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Unravelled wednesday - the one with the flying visit.

I'm linking up with Kat for Unravelled Wednesday, as I generally do on a Wednesday. This post is written in a bit of a hurry and (I shamefacedly admit) from work. This is one of those weeks when I am out every night, except Thursday, and on Thursday we have to pack and prepare because we are going away for the upcoming long weekend, including an overnight hike. I am stoked to be getting out into the bush - fire conditions allowing, of course. Tonight we are seeing Amanda Palmer, which I am also stoked about, although the show is 4 hours long. But I am relived because it is called "There will be no intermission, and apparently there is an intermission. I can't imagine sitting for 4 hours.

So, in knitting this week I finished a pair of sneaker liners. I used the Fork In the Road pattern and I love how it looks in self striping yarn. I also took the photos at the gym this morning, in the two minutes I had between taking off my bike shoes and putting on my gym shoes. Never let it be said that I made perfection the enemy of done!
I cast on Elton, which is one of the jumpers the Richmond Knitters chose as our plan to make matching jumpers for Bendigo in July. I only started it yesterday, but so far it's been fun. 

Reading hasn't changed much since last week. I left my beloved Kindle, at work over the weekend, so I read The Gift of Pain instead. It's a fairly interesting memoir about a doctor who worked with leprosy patients in India. It was recommended to me by my councillor, and I couldn't get a electronic copy of it, so I have an actual paper copy. I might take it away this weekend to make some more progress.
I'm also listening to The Widow by Fiona Barton, which was the free Audible bonus last month, and I'm really enjoying it. Its a mystery, with unreliable narration. Right I'll be back on Monday with an update about my weekend and hopefully some lovely photos of Marysville and the surrounds, as well as (hopefully) Elton progress.

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