Bones....

Remember the rabbit skeleton? Today Dad and Will decided to take a leaf from Kathy Reichs (writer of Bones the tv series with David (how hot is he?) Boreanaz (aka Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and prepare the bones they'd collected (no, I don't know what for either).

So, after a quick trawl of google, armed with a "recipe" for preserving bones, off they went to the kitchen. Thankfully I toddled off to Spinning Guild for the day as the smell - ugh! I walked in and nearly walked straight back out again. All I can say is it's just as well it was good weather and we could have all the doors and windows open. Still, Will is very happy with his finds so I suppose I should be grateful he has such an inquiring mind! Bizarrely, I wanted to be a pathologist from being about 6 (too much Quincy), so maybe that's where he gets it from.

Weekend walking - fresh air at last!

Just come back from the loveliest weekend with my oldest friend (friend I have known longest, not "old" oldest!). It was our first weekend away since we started the extension and the first time I'd seen Clare in over 18 months. The weather was glorious and we did two walks round where she lives. Much as I love Cheshire I sure miss my home countryside in Yorkshire. Wills discovered a rabbit skeleton and insisted we bring it home (yuck!). A mega-curry (veggie, not rabbit), long chats and laughs into the wee small hours - perfect.

Knitting at Waterstones

Met up with Vicky, Jacky and Lisa yesterday at Waterstones in Bolton. The plan was to discuss a charity event for National Knitting Week, but, as is the way with these things, by the time we'd done catching up and sharing news, it was already lunchtime. Vicky and Laurie surprised us with an invite to lunch at a gorgeous restaurant and I had a great time meeting Laurie, Perran, Storm and Beck (and the mice!). Then it was onto the rather more mundane task of looking for a new sofa and returning some curtains! (No, we still haven't picked a sofa - getting close tho' - honest!)

Spinning, chatting and relaxing

Saturday was my first visit to our spinners, weavers and dyers guild meeting since last October. What a relaxing day! We were learning to do longdraw spinning which I don't find very easy but it was so therapeutic - picking up a handful of raw fibre, carding it into beautiful cloudy rolags and watching them turn into yarn - just like magic. There's a tranquility about spinning that you can't get from anything else (and I'm not even very good at it!).

A woman's work is never done

Hold the last post - bathroom cleaning detail calls. I'm sure Debbie Stoller doesn't have to interrupt her stitch 'n' bitching to don Marigolds and climb in the bath barefoot to scrub the tiles! Maybe one day I shall employ a "woman what does" (no, actually, I think I shall have a "man what does" - equal opps and all that).