WOYWW #590: Dragons and patterns

Hi all, here we are again on What’s on your workdesk Wednesday, inviting each other to take a peek at what we’re up to. If you’d like to join in, head over to The Stamping Ground, where Julia kindly hosts our weekly blog. 

My “desk” is on my shelves next to my chair, so not much changes there. 

Thanks for all the blogger tips last week. I've one for you - move the text by cutting / pasting instead of trying to move the photo. Much less frustrating.

Anyway, I’ll start with a question for you:

Mystery item 

Do you know what this is? Now I’ll have none of that Granny Ogg “Ooh er missus” smut from you LLJ 😀, but if anyone can tell me what it is, (name & function) I’ll draw the winner's name out of the hat and send you a mask adapter, just for fun. 

Answer next week.

 

Pattern

Now, I have to confess I’ve fallen in love with a new pattern. It’s a crochet along announced on Facebook, and I am totally smitten. It’s in Sheepjes Whirl, in a very hard to find shade, so I’ve searched all over, and finally had to order it from Denmark. In general, I'll happily use different colours, but the one in the pattern is called Blackberry Mint Chip, and I HAVE to have it. It swirls so beautifully from purple to teal and olive. The CAL doesn’t start till Friday, but I’m itching to start. The idea of a CAL is a bit frustrating, as the designer will release the pattern piecemeal. But just look! I'm hoping to make a cardigan from it.

I'm still doing my Persian Tiles, and am now on the diamonds that fit between the octagons.

Family

A busy week for us. Sadly, my uncle died recently, after a long illness, and I “attended” his funeral in Stoke by video link. It broke my heart to tell my aunt that I wouldn’t be there for her (they’ve been married for nearly 60 years), but Covid cases are about 8 times the rate in Stoke that they are down here, and I'm no less vulnerable now than when I was officially  shielding. She said she'd hate for me to come and then catch it so, video link it was. One-way, unfortunately, they couldn’t see us giving them a virtual hug, so we did that by phone after. The link is on a timer so we missed the end, as it cut off, but never mind. 

My better half has now been diagnosed with a severe cataract and so I'm driving him to hospital. I've been signed off though - no more laser treatment, yay!

Dino doesn't seem much better., but he's eating more. He has some more antibiotics and a decongestant powder from the vets so we'll see how that goes. He is terrified of going to the vets, hyperventilates and shakes, poor lamb, so I don't want to add that to his troubles unless he gets worse. This is Dino sleeping diagonally across the bed. No chance for a nap, Lynne! Brian keeps trying to teach Dino Welsh - he claims Dino is already half way there, given his catarrh....."Say, "Aberdaugleddau" Dino!"

Dino and Thea send a miaow to all your cats, or at the most, "Bore da cath fawr!! 

Dragons

Yes, I've really been seeing them this week! You don't expect to encounter dragons on the country road outside the village, but there you go. It's enormous!

This one is papier maché and was made by our village's Ladies' Craft Circle. I must find out about them now I've retired. Brian wonders if they’d  do a red one for the 6 nations rugby.  

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I'm  not sure how well this video will work, but here's one of them flying around: a dragonfly that has visited our garden twice this week - such a blessing! My photo attempts were useless, they fly so fast.

Rant

I have been furious this week with the attitude of people like the musician, Van  Morrison, whose music I have loved for many years. He has released a song about how lockdowns are an infringement of his civil liberties. At hospital appointments I have also seen more people half -wearing masks, so I had a proper rant to myself in a sort of poem/curse. Not everyone wants to see such things, so the link is here. It's called Fair warning

Walk

One of the things I promised myself to do once I retired, was to go for walks along Prince's Parade, with my friend, Chris.

Prince's Parade is a gorgeous area, around the Royal Military canal, which was built during the Napoleonic wars. Our horrible council is planning to build all along it so it's really under threat. It's been to court and we lost the judicial review, so I'm not sure what happens next. If anyone has any great crested newts to spare....:)

It's a lovely walk anyway. Often there are swans but today there were canoeists.

Have a happy and safe week, everyone, and thanks for visiting. I'd love it if you have time to leave a comment, thanks