Weeknote #10

• Reached my 10th weeknote!

• Making progress on grey jumper gift knit

  • Working on the front and back panels TAAT to avoid finishing the back and giving up

• First tomato plant has been transplanted into the grow bag in my green house

• Visited Hampton Court Palace for the Tulip Festival

  • Favourite tulips were the ones with fringed petals

• First Lime bike trips and I’m fully converted by e-bikes. If only they weren’t so expensive…

• Finished my Victorian chemise and it’s everything I hoped for - perfect nightie and for under a corset

• Dropped my sewing machine off for its first ever service - after 4 years it’s probably about time

• Got my first filling at the dentist and promptly treated myself to some art to hang on the wall of our kitchen

• Girls trip to Bath - first visit since a couple of months after graduation in 2017

  • Spa trip to the Thermae Bath Spa which was an end of year exams treat every year at university

  • Thaikhun dinner was delicious

  • Portofino’s for seafood was heavenly - the best moules marinière I’ve ever had!

  • So many gluten free breakfasts:

    • Potato cake at Rosario’s

    • Pancakes and smashed avocado at Sweet Little Things

    • Poached eggs at Boston Tea Party

  • Trips to two yarn shops:

    • A Yarn Story - Knitting for Olive merino x3 in dusty artichoke

    • Wool - 2 skeins Manos del Uruguay Alegria in the Jacaranda colourway and a skein of Woolf Wool DK in the colourway Elderberry