I'm coming along quite well with knitting my cotton summer top, although to be honest I don't find cotton very nice to work with. But that's what I'm using in this project so of course I will persevere. The back is completed, and I've started on the front, which I will take away on holiday with me. It's always good to have knitting at the ready, just in case I feel like doing a few rows now and again.
The back is now finished
I couldn't help myself and have cast on two little toddlers hats, to use up some part balls I had hanging about. They are easy small knits so I decided to do two together. One in burgundy, and the other in navy with stripes.
Oh dear, you can't see them, Gemma is checking them out
Two little hats
Of course, I need to take a book on my holiday as well, but didn't want to take a library book. So I'm packing my copy of Wuthering Heights, to read again. There is a film out at the moment which I plan to see on my return, so I thought I would refresh my memory of the story. I do wonder how a clergyman's daughter living with her sisters and dissolute brother in the wilds of Haworth could write such a book of love, lust, revenge and cruelty. But the girls were very well read, I believe, and had been writing stories since childhood. Maybe Emily was full of imagination and longing for love herself.
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
I'll be away for two weeks traveling around the South Island, so will tell you all about it when I return. I'm flying down to Christchurch tomorrow, haven't flown for several years so I'm just a little nervous. It certainly doesn't help that I have just enjoyed watching a series of air crash disasters on TV! Gemma is having her own holiday in the cattery, she wasn't at all pleased when I picked her up while she was sleeping, bundled her into the carry cage, then took her for a drive this afternoon. She usually takes a day or two to settle down, and I know she will be looked after very well by Carol.
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