Knitting
On Sunday I had a wonderful day out when 'Mr Bluefaced' aka Andy had an open day at his place of work. 'place of work' just happened to be a gorgoeus farm owned by one of his partners, in the Cheshire countryside. The farm house looked amazing, not that we got to see inside it, The open day was arranged in the stables and courtyard. There was loads of yummy yarn from Andy himself, plus dyed yarns from Jenni at Fyberspates and Amanda at the Natural dye studio. Debbie was there from DT Crafts. I got to meet lots of people from ravellry including Ambermoggie,Laal bear , Cae and Murdoe, Plus I finally got to meet my friend Woolydoodles. we've been chatting on the phone for about 12 months and get on really well. ms Wooly is a lovely friendly person. We'd always planned to meet only living about 1/2 hour away from each other, but it never happened somehow. So i was delighted on Sunday that we finally met and got on like a house on fire as they say. The most exciting thing was I got to try spinning. Cae showed me on her wheel , then mel got her wheel out and I practised on that. Everyone was very generous esp Cae who gave me roving to practise with. Well I took to it like a duck to water. I loved it! It was so soothing.
here is my very first ever hand spun yarn!! it may not look very profesional but who cares. The trouble is I want a wheel now! mel had a louet Julia with a double treadle. I didnt think I could ever work a wheel with my legs, but this was quite easy to use. I went for the next best option and bought a drop spindle-a low one.
When I tried using it at home I promptly forgot what to do!!! so I've been watching videos on U tube and I've ordered some books that were recommended on ravelry.
Norman was obviously with me on the day and looked on in faint amusement at all this 'unravelling' before his eyes! he was looking at me as if to say'Dont you do enough with knitting and dying and running the Etsy shop?
If you want to see piccies of the open day-gorgeous surroundings and a piccie of me spinning go to Ambermoggies Blog. On the knitting front my Ivy front is coming along slowly but surely. I've been in terrible pain recently so havnt beena ble to knit for too long, plus I get side tracked with running my Etsy store, ravelry, chatting on forums and various blogs, plus now spinning!!! I wish I wasnt so tired so I had more hours in my day to fit it all in.
On the Dyeing front I've done some Aran and some Roving for the shop. I ordered a lime green which has turned out a little bit florescent!! but I rather like it
I dyed a yarn what I thought was shades of brown, mustard and orange but the shades didnt show so it looks like a chocolate orange
I enjoye dying the roving and think its come out O.K. I was scared of felting it.
One in the Eye for The 'Dim Witted Pratts'!!!
I had my tribunal on Wednesday for my DLA claim. I was dreading it. In fact Tuesday Night I hardly slept and had palpitations which were horrible. Anyway wednesday morning loomed and we arrived on time. I went in my wheelchair. I've heard loads about how awful these people can be on the tribunal but I have to say mine were O.K. One of them was a bit fierce and really grilled me about what I'm like in the house and kepot picking up on things i'd said and challenging me. But at the end of the day I was honest so I cant lie about anything. its not as if I'm making this all up. They asked me things like if I needed help getting out of bed at night to get to the loo why didnt I have a commode by the bed!!!! PPPLeazzze! How old do they think I am!! If I need help getting in and out of the bath why dont I have a seat in the shower? I answered that one though. I need a bath to help with my pain releif so there MMer!! anyway the upshot of all this was that I got my Higher rate Mobility but remain on Lower rate care. I feel vindicated as I felt as though the DWP (dim witted Pratts) were making me out to be a liar another Andy Pipkin!!! The award is only for 2 years though back dated to Feb. so in 18 months I'll have to go through all this bloody rigmarole again.
I've been in the most waful pain again in my lower back and hips. The G.P gave me some Baclofen to ease the spasms. Its very strong so I only take it at night. The other day the pain was so bad I took 2 Tramadol nd a baclofen on top of my patch. I was out to lunch!!! I felt really sick and was so woozy, but I was scared of sleeping incase I didnt wake up!! I got on the bed at 3pm and got off again at 8pm when my head cleared a bit!!! TeeHee!!
i managed to get into Bury today on my scooter with rachel. I decided I'm in awful pain anyway so I may aswell carry on living as best as I can.
My neighbour lent me along handled grabber which is very handy when I cant bend down. I managed to get the washing in the machine this way!
i am finding it all a bit soul destroying though all this pain and I think Norman is getting fed up too as I'm up in the night taking pain killers and he has to go down and make me a brew abd some cereal to take the tablets with. he hasnt had a good nights sleep for over a week!
Other musings
an entry about books.
I have just read John Fowles The Magus. it was a really good read and threw up all sorts of questions and scenarios which would be really good to discuss in a reading gropu. I also realised again just how awful my brain fog is as I posed questions to myself but found myself unable to think and analyse things too deeply. where as at one time I'd've relished a meaty discusion about the book.
