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Unravelling Wednesday - Week 24

The lockdown is very slowly easing easing. Now we're allowed to go for two hours exercise a day, and sitting in the park counts as exercise.  And I just got back from a run down here (masks are only off because we were running):


So life feels pretty good.

I started a jumper for Leon on Monday. It's just a simple top down raglan, free, from Tin Can Knits. It's got a couple of nice details, and I dyed the yarn myself, so that's always fun.

And I'm reading the first Axis of Time book, by John Birmingham. It's a time travel novel and I don't normally like time travel. If you recall I was listening to his excellent Zero Day Code series. I started reading his blog. I've always had a fondnes for John Birminham, his He Died with A Fallafel in His Hand was one of the seminal books of my youth. So when I discovered he was on Patreon, I decided to follow him there too. But he was near the end of serialising the last Zero Day Code book, and he messaged me (!) to say it wouldn't make sense, did I want a copy of the previous books. When i said "no thanks, I'll wait for the audio book" he sent me Axis of Evil, which he will be writing the sequel to next. So, I've got a LOT of catching up to do. Also, John Birmingham messaged me! 


And that's my week. I hope yours had some good things too. I'm linking up with Kat from As Kat Knits, where we chat about what we are reading and knitting. 


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