What a nice post. I am with you with regard to big sky, it leaves me feeling alone, please give me some mountains and trees to breakup all that blue.
You asked what my plans are for this weekend. Well mostly knitting and watching it snow outside. I live in the states, New Hampshire to be exact, and a whopper of a storm is headed our way.
Before I moved to Glasgow, I think I lived in a very similar part of the UK to you based on how you describe it, although I was in North Essex, near Clacton. The few times I've been back, I was very struck by the huge skies. I occasionally had sheep visiting the field next to my garden and it was always lots of fun, especially at lambing time! I had bats visiting too which was so very special. Late summer evenings watching them swoop over my pond was a favourite memory - moments of calm in what was otherwise a very turbulent time. Bizarrely I never saw any hedgehogs, but in my first garden in Glasgow I had loads!
This week, I am smiling because we got a new boiler in our new-to-us old house. We have had 2 weeks with no heating, which is not something to smile about in Scotland in February!
Last night was my first solo warm night on the sofa and I finally unpacked my knitting needles which made me very happy. I refreshed my memory of M1L and M1R and re-started a stripey shawl/scarf I am making (Escargot Bleu by L'Espace Tricot), and it looks much better on this (4th!) attempt.
Keeping everything crossed for a compatible kitty!
Hooray for being warm, that can’t have been much fun at all. We have bats here too and I absolutely love them - husband isn’t a fan 🤣 And I would agree with the disturbing lack of hedgehogs. In our 20 years here I think I’ve seen 2. And my son (who was about 8 at the time) and in the garden at dusk reported seeing a ‘shuffly guinea pig’. We think it was a hedgehog as no neighbours had a guinea pig 🤣🤣
Oh Louise, I am the opposite. I lived in East Anglia (mostly in Cambridge and adjacent villages) until I was 30. Then I moved to Dorset. It took me a while to identify the feeling of unease I'd developed but one day, driving along the Piddle Valley (not many valleys in Cambridgeshire!) I realised how much I missed the sky.
I hadn't thought about it before but perhaps in the years of our upbringing something is imprinted in our souls about the world as it should be and everywhere different can be disconcertingly not quite right. Of course we get used to it and there are compensations and delights but still every time I go back to the wide vision of those broad open skies something in me says "You're home now."
Oh Louise! Thank you so much for the kind words, for reading Digital Kindness, and for sharing it here with this lovely community you've created! It means the world to me to hear that my work resonates with other kind people who want to knit together a world where everyone flourishes. I loved spending some time in your cozy corner of the internet. And I hope you find the perfect kitty soon. Cats bring such joy! Virtual hugs to you!
Just got the battle mitt’s pattern & found yarn that I think will show it off! Trying to get sone other ongoing projects done before casting on….but I dunno. I may weaken and get ‘em on the needles!!
Try the bread! I’ve been baking like this for years - works a treat, so easy and such good bread. I currently do a no-knead sourdough, but don’t bake it in the casserole pot: after its overnight sitting about doing its thing, I shape it and put it in an ordinary loaf tin, then invert a matching tin over the top and bulldog clip them together (to keep the steam in) until it’s time to take the lid off half-way through baking. The only tricky bit is removing the hot clips with fat oven mitts!
Good luck with the bread! I make bread sometimes, but my kitchen is quite cold and not the best place for getting things to rise … show us how you get on with it….
Hello Louise,
What a nice post. I am with you with regard to big sky, it leaves me feeling alone, please give me some mountains and trees to breakup all that blue.
You asked what my plans are for this weekend. Well mostly knitting and watching it snow outside. I live in the states, New Hampshire to be exact, and a whopper of a storm is headed our way.
Oh goodness. Snow!! I have an Aunt in Toronto and she just sent me a photo of the huge snowfall they have just had.
Before I moved to Glasgow, I think I lived in a very similar part of the UK to you based on how you describe it, although I was in North Essex, near Clacton. The few times I've been back, I was very struck by the huge skies. I occasionally had sheep visiting the field next to my garden and it was always lots of fun, especially at lambing time! I had bats visiting too which was so very special. Late summer evenings watching them swoop over my pond was a favourite memory - moments of calm in what was otherwise a very turbulent time. Bizarrely I never saw any hedgehogs, but in my first garden in Glasgow I had loads!
This week, I am smiling because we got a new boiler in our new-to-us old house. We have had 2 weeks with no heating, which is not something to smile about in Scotland in February!
Last night was my first solo warm night on the sofa and I finally unpacked my knitting needles which made me very happy. I refreshed my memory of M1L and M1R and re-started a stripey shawl/scarf I am making (Escargot Bleu by L'Espace Tricot), and it looks much better on this (4th!) attempt.
Keeping everything crossed for a compatible kitty!
Hooray for being warm, that can’t have been much fun at all. We have bats here too and I absolutely love them - husband isn’t a fan 🤣 And I would agree with the disturbing lack of hedgehogs. In our 20 years here I think I’ve seen 2. And my son (who was about 8 at the time) and in the garden at dusk reported seeing a ‘shuffly guinea pig’. We think it was a hedgehog as no neighbours had a guinea pig 🤣🤣
Oh Louise, I am the opposite. I lived in East Anglia (mostly in Cambridge and adjacent villages) until I was 30. Then I moved to Dorset. It took me a while to identify the feeling of unease I'd developed but one day, driving along the Piddle Valley (not many valleys in Cambridgeshire!) I realised how much I missed the sky.
I hadn't thought about it before but perhaps in the years of our upbringing something is imprinted in our souls about the world as it should be and everywhere different can be disconcertingly not quite right. Of course we get used to it and there are compensations and delights but still every time I go back to the wide vision of those broad open skies something in me says "You're home now."
Oh, that’s so lovely. I do think we get kind of imprinted don’t we based on the landscape we are born into.
Oh Louise! Thank you so much for the kind words, for reading Digital Kindness, and for sharing it here with this lovely community you've created! It means the world to me to hear that my work resonates with other kind people who want to knit together a world where everyone flourishes. I loved spending some time in your cozy corner of the internet. And I hope you find the perfect kitty soon. Cats bring such joy! Virtual hugs to you!
Thank you so much and thanks for all the amazing work you do.
Just got the battle mitt’s pattern & found yarn that I think will show it off! Trying to get sone other ongoing projects done before casting on….but I dunno. I may weaken and get ‘em on the needles!!
Oh fantastic. I hope you enjoy them
Try the bread! I’ve been baking like this for years - works a treat, so easy and such good bread. I currently do a no-knead sourdough, but don’t bake it in the casserole pot: after its overnight sitting about doing its thing, I shape it and put it in an ordinary loaf tin, then invert a matching tin over the top and bulldog clip them together (to keep the steam in) until it’s time to take the lid off half-way through baking. The only tricky bit is removing the hot clips with fat oven mitts!
Ah brilliant, thank you. My cunning plan is to do it overnight on Saturday so I’ll let you know how it goes.
Good luck with the bread! I make bread sometimes, but my kitchen is quite cold and not the best place for getting things to rise … show us how you get on with it….