Advent Calendar, more snow, Christmas tree & knitting!

Got my trusted advent calendar out for another year, really must get a new one, but still like this.

And we had a virtual white-out yesterday afternoon....

But what a difference a day makes........

Put the Christmas tree up & did the wreath, so house is feeling very festive along with the weather

My i-pod/mobile phone covers feature in The Woolclip's newsletter this month, unfortunately though the shop's not been open for nearly 2 weeks now as none of us can get there! Ho hum, roll on summer....

It's Snowing........

Woke up to snow yesterday, this was the sunrise....Which turned into a beautifully sunny day

And a gorgeous sunset.....

Stressed Out.....

Don't think it got above freezing all day today, certainly the frost didn't defrost, if that makes sense & snow's forecast for tomorrow. Am stressing out, as meant to be in The Woolclip tomorrow & am worried about getting stuck going over Caldbeck Common, which is quite high & exposed with no mobile phone coverage, so not the place to get caught out!

Was at the doctors & dentist again on Monday, another blood test at the doctors for B12 deficiency, might be anaemic; then 1 crown being fitted at the dentist & he prepared another tooth for a crown (only 4 more to go). Unfortunately the new crown he fitted was sitting a bit proud & he was pressing & pressing it down with all his weight to get it to go lower by which time the cement had set. It was excruciating, having a 6' 3" 30ish dentist pushing with all his might on your tooth hurts! So he's having to order another one as he filed the new one down so much it's useless! Am going to get an injection next time...

As for knitting, have started an order for someone; my Falling Leaves Shawl in some cashmere/metallic yarn from Fyberspates in grey & silver. Have done a lot of knitting today & only have the edging to do, which will take a while as so many stitches on needles now. Then have another order for a shawl in a navy merino which I must start as soon as. So busy,busy,busy.

Oh & I was in a local paper, The Cumberland Herald.

MacMillan Coffee Morning

There was a MacMillan Coffee Morning in our Village Hall in Lorton today & myself & some friends had a couple of stalls selling knitted, crocheted & embroidered articles.

My journey to work in the shop, The Woolclip

Thought you might like to see how awful my journey is to work in The Woolclip, in Caldbeck is.

This is the view from just outside my village on a bad day!

The view of Skiddaw from Embleton.

For the last 3 weeks I've been lucky enough to meet the Hunt, can you see the Master with Hounds? Fantastic.

Labour eat your words...........

New display in the Woolclip.

And on the way home, across Caldbeck Common, looking towards the Solway

That's Criffel in the distance.

I'm falling to pieces!

Well, I've been at the dentist this week to plan future treatment; I need 1 filling, 1 root canal & 5 crowns, how did that happen? I hardly eat any sweets, I blame it on 60's/70's dentists that were paid for every filling they did, I had so many fillings as a child but never had any toothache, so now my teeth are literally falling to pieces!

If that wasn't enough, was at the optician's this afternoon as I noticed over the last few weeks I can't thread a needle anymore & yes my eyesight's going & I need glasses for close work.

If I was an animal you'd put me down!

Anyway good news re. our bridge in the village, it's getting there, hopefully by the end of the month the 2 sides of the village will be connected again, no more wading through the river or driving 40 minutes extra.

Sparkly Wool...

The wool has metallic thread through it, so it sparkles.

Also, made some wrist warmers in the sparkly wool too - think I'm in a Christmas mood with all this cold weather!