{"id":2393,"date":"2011-08-02T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2011-08-02T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:49:07","slug":"why-does-life-always-get-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Why does life always get in the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had such good intentions….but try as I might, I haven’t got as much done as I’d hoped to over the last day or so. You see, I had visions of a troublefree day just trundling along sewing blocks on the sewing machine. I hadn’t quite taken into account having to do a holiday worth of laundry, going to the supermarket, collecting the cat from the cattery, recycling and just well, the little things involved in living… I also received two papers to edit and correct, which I’m going to have to get done over the next few days and which I had sort of hoped would be delayed, but weren’t. So all in all, I’m not as far as I had hoped to be, but at least some progress is being made in all sorts of directions.<\/p>\n

I finished my Meadowsweet skirt. It looks a bit like a gaudy sack in this photo, but I promise it does look much better on. I just can’t show it to you with me wearing it because there’s nobody here to take the photo. Bumble Bee is a clever cat, but she hasn’t mastered photography yet. I like the skirt, but other than a white T-shirt I have no idea what I can possibly wear it with!<\/p>\n

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I finished knitting the second front of my loud purple Otello cardie and almost finished the first sleeve. Here I was multitasking, because I simultaneously watched Memoirs of a Geisha<\/em>, which has been sitting waiting to be watched for about 5 years….and which I would highly recommend. Can’t think why I never managed to watch it before.<\/p>\n

I’ve been plodding on with my Bliss<\/em> blocks – only six more to go and then I can start putting on the sashing to put them all together. I seriously love this fabric.<\/p>\n

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I also finished reading The Redbreast<\/em> by the Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo – which improved as it went along. \u00a0I have a feeling that Steig Larsson my have been the best thing that ever happened to Scandinavian writers – as they are suddenly being translated into English in great numbers.<\/p>\n

….and I also tadaaaaa spent an hour trying to get the garden back into some semblance of order.<\/p>\n

Written down it looks like I did more than I feel like I did.<\/p>\n

It feels strangely free this week…and I have a clear conscience about enjoying myself as I’ve had a report back from the motorbike gang and the kids and everybody seems to be having a great time….oh and the sun is shining too.<\/p>\n

Life is good!<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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