My fun day

Here in London the weather is cold, wet and overall horrible. With that in mind it seemed like a good day to stay home and have a little fun. The fun started early. On a work day I get up at 5:45 and plan to leave home at 6:30. The best bit of the morning is the first cup of tea of the day and I need time to savour it. Today I had extra time in bed and Twiglet came and snuggled down on the duvet next to me. It meant I was very warm as he is a small but efficient generator of heat. I eventually felt too warm at about 8a.m. so made a start on the day. I had several things I wanted to do. First up was some cooking. I had three bananas at the perfect ripeness for making banana bread. When that was put in the oven I started on some millionaire shortbread. Twiglet and Missy hung around in the kitchen in the hope of me dropping something but they were out of luck. 

Next up was a rest with more tea and my knitting. I started my pink cardigan as it is my project to work on this month for the Chookshed Challenge. I love the yarn I'm using, it's so soft and silky. which is not surprising since it's 70% wool, 15% alpaca and 15% silk. It feels really nice on your fingers when knitting. This is how far I've got in week 1 of February.

This afternoon I drew out all the embroidery blocks for the Frog quilt. I have finished one small embroidery and these are the other two small ones. All the other embroideries are much bigger.

Tomorrow John and I are going on a bird watching trip to Norfolk. The journey should take about 3 hours so I'm hoping to get quite a bit of stitching done on the coach. I need to make sure I take enough floss with me and a spare needle. I'm stitching the pattern with three strands of thread.

This evening John and I went out to dinner. The food was very tasty and had the added bonus that someone else was doing the cooking and we had no tidying up to do afterwards. I didn't take any photos in the restaurant.

Before I go to bed I need to check my camera battery is full recharged and find where I've put my binoculars. We're hoping to see quite a few raptors such as marsh harriers, hen harriers, sparrow hawk and merlin. I also need to remember that tomorrow is due to be cold so I'll need lots of layers to stay warm , especially as we will be near the sea.

Take care

Lyndsey