Diane-amo

Okay for lack of anything better to say if you expect to find out about love or cholera in the new movie, ‘Love in the time of cholera’, expect to be disappointed.  So what I’m trying to say is I thought I was going to see a moody romance set in a difficult time, but instead I saw a movie not much about love or really disease….  Expectations neither met, exceeded or for that matter pleasently changed.

Right just needed to get that out, now for the moving on part of this blog.  Well I have now knitted three baby hats, so on to a new project.  Looked at various man beanie projects, for my man, settled upon a pattern I knew I could do, no circular knitting needles!  So its just a larger version on the baby beanie, but with more manly wool.  I’ll let you know how I go.

One last thing….  is this early mid life crisis setting in?  I joined K Club the other day.  It is a club for Kenwood appliance users, and by becoming a member you go in the draw for a bread maker, I really want a bread maker, and thought I wouldn’t mind some of those recipes….

Love and peace

Di 

Hi last week of lent, hope your lent commitments have gone well! 

On another note, after knitting three baby hats that are almost identical its time for a new knitting project.  So just putting it out there to my knitting buddies if you have a good project let me know.  Actually a good man beanie would be good, I’m hoping to knit one for my hubby, shhhh he doesn’t know yet…..

Happy Easter everyone

Di

Some one asked me the other day where the sacrifice was in my lent commitment.  Good question and on thinking it hasn’t felt hugely sacrificial.  But reducing rubbish has meant two things, sacrificing my time to get products that don’t have packaging, and sacrificing my ability to purchase products that have a lot of packaging.  I am not going to lie and say I have got this right at every point, for instance someone pointed out to me that I had bought some girl guide bikkies covered in packaging (couldn’t resist my cute neice), and I bought some fast food the other day due to time restraints.  But if anything my lent commitment has shown me that there are other options to packaging out there, you’ve just got to know where to look.  Actually something I started pre-lent but previously wasn’t too proactive in keeping up is purchasing my take away coffee in my own thermal cup.  I know my coffee lady quite well so this wasn’t too weird for me to do. 

Anyway not too long to go with lent, and it looks like I’ll achieve that one council rubbish bag for the forty days.

Di

I thought it was bout time to expound on the virtues of knitting, especially since the blogs sub-title is a ‘coffee drinking, knitting kiwi girl’.  I’ll talk about the coffee drinking and being a kiwi girl at a later date.

Knitting is a new hobby.  I’m surprised I hadn’t discovered its joys earlier in life.  I tried as a child but didn’t really have the ability or patience to master it immedietly.  I still lack a lot of ability but now have a greater patience to see projects through.  So far there has been four projects with a fifth on the way.  I knitted three scarves before having a go at a baby’s hat.  The pattern was super easy to understand for a novice and the outcome kind of trendy.  When I figure out how to add photos I’ll show you.  Knitting can be a little addictive, since starting half way through last year I’ve been known to knit at work, have started a Thursday craft circle at work and have taken my knitting projects camping, and yes I’ve even started blogging about it!

Di

Hi,

After some pressuring I have decided to give this blogging thing a go. I can’t say I’ll be much good at it, or that I’ll have much to really contribute to the blogging world, but it could be a bit of fun.

Di