'comforts' (Scottish-speak for chocolate and lollies) before he went, and we would then spend the night knitting, sewing, playing gin rummy and staying up late to watch the late movie. Sometimes she'd let me have a lovely Blackberry Nip with lemonade, in one of her very special wine glasses, and I'd feel all grown-up and special. I would get to sleep in the big waterbed with Grandma, and Grandad was banished to the spare room when he came home! Grandma was a prolific and talented knitter - she used to knit Aran jumpers, all cabled and bobbled and plaited, whilst watching her daily 'stories' - we don't remember ever seeing her use a pattern.....

I didn't knit for a very long time, and took it up again last year when I had an extended time off work on sick leave (more on that another time maybe) and needed a reason to get up everyday. I started by knitting ridiculously silly and simple beanies and scarves for my friends to wear on our annual trip to Rottnest in the winter, and I haven't stopped!! Knitting has become my sanity-saver - to the extent that if I don't have my knitting with me, even at work, I get more than a little antsy!!!

I spend a LOT of time on the internet reading knitting blogs, downloading patterns, buying fancy-pants yarns on-line, and (sometimes) wishing that I lived in the UK or USA, simply because of the beautiful wools available, and because no-one seems to mind if you knit during a meeting (I tried to the other day in a staff meeting, but got the-look-of-the-smacked-bottom from many of my colleagues.... even though every bastard around me was Sudoko-ing..... flippin' double-standards....!) - and I recently got my Ravelry invite (I'm Lushorama there as well), so am slowly adding to my page every day...

Knitting photos:


heheehehee - I need to learn how to add pics better....this hedgehog was knitted for my Aunty Babsie (the one and only!) - I don't think anyone noticed that I knit his back on sideways, or that I may have over-stuffed him....!!!!

Okay then, I think that's it for me for today, I'm going to collect my thoughts, take some pics, and DO SOME KNITTING!!!!!

Thanks for joining me, speak to (at?) you soon!!

Kisses,
Lisa
xxxxx