This week brings me some great projects and a lot of gratitude. We are finishing week three of an (allegedly) six week stay at home order, and masks are now mandatory when out of the house. (As an aside, the poor tradies on my building have to wear masks, and they are. I cannot imagine doing physical labour in a mask). It's cold and grey and winter. But the upside is, I don't have time to be bored, I have time consuming hobbies. I'm not going to run out of yoga to do, or yarn to dye or books to read or projects to knit. And it's been a good week in both knitting and reading.
I started a jumper for Leon on Saturday, and I'm up to the joining the sleeves bit. 5mm needles for the win! The yarn is lush, a merino alpaca blend I bought at the Great Ocean Road Woolen Mill in that brief time we were allowed out. It's thick and warm and delicious.
I'm listening to Poorna Bell's Chase the Rainbow. It's the memoir of her life with a clinically depressed, drug addicted and ultimately suicidal husband. These are not spoilers, it's on the back of the book! I follow Poorna on Instagram and admire her, she is power lifter and calls out discrimination and bullshit where she sees it. The problem with this book is that she keeps on talking about her love for Rob as a "big love", but as the reader I see it as very ordinary. He brought her flowers and they laughed a lot - but he lied to her for their entire marriage, and was unreliable and supportive which seems to me to undermine everything. Part of her point is "that was the addiction, not Rob" but how do you separate someone form their behaviour?
I'm reading Network Effect which is the first MurderBot novel, after for novellas. It's very good. I criticised the novellas for being a lot of shooting and running. this has that, but so much more. The Review Kate on Goodreads put it very well "In which Murderbot is cranky about having feelings and friends, and acquires more of both. I loved it."
And that's another week at home, knitting and reading. I'm joining in with Kat and and Unravellers, over at As Kat Knits.
I started a jumper for Leon on Saturday, and I'm up to the joining the sleeves bit. 5mm needles for the win! The yarn is lush, a merino alpaca blend I bought at the Great Ocean Road Woolen Mill in that brief time we were allowed out. It's thick and warm and delicious.
I'm listening to Poorna Bell's Chase the Rainbow. It's the memoir of her life with a clinically depressed, drug addicted and ultimately suicidal husband. These are not spoilers, it's on the back of the book! I follow Poorna on Instagram and admire her, she is power lifter and calls out discrimination and bullshit where she sees it. The problem with this book is that she keeps on talking about her love for Rob as a "big love", but as the reader I see it as very ordinary. He brought her flowers and they laughed a lot - but he lied to her for their entire marriage, and was unreliable and supportive which seems to me to undermine everything. Part of her point is "that was the addiction, not Rob" but how do you separate someone form their behaviour?
I'm reading Network Effect which is the first MurderBot novel, after for novellas. It's very good. I criticised the novellas for being a lot of shooting and running. this has that, but so much more. The Review Kate on Goodreads put it very well "In which Murderbot is cranky about having feelings and friends, and acquires more of both. I loved it."
And that's another week at home, knitting and reading. I'm joining in with Kat and and Unravellers, over at As Kat Knits.
Bottom up sweaters always make me nervous. I have on,y knit two but I worried about fit the whole way. Thanks for the book ideas.
ReplyDeleteI find I have more trouble with top down! But then I also like my socks cuff down, so everyone has their preferences!
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