Friday Chat Day

Hello friends

Happy Friday, how are you?

From photo heavy last week to photo scant this week! 

This week has flown by in a blur of work, head down at home and

up to the city a couple of days.

Whilst waiting for my commuter coach at Tower Hill I took this 

photo of the Tower of London - no scaffolding, first time I've seen it without

renovations for years.  Also a break in the traffic to snap this.

Quite strange to imagine all the goings-on over the years inside the Tower,

a lot of bloodshed for sure!

And earlier in the week the rain came!

Waiting for my commuter coach in Gravesend huddled under my brolly.

And didn't it rain!  Garden absolutely sodden.

I was awoken by it lashing against the front of the house, felt like

all my camping holidays as a child! 

Crochet:

The squares for the front panel of the third cushion are done,

I'm always a little impatient at this point and think I should block these,

but then I sew them together and block them as one panel - seems to work OK.

 Blocking seems to spark off quite a debate - those who absolutely

insist upon it and have the blocking boards etc., and me...

I pin it to my bedroom carpet overnight!

(I create a little barrier so the cats and Bella do not go near it).

I was making good pattern writing progress until I realised I had forgotten 

to weigh the yarn - it would be really useful to know

how much you need of each colour wouldn't it!?

Especially as I'm recommending this as a stash busting blanket.

I will be starting cushion 4 (the commission is for 5 so I'm nearly there)

and I've placed a huge post-it on my notes saying 'weigh yarn for pattern info!'

Telly:

 Now I'm back in the office and chatting to colleagues they

are sharing lots of telly recommendations.

I had been in a bit of a streaming fix (Netflix, Prime, Acorn etc)

so this week I did visit 'normal' TV channels and watched:

Manhunt - ITV

Factual based drama looking at the work of Colin Sutton, 

who was a Senior Investigating Officer on some of the 

Metropolitan Police's most high profile cases.

Martin Clunes does a fab job in this role as unpretentious Colin Sutton.

No sensational car chases, shootings just pure drama -

with some chilling thought provoking moments when 

you remember this is based on real crimes.

Other stuff:

Apart from going out to work I haven't been able to go anywhere 

due to no diesel, petrol seems to be available here in the South East but 

diesel is tricky to find.

I'm thinking it will hopefully sort itself out this weekend and I can visit

family and pop to my cabin -  I've got some ideas for November's kit.

And that is pretty much it for this week - bit boring!

Due to my lack of content...

I can recommend the Attic 24 blog - Lucy there is taking part in 

Blogtober - she is writing a blog post every day for this month.

Along with her gorgeous crochet and cute cat Tilly - she also shares 

beautiful pictures of where she lives up North (Skipton I believe),

her posts are an array of colour and a feast for the eyes.

And that was my week, I swear it was on fast forward.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Take care friends.