Weekending - running and knitting

We had a reasonably quiet weekend - the last quiet one for a little while, and made the most of it. I mentioned the other day that KOGO had asked for knits in the colours of the Indigenous flag, which is red, yellow and black. Since I had received 160 grams of these colours from Suzanne just the other day I got busy. I finished a hat on Friday and on Saturday I finished a pair of Martina Behm's Tough and Toasty mitts. I love these knits, they are my favourite to make and are surprisingly warm.

On Sunday we went for a run - an hour and a half down the main Yarra Trail, ending up at Dights Falls.

There were many highlights, including lots of lovely dogs and feeling really good on the run, but the main highlight was this fellow:

I'm not sure what kind of lizard s/he is - maybe a blue tongue, but what a treat to see one so close to the city.

And then I got to run through Collingwood Children's Farm, where some very pampered sheep live.

Leon ran back to me (he runs faster than me, so we had done the warm-up together and then run the rest separately) and then we went to a brewery for lunch.

Actually another highlight was getting to have desert - I always joke that Leon doesn't let me have desert, but the truth is that I'm normally full by the end of the meal. These were delicious.

The rest of Sunday involved going home and showering, and finishing on my second set of mitts. A satisfying weekend all round.

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