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Sorry.
Yesterday was Tuesday, which in our place is Beer Line Cleaning Day.
We have three bars, with a total of 17 fonts, which have to be cleaned weekly whether they are used or not. This involves me reverting to my last-but-one job, and donning lab coat, sensible shoes, safety specs and rubber gloves, [...]

KIP

Knitting in Public (normally), or in my case, Knitting in a Public House.
That’s all the knitting time I get at this time of year, as the only time I spend in one place for more than 10 mins is either behind the bar, or asleep. That puts a serious crimp on the kinds of [...]

The trouble with working for yourself….

is that your days don’t really have a defined structure to them. The advantage of working for yourself….
That said, working in a hotel does have certain fixed points:

up at 07.00 to 07.30 to get breakfast ready
bed not before 23.00 once you’ve closed up the pub and counted the (meagre) takings
Hubby is at the [...]

Musings

A brief digression into the slightly dodgy field of politics….
Last week I went off to the Council offices in Newtown St Boswells (as usual, the ugliest building in the town) to swear alliegance to the Queen and promise to be a good person generally.

Very difficult to keep a straight face at some points, [...]

Are you being served?

Just popping in to put in a plug for a new yarn shop in Troon. Fankle is run by a woman I know from when we both lived in Glasgow.
I phoned last week to see if she stocked sock wool, and ordered three balls some time around 3pm. By 7.30 the next [...]

Knot a happy camper!

About the Opal yarn I’m working with at the moment, that is….
I’ve just hit the fourth knot in this one ball (colour 11, dyelot 3303 if anyone cares), and I’ve still got about 1/4 of it to go. Not good. What’s worse is that for about 30 cm after (or before) each knot [...]

And the weather forecast for today is….

Wrong. As usual. According to AccuWeather, it is sunny and 17C at the moment.
I hate to break it to them, but it is completely overcast. Not raining mind, and not cold, but definitely NOT sunny.
The weather channel thinks it’s drizzling and 14C.
Sorry, wrong again!
So, if you’re coming to Scotland, pack everything. [...]

Good day sun-shine

Typical: the weekend is over, the tourists are away…. so the sun comes out. It’s been a gorgeous day: 21C, sunny and feeling like summer. Not at all like last Friday and Saturday when it was 13C, wet and windy; and we had 8 walkers staying with us doing St Cuthbert’s Way. [...]

Tortoise-ing along

Progress overnight on Devan from Knitty in Opal and Sunbeam sock yarns. Slow going, as it’s 180 stitches across both fronts and the back – worked together to avoid having to count three times to get them all the same length.
I was getting a bit fed up and worked out that 180 stitches takes me [...]