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Linky Wednesday - 2 of 2024

Things are  going back to "normal" after the summer break. Everyone came back to work this week - I work with only 4 other people, so when two of them are on leave, it's very noticeable. Excitingly my favourite after-school activity goes back this week, so it's off to the pole studio for me!

In knitting, I've been working away on my St Catherine's cardigan / shrug. It's got long, garter stitch stripes, and is an absolute joy to work on - except I failed to do a gauge swatch so I had to rip out my first attempt. Now it's going swimmingly and I will be dividing for the underarms tonight, so by next week I imagine this will look more like a garment and less like a random strip of stripes. 

In reading I did, as predicted, read Victoria Goddard's The Return of Fitzroy Angursell. I enjoyed it and will be reading one of Victoria's other series soon - I might start that after I finish my current book, which is a NetGalley review copy of Leaving  by Roxana Robinson.

I'm only about a fifth of the way through - it seems like literary women's fiction, lots of thinking and talking about relationships and children and how that works. The main characters are in their 60s, and introspective about their lives and journeys. I'm enjoying it so far.

To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoubleknit and on GoodReads as Sharondblk. 

I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday and Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading.  This week I'm also linking up with Sam from Taking on a World of Words to for WWW Wednesday where we talk about what we are currently reading, what we have just finished and what we are going to read next.

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  1. Sherry Jolly15 January, 2024

    Your cardigan/shrug is going to be lovely! Definitely share again when finished, I'd love to see it. It is freezing cold here but it was sunny today, so that is something! Have a wonderful reading week!

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  2. shelleyrae @ book'd out16 January, 2024

    We are still in the midst of summer break, my middle two are from uni and my husband doesn’t go back to work til Jan 21.

    Wishing you a happy reading week

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