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Unravelling Wednesday - Week 29

 We're in week 29 of working from home. After 100 days of lockdown, curfew and travel restrictions we are now allowed 25kms from home and hairdressers are open. No shops, just hairdressers! I really want to get my nails done, I guess that will happen in about ten days. Exciting. 

As I say every week, being at home more has given me even more time to knit and read (and run and learn handstands). 

This week I am knitting TWO things. My second pair of sOctober socks:

I used the X and O pattern from one of Kate Davies Ten Years in the Making  club patterns - the Tree Tram Tro, which is a slipover I know I won't ever knit. So socks it is. I dyed the yarn myself and I absolutely adore the colour they came out. I can imagine doing a whole jumper for Leon in that beautiful fawn.

I'm also racing along with Stephen West's Slipstravaganza MKAL. It's a very cheering pattern, and I am quite happy with how my colours are coming out. Two more clues, such fun. And I can see how it's going to look blocked and off the needles, and it's going to be very bit and bright and fun.

I'm reading a romance called Playing with Fire by L.J. Shen, mainly because I've never read any of her books and it was on Kindle Unlimited. It's fine. It's romance. It's not too smutty and it's going to have a happy ending. Not challenging, just vaguely interesting. (wow, I don't sound too enthusiastic, do I! Not every book needs to be gut wrenching and world changing, right?)


I'm listening to The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donnelly and Nick Toscano. It's the story of Belle Gibson's, who convinced the world that she cured brain cancer, that she never had, by using alternative medicine.


 
I remember when she was exposed by my local paper (who are the same guys who wrote this book). The sub title includes "the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry" and that's  particularity interesting to me. Because I do yoga and Crossfit and stuff that falls under the "wellness" banner, I was shocked at the attitude of a lot of the people I know (or "know" on instagram) about COVID-19. Such a concentration of conspiracy theorists and unscientific nonsense. My (ex) exercise physiologist demanding to know what the co-morbidities of people who died, as if people with weaknesses don't deserve to live. I did a lot of unfollowing and blocking. Anyway, wellness is a fascinating phenomenon,  and so far this is an interesting book.

As always on a Wednesday, I'm linking up with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday. thanks for hosting, Kat.


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  1. I love your sock, the details are so nice and I am loving the light brown color for Fall. Interesting book, she sounds like a hypochondriac, it is so wrong to say you cured yourself of something you didn't even have! It is crazy how some people will actually say that they cured themselves without ever having a diagnosis. I don't understand that people don't think Covid-19 actually exists... there are so many people dying from it and experiencing the symptoms. Take care!

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  2. Ooo! I like those socks! Gorgeous! :) (and thank you for joining us!!)

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