Confession #1

Some socks will be knitted.

My little haul of sock yarn should be warming our tootsies soon. Clockwise, starting with two balls (colours 66 and 76) of Trekking XXL for Mark, "Soxie" Adirondack sock yarn in Bahama colour, my favourite pink and green "rhubarb" ArtYarn (Colour 105), and finally, some more Koigu for another pair of Stranded socks. This last one is rather brighter in real life than it appears here - the sunshine through the roof of the garden room did funny things to that one in particular. 

several hours later....

Well, the two or three hour delay to our flight soon became more serious as, although the plane was there, nothing appeared to be happening. All other flights had left and there were just the London passengers left. We began to suspect that something was amiss and would have made enquiries, had there been anyone around to answer them. When a uniformed member of Virgin staff appeared, she was mobbed and as the crowd began to move out of the departure lounge and back towards the check in area, we knew something was up and joined the stampede.

It seemed that, although our plane was there and ready, there was no-one available to fly it.

This is where we found ourselves somewhere around midnight - the airport hotel!

This was the reassuring view from our window - one solitary Virgin 747 remaining.









We eventually took off some 15 hours late and were thankful for a smooth and uneventful flight, arriving home just after 1am this morning.

Shopping confessions follow later.

Great exhibition

Spent this morning at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where we headed to see the exhibition "Americans in Paris". Super exhibition, well worth the visit and enjoyed by us both.

Now sitting at Boston, Logan airport awaiting our flight home, which is delayed by two hours. Ugh. It's hot, sticky and noisy. But, in the spirit of Pollyanna (whose author lived in Littleton, where we admired a small bronze outside the town library last week) I'm glad I could keep my lipstick with me as it seems as though lipsticks are exempt from the strict "no gels, liquids etc" rules. We may be hot, sweaty and grubby - but lips will be slick and pink! 

New Hampshire Choices

 

I know, I know....

What did I say? Enough yarn already? Quite, but I didn't say anything about needles...

Whilst somewhere-or-other last week, I bought a copy of Cat Bordhi's Magical knitting book. Only realised too late that it requires exceptionally long needles - 60" recommended. Everywhere I've asked, I've drawn a blank, and I thought that I would be mail-ordering from home. Still, walking past Newbury Yarns today, I thought it worth asking. Bingo. Bought two 60" Addis, a 3.5mm and an 8mm. Oh, and a skein of Mountain Colors Mountain Goat yarn in "meadow" decided that it needed a good home, too.

Homeward bound this time tomorrow. Perhaps it's just as well!