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Unravelled Wednesday - we're out!

 After 29 weeks of lockdown (with about three weeks in June off) we have now officially not in lockdown. Even though it makes little difference to me yet, it's just the relief. It was a long journey, but we had zero cases on Monday and Tuesday and only 2 today (from a known source) so hopefully it worked.  Shops are open. 105 days without shops was weird and the postal system is rather overwhelmed so everything is talking three weeks to get here. We still have 25km travel limits, and I think I'll be working from home for a while yet but I can get my nails done! Oh the excitement.

It was a pretty solid week in reading and knitting too. I made good progress on my socks (or Leon's socks I should say): 

I'll get them finished today - one of the great joys of working from home is being able to knit out of sight during meetings.

The Westknits Slipstravaganza clue was a quick on this week, and I was finished on Sunday night. Little checks followed by adorable triangles. So fun.

You can't see it too well because it's all scrunched up on the needles. For looking at others, it is quite large, and I'm going to make mine as large as possible. HUGE.

I read Passing by Nella Larson. I picked it up because someone - I think someone from Unravelled Wednesday - recommended it as a "own voices" book. A slim volume that really packs a punch.Well worth reading.

Now I'm reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. It's a story of a painfully awkward uni student, her best friend and some (not very) romantic entanglements, but it's so much more. Class, gender, usefulness, friendship are all in the mix. And it's so well written that I can ignore the complete lack of quotation marks. That's how good this is. 

As usual on a Wednesday I'm linking up with Kat from As Kat Knits. Thanks for hosting Kat.




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  1. steph29 October, 2020

    congrats on living somewhere where people are obviously thinking of others and staying safe....our county just jumped into the red zone again. blah.

    Love the socks and shawl!!!!

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    1. Sharondoubleknit29 October, 2020

      It was a hard time though. I never realised the IDEA of being able to go to the shops was so powerful!

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