Watching the Prince & His Songs thing on BBC 4. I had no idea that Muse had covered Sign O' The Times...

Two rather old hand knitted cabled sweaters. The one on the left has multiple cable patterns in a traditional cream coloured yarn, while the one on the right has simple braided cables in cream yarn with brown nepps

Some properly vintage cable knits for #ShowMeYourKnits - I'm afraid I don't have pattern or yarn details (beyond bog-standard acrylic/wool blend aran weight) as the one on the left is at least 30 years old, and the other not much newer.

So is this a positive omen for my upcoming move, do you think? Though I'm a bit worried about those birds...

Two faceted glass solar powered lights rest on the top of a round table in the dark. The light shining through the facets creates many-petalled flowers of light on the table top.

The photo isn't great as I was leaning out of the bedroom window to take it, but I love the leafy patterns my new solar powered lights cast on the table...

Same. I was fully prepared to dislike her, but she absolutely won me over.

That was a belter of a first episode of #Taskmaster

I adore every single one of them so far.

Because the same people decide what success looks like. If the success of a CEO (for example) was measured by something more beneficial than maximising shareholder revenue, I reckon the world would look very different.

The front (lighter) side of the beginning of a brioche knit shawl in golden mohair/silk and purple BFL/silk yarns.

The back (darker) side of the beginning of a brioche knit shawl in golden mohair/silk and purple BFL/silk yarns.

The feeling at the start of a new knitting project when it stops being fiddly and awkward and the pattern starts to emerge...

Pattern: Meg March Shawl by Kath Andrews
Yarn: Posh Yarn Gina Lace and Gretchen Heavy Lace

#Knitting
#BriocheKnitting

A fourth Doctor build a bear wearing a large pair of glasses

I have a tendency to put my glasses down and then forget where I put them, so I've come up with a solution...

A middle aged white woman wearing crocheted wisteria on her head

What do you think of the new hairdo?

(It's a hideous photo, but it did make me giggle...)

A tumbled pile of crochet wisteria garland lies on a light green table alongside a hand made coffee mug. In the foreground is a flower spike in progress, and behind are trees and blue sky with a stone wall partly covered in ivy on the right hand side

Not a bad way to spend an hour or so on a sunny Thursday...

#Crochet #CraftSky

A crochet wisteria garland with bright green leaves and flowers in various shades of blue hangs from black metal railings in the sunshine. Behind the trees are just coming into bud, and the sky is blue with a few small white clouds.

This week I have been mostly crocheting wisteria... 🧶

I'm using the free pattern available here: www.onceuponacheerio.com/2026/05/croc...

If all goes to plan tomorrow will be exchange of contracts and house deposit day, and I'll be back in my home town at the end of this month (or the beginning of next). To say that I am a ball of anxiety is possibly an understatement, but I keep telling myself it will all be worth it...

Myths & Legends Postcards A set of eight postcards featuring reproductions of the Myths and Legends stamps.

How about a set of postcards?

Myths & Legends Postcards | Royal Mail share.google/uMPfLdXIzzn4...

One of my reasons for moving is that I'll be somewhere flat so I can easily walk everywhere. I'm sick of living on a ruddy great hill where having a car is pretty much a necessity (the bus service is much better than it used to be, but that was a pretty low bar...)

Thank you ❤️

I think I'm annoyed as much as I'm upset by it these days. At least this time it's just a plot point and not the focus of the story.

Oh, yay. Aggressive brain tumour as a bloody plot point yet a-bloody-gain. Serves me right for going in un-spoilered I guess...

Not sure what my favourite pattern I'd pick either, but an Anne-Lise Maigaard pattern would likely be it. She's probably the only designer where I'm happy to pay for a mystery KAL sight unseen.

Pattern: SugarPlumFairy by Andrea Jurgrau

Yarn: my own hand spun from 100% Polwarth dyed by Posh Yarn

The lower edge of a hand knitted lace shawl, showing a bind off in progress. The needle holding the live stitches is at the lower left of the picture, with the bound off edge going up towards the top right corner.

At times it felt like this shawl was never going to end, but I'm finally casting off!

Of course I've realised that my blocking pins are already packed away, so I will either have to go fossicking in the room full of packed boxes or leave it until after the move...

I'd spun on and off using drop spindles then moving on to a wheel, but getting myself an electric spinning wheel back in 2020 was a game changer.

A hand knitted lace shawl in progress. It's being knitted in hand spun 3ply lace weight yarn in shades of blue, purple, green and grey. Just above the needles at the top of the photo is what is left of the first skein - there is really not very much of it

Just as well I wound the second skein of this hand spun yarn yesterday - 12 (600+ stitch) rows to go and the first skein has almost run out. 🧶

How the heck do I avoid the cat driving me completely doolally? Physically he's fine, just a bit of arthritis that he's on meds for, but feline dementia means that he shouts All The Freaking Time. Seriously considering noise cancelling headphones at this point...

Thank you Morning Me for changing the bedding. Evening Me very much appreciates fresh clean sheets.

It's a massive achievement as far as I'm concerned. When I got dry eyes from working on the computer all the time I had to get the eye mist stuff because I just couldn't manage to give myself eye drops.

Today must be a day for vet appointments!

Hopefully Rosie's appointment will be as straightforward as Hector's was, though perhaps without the shouting all the way there and back home...

Soon I have to go and wake the cat up so I can take him for his monthly arthritis jab, so I'm making the most of it.

In the foreground, a mug of coffee rests on a green table. Behind it is a balcony with wooden decking and black metal railings, followed by trees and fields. In the background stone built houses stand on the crest of a hill, below a bright blue sky.

Screenshot from the Merlot app, showing the bird species detected from the location in the previous photo: Great tit, common chaffinch, goldcrest, house sparrow, dunnock, long-tailed tit, Eurasian blue tit, coal tit, common magpie, Eurasian treecreeper and Eurasian wren.

A beautiful sunshine-y day, and warm enough to sit out on my suntrap of a balcony with a cuppa, listening to the serenade.

(At least until the denizens of the dog park down the road decided to make their contribution...)

So you might possibly, once a decade or so, attend a vigil for the trans people who end up victims of labour's policies? Not sure that this is the win you think it is...

I'm home, I've had a cuppa and cuddled the cat. Time for a nap.