My guitar tutor has put me onto this chap – Ryan Adams. Different to what I normally listen to, but this is usually how I come across music that I end up loving. Adams’ sound is a blend of rock/country/folk/blues, he’s got a great voice and is really prolific in his album releases. I’m now thinking of going to see him play at the Civic on 8 March. This video is off his latest album (Ashes & Fire) which he’s currently touring behind. I’ve just bought it on iTunes and I think Gold is about to follow suit. Take a listen…
I have contracted the flu – again. For the second time in as many months. I am firmly convinced it’s because I stupidly agreed to get the flu vaccine last year. My logic is simple – don’t get the jab, don’t get the flu. Get the jab, get the flu. As I have been flu-free for many, many years, I call foul on my co-workers who insisted this wouldn’t happen.
Dear Co-workers
It happened. Curse your eyeballs.
Sincerely
Me
However, revenge is sweet. Due to having used up all my sick leave in the last flu bout, I must now come to work to sniffle attractively and cough politely – all into our craptastic airconditioning that turns my side of the building into Siberia from 11am on. You might wonder why it doesn’t get fixed. Simple – the people who could get it fixed are on the other side of the building… which is blissfully temperate. Starting next week, I’m going to protest – by wearing my big cardigan, a woolly hat and a different scarf for every day. Strange looks don’t bother me at all. I may even bring in a fan heater.
And the sniffling will escalate from awful to truly disgusting because yes, I’m that mature…
OMG, are these cute or what?! Well of course they are. Who doesn’t love penguins? It’s like saying baby polar bears are fugly. Pfft. If I can inch past the knitting and the spinning and the buggered shoulder from said knitting and spinning, then I’m going to make some. My fabric stash is massive and increasing. I try not to think too much about the fact that it’s not lovely cotton print quilting material, but is in fact interiors swatches (albeit gorgeous Mokum Fabrics interiors swatches) liberated from their swatchbooks. I’m going to need a gruntier sewing machine than the plastic pipsqueak currently in residence…
Instructions for making them are at Purl Bee, and be prepared to get lost in this wonderful site as you see more and more lovely things to make. There’s just.so.much!
Incidentally, I haven’t been idle these past weeks. I’ve been destashing the fibre stash and have now spun up 4 lots of Southern Cross Fibre Club Fibre from aaages ago. I’ve also not neglected the Cultivated Vines sweater – the back is done and I’m a third through the front. Are there mistakes? Of course. Will it fit? I have no idea. Do I care? Not a whit. Well, not yet anyway. I also managed to tackle a new song on the guitar – Blackbird by The Beatles – and am making miniscule progress on accurately playing chords. I’ve got the hang of tab, at least for this song, but fretboard fluency and proper technique continue to (mostly) elude me. Still, I’m not worried – it’s an improvement over 2 months ago when I couldn’t play a single note. So, go me! Plus, I’m encouraged by things like this:
