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Sorry guys for the long gap between postings.

You all knew I was heading out of town to armidale but that I was due back on the 17^th, the 17^th became the night of the 22^nd so  next day I had a child back to school & the a day off & more back on & getting settled back in again & it’s been a shemozzle.

Among other things I’m tempted to move my stock from my stock room into the sewing room & then moving the sewing table out there so I can hide all my boxes while having a bright work space & not walking through clutter 10 times a day whenever I need something in the bathroom, I’m still contemplating anyway I hate moving furniture or rooms or house, I just hate change & moving.

So since getting home the only dye jobs I’ve done were 600 grams of 12 ply yarn for a jumper I cast on day before yesterday which I will post about tomorrow with pretty pics & all, I have also cast on a pair of socks, I have never knitted a full sock before & hope I have found a good pattern I don’t tend to learn well from written instructions so really it is odd that I have knitting as a hobby.

Hope to be with you in the next few days  with knitting & pictures and before long with new dye jobs.

doctors advice.

I have always sat at such a weight as that I teeter on the border of overweight 58 kilos on a not tiny frame at under 5 foot 3, between october 2010 & october 2011 I went from 62 kilos to 79 & have from october till april  returned to 68 kilos with a waist of 77cm.
I can't help but be offended that my doctor feels I will not be healthy till I reach 52 kilos a weight I have not held since age 12 particularly given that friends & family have been on occasion worried for me when I dipped below 56, I am frankly tire of this stupid weight issue, I am tired of my body being criticized by  doctors the media & those around me.
I am offended by the assumption that I am a crap eating layabout & threatened with diabetes & the like.

I am shooting for a muscular 56-58 kilos with a waist of under 72cm & that shall be it, fuck doctors & fuck anyone with a an issue about it.

finally the garden yields

The soil in the subdivided block I live on is very poor, as in fed it multiple rounds of greenn manures & sprinklings of blood & bone & charlie carp & it didn't do much to help, all crop withered & curled except the pumpkins & zuchs, didn't see anything from most of the zuchs & the pumpkins keep  getting ruined by neighbour the crazy but two days back trystan found that the trombonicio had actually produced 3 fruits a few hundred grams each, we had them in dinner & I'm half considering doing some last minute baking with them & my last bit of pumpkin for road snacks.

It has been hard for my mental state not to have a decent area of garden over the last few years I have sought sanity among my green friends & the benefit of not having to buy my carrots or pumpkin or whatever for months at a time was just the icing on the cake.

I'm hoping that my next rental will have the space to wander among green beds & let me half peace in watering & checking my plants & relocating the critters I may not want never mind that the digging strengthens my core & arms so my pain is barely a concern to me.

Of to see family last fibre for a week.

I'm off to see family, let my son see his dad & generally be social myself as well as trying to get my driving permit, wish me luck.

fibre to be listed this week

last of the corriedale

last of the shetland silk

& a kilo of BFL

Busy = big gaps

I have been crazy busy planning my trip to armidale, trying to get confident driving & dying up fibre 7 then being a bum & not listing it as I should & now todays photos are gone from my camera 9 of them at least which is quite annoying.

heres what I have

Shetland & silk minus 3 braids I was trying to use the natural greys as accent

bamboo & merino

soybean & merino

Polwarth

Corriedale this is what I lost 3 colours worth of pics from