Hare & Hounds (6)

Hasn't Number 6 been a long time coming?



After a good start my Hare & Hounds Project had lapsed somewhat.

Never mind. I am back on track, and yesterday I visited the above. It is the Hare & Hounds in Dooley Lane, Marple, and it was at roughly the halfway mark on a lovely early autumn walk from Middlewood to Marple. The photo was taken by the Google Streetview Jelly Baby - the weather was much nicer than this yesterday.

The whole walk was a cracker! As well as a refreshing pint in the Hare & Hounds and a walk in the woods, we visited the 16th century Chadkirk Chapel, with its lovely walled garden:


(Photo from Wikipedia, more info here.)

and this:


(Photo from Geograph.)

and umpteen locks on the Peak Forest Canal. Then we got tired so we sat down and drank more beer.

I love my life!

Tiny little teeth

I feel like someone or something with tiny little teeth is chewing on my earlobe. Maybe someone like this:


(Photo from here.)

It is not entirely unpleasant, but it is not right either.

Looting, Pillaging and Plundering

I was busy on Tuesday night, so didn't get to do any looting or rioting.

Last night I was tackling a mountain of ironing so again I missed out. And it was raining, so wouldn't have been bothered anyway.



Now, if you didn't live here you might think this country was beyond hope, but for every robbing scumbag there's someone ready to take the piss. More of the above here.

Elsewhere in town, the rioting was more subdued.


(from YouTube)

Sam's gone to Skem

I hope he knows how very loved he was with us, and how much he will be missed.



Here is Sam in happier times, celebrating his goal against Retford last season. Oh how we laughed! Neilboo's video is on YouTube if you haven't already seen it.

Goodbye Sam, and all the very best of everything in the future.

I'm sad.


To cheer myself I had a look at the FC Forum and found this:



Viva Ken Barlow!

Now I am happy again.

Prince Philip and the Ood

A state visit with a difference.

I hope the Duke managed to get through it without making any of his usual cracks about slitty eyes or being too fat to be an astronaut. Although the Ood isn't fat at all, he has a very trim figure - and a rather natty suit, I think.

I made these myself. The pattern for Prince Philip came from Fiona Goble's book, "Knit Your Own Royal Wedding", which I tackled as one of my Spring Projects. The Ood is my own design.

I knitted a corgi and the Queen and Prince William and Catherine Middleton and Prince Philip (all from the Fiona Goble book). By then I was heartily sick of the Royal Family. I couldn't face knitting any more of them - not Harry or Charles or Camilla or even the Archbishop.

It was because of this that the Ood ended up officiating at the Royal Wedding.



It was when I started seriously considering knitting Lord Sugar that I realised it was time to put the needles and wool away and return to real life.



PS: For those of you not familiar with the Ood, they have a song:


(From YouTube)

It all ends!

My back-to-back Harry Potter reading marathon ended last night. This was a project I started in March - re-reading all seven Harry Potter books before the final film is released next week. I think I spun them out rather nicely - any sooner or later and I would've been too fraught or addled.

This is a pretty good picture of Voldermort, isn't it? Looking at it, I am tempted to knit my own Dark Lord.

It will help to keep me calm while I am waiting to go to the cinema.

One Thousand Miles

I have mentioned before, more than once, that I love walking. Up and down, round and round, here, there and everywhere. Walk, walk, walk. I love it.

So far this year I have walked 1,000 miles. This is further (or faster?) than this time last year, which I attribute to the milder winter. Much as I like walking, I do not walk in snow or ice.

If I had walked that thousand miles in a straight line, where would it have got me?

Here!

This is Nazare, in Portugal. Doesn't it look nice?


I found this on Google Maps. When I went back to find the photographer's name so I could acknowledge it here, I couldn't find the pic again. Sorry. If this is your photo, 1. thank you, it is lovely, and 2. let me know who you are and I'll give you the credit you are owed.

That's enough from me today. Tomorrow I am having a day off.
I'm going for a walk. Yippee!!