Birthday delights

An absolute corker of a cake made by the creative duo Tim and Natasha. This modular synth cake made Leigh's night!


And a birthday gift of antique barometer to monitor the weather and atmospheric pressure.

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Land to water

We have our hands upon a lovely little white van and I have taken on the persona of van driver rather well. This has been day three of shifting stuff and both Leigh and I are feeling the pull on our bodies. We are half way there having moved the boat to a better position so we can pull up the van next to the hatch on the boat.


We have cleared all the odds and ends from the boat (just the last bits in the galley area to do) and already it is begining to look like home!


It's Leigh's Birthday on Tuesday so tomorrow should be another trip to the tip and then party time begins, that is until Wednesday when it'll more than likely be back to the van for the big stuff (bed, sofa) and the ends of the kitchen bits, clothes, some garden pots, oh and Delia!

All this hard work today, Leigh made me finally sit down out on the stern and what a perfect time as the sun was settling down.

Crocuses a-coming out

I looked from the window of the flat only to see shades of violet and white litter the grass in our garden. Could it be? Ah the Crocuses have come out for their annual peek-a-boo!




and of course, the big move continues....

Delay through the door

Looky what came through the post! For my musical antics in Bitumen (the band) I have decided to build my own delay pedal. So I went for this one from Build Your Own Clone. It looks pretty fiddly but after the Nocto Loco and the Phantastron, I'm up for the challenge. All I need now is some more free time to get this made...

Knitty Bitty

After a while away from the needles I decided I would have a look for a good start up book on knitting. Leigh's mum had lent me one previously which allowed me to learn the basics, casting on, binding off, knit, purl, patterns, and cabling, but without this aid I was a little lost as to how to even begin. Watersotnes had a good collection and so I went for one entitled "Knitting in no time" by Melody Griffiths. It has a section at the back dedicated to the above basics with good illustrations and this was a great reminder.

The book has 50 quick-ish projects, some are ghastly, some are great, to get the clickty-clacks going again it is absolutly fine overall. Pictured above is my first creation from the book. A knitted mini-bag from left overs. I realised that I had cut the handle 1 mtr too short after I made it and Leigh suggested it would make a fine clutch bag for my little niece (aged 5) who dresses like she is in the pink army. I do agree.

Well, with the movement of knitting again back at my finger-tips the next project begins with a skinny scarf from Monday's wool, Debbie Bliss's Baby cashmerino in a lovely orange.