December 1st

happy christmas clive andrews!
Originally uploaded by lomokev

Something a little different to start this years advent calender.

Extension

Real life is beating me around the head with a rather large shovel right now.
I'm going to extend the deadline for the competition until next weekend. I just don't have time to deal with the admin right now.
I'm extraordinarily sorry.

If you don't know what I'm on about it's not the previous post, it's the one before, you can win some beautiful handknits.... I'm contemplating entering myself, I need some more Christmas presents!

Happy Birthday p/hop

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p/hop

It's p/hop's birthday, in case you need reminding p/hop is a knitting fundraiser for the charity Medecins sans Frontier or Doctors without Borders
The name p/hop comes from pennies per hour of pleasure, the idea being you donate according to how much pleasure something gives you. There are several free p/hop patterns, but you can also p/hop for yarn, or for anything really.

Along with several others I've been designing a new pattern for p/hop in celebration of p/hop's birthday.
Part of the designing process is to test knit the pattern to make sure it make sense. In the true spirit of p/hop we decided to raffle off the finished items.
Below are the photos of what is available, you can't pick and choose what you win as that will make for craziness! All you need to do to enter is go over to Just giving using the widget to the right, or the US based First giving widget below make a donation of however much you can afford, and leave me a comment below saying you've done it. I won't be checking up on this, that's not how p/hop works, it's all about trust and the feeling of doing the right thing!
The winners will be drawn at random at 7pm GMT on the 30th November.


All the patterns are going to be available to download soon, you can be sure I'll post here to let you know when that is!
Please go and spread the word, it's all for a good cause.


Here's what you can win-
A pair of Intertwined Mittens knitted by me in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino


2 hats from SadieLou These are 2 separate prizes.

A hat from Rlynn

( I don't have a photo but its the same hat as seen above)

A pair of mittens from SadieLou

A pair of socks from LittleMsContrary

A pair of mittens from LittleMsContrary.

A little something to smile about

I was driving to work the other day and the sky was simply spectacular. I did try to snap a picture, and it really doesn't do it justice. Getting out of bed at 6am my be hard work at this time of year may be hard, but getting to see sunrises like this make up for it!


Something else thats made me smile is this song

It's take that at the concert that was recently held at the Royal Albert Hall to raise money for Children in Need

More moving pictures

I just got off the phone with my Mum. they are finally at the point where they've nearly unpacked everything. I'm longing to get down to wales to see the change, and to see the 2 woodpeckers who come and feed on the bird table, but the next few weekends are busy.

A few more moving in and cleaning pictures from last weekend for you, they'll have to do until I can get there myself and capture the beautiful scenery.

Lest we forget

There are a multitude of reasons why I've not posted for a week and a half but today is not the day to go in to them.
We had 2 minutes silence at school today, even my rowdy year 11's fell silent, the boy who sniggered was roundly shouted at by all the others at the end of it.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.