How do I know?
I'm wearing woolly socks for the first time in months
These are the first socks I ever made. They took me ages, throughmost of 2021 and 2022. I ended up knitting most of them both twice over, as halfway up the leg of the second sock I realised I'd made a fundamental mistake in the mystical process of Turning The Heel. I now use a pattern which uses a simple afterthought heel which is basically the same as the toe, and I am NEVER going to knit ribbed socks EVER again. One lives and learns... let the yarn to the pattern making is my view!
In the garden
I sowed rainbow chard, pak choi and spinach at the beginning of the month and have deep rewarded by sweet little seedlings
It's interesting to see how different they are. I'm slowly moving my vegetable garden to up near the house. It's all in a collection of large planters. I'll have to somehow make them more decorative if they are going to be where we sit out in dry weather. The advantage is that I can reach the plants more easily; currently I have to switch to an oxygen cylinder to get gown to the veg patch which is often just one layer of effort too much to look after them properly.
Malapropisms
One of my aunts always called the alphabet the 'A B I' instead of 'A B C'.
I can't remember when we started calling them the 'destructions' instead of the 'instructions'. It became very relevant once flat pack furniture became ubiquitous!
I'm enjoying my chard. Is it too late to plant another crop??
ReplyDeleteMy packet suggests September is last month, with cloche protection over winter for a spring crop. A couple of years ago my chard did really well and I was able to pick some until late in the year, it might even have overwintered
DeleteI remember talking about destructions. Pretty accurate, too! Several of my older relatives had their own versions of words, like uncle George's undeliable for indelible, probably mixed up with undeniable!
ReplyDeleteI've cooked a few undeliable meals this week; we had to extract the sausages from the sailed toad-in-the-hole and discard the solid lump of batter !
DeleteThe socks are most attractive. I've never knitted socks - probably never will, but they do look comfortable.
ReplyDeleteThey are bliss... I recommend wool socks for warmth
DeleteMy sister-in-law used to say "terocious" for ferocious no idea why. Somehow we adopted using it too and still do. My feet are always very hot even in winter so I always wear cotton socks. I dread to think what any socks I attempted to knit would look like! I am no knitter sadly, my lovely foster Mum who was a brilliant knitter, tried to teach me numerous times, but I never got beyond knitting a really terrible hot water bottle cover. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteI didn't really get the hang of knitting until I'd left school.
DeleteI love the word 'terocious'
My mother said my sister (when very young) called any writing Ms because her name was Margaret and they were trying to teach her to print her name and it started with an “M”. Interestingly her son Billy called it B Is. Was your aunt named Abigail or something similar?
ReplyDeleteWell, now, she was an Audrey...
DeleteYour socks may have been a problem to knit but they do look cozy and comfortable too. My feet are always cold and I wear socks 10 months of the year...maybe 11.
ReplyDeleteThese socks were... 'a learning opportunity'! I like wearing soft top bamboo socks in summer ☀️
DeleteYour socks and illustration are lovely. I love ❤️ Autumn 🍂
ReplyDeleteIt does make a change after Summer.
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