September 2006 Archives

In the fourth and final season of the British comedy television series Teachers, shown here in Australia on the ABC, Summerdown School merges with a nearby school, becoming Wattkins Comprehensive.  That season hasn't aired here yet, but, who knows, the ABC might screen it over summer or next year.  In a case of life imitating art, for the second time in as many years I find myself in the situation of possibly being made redundant at the end of the school year.  At this point in time I haven't a clue what may come - I had seriously begun looking at property here in Armidale in the expectation of buying a house next year.  Whatever happens, I have one goal I'm retaining for next year.  When I finally ditch my current landlord, and wherever I may end up, I'm getting a cat.

I don't really discuss school on here for many reasons, and that's not about to change.  It's been a particularly crummy end to the school term, but I have the school holidays to enjoy, and hopefully some "normal" posts to share over the next few weeks.

This is a post without pictures.  I finished the hand-dyed socks a few weeks ago now, but haven't gotten around to photographing them.  And I still haven't photographed the moebius scarf in daylight either.  It's been a wet, dark weekend, so no good for photography.  No good for getting out in the garden either.  I had to spray paint some jam jar lids with gold paint (don't ask...), and it rained on them.  That sort of sums up the weekend.  But I did tackle a lot of the towering ironing pile I hadn't touched since April while rewatching Dr Who episodes.

There's not much knitting happening - I'm sick of socks for the time being.  I don't have the brain power for the Kiri Shawl, and most of the things I want to start are dependent on doing some yarn dyeing.  I can't even be bothered with a "project pipeline" list like here, here or here.  And I finally got my hands on the latest Interweave Knits magazine but wasn't all that inspired...

Why?  Well Spring sprang last week then we retreated back into cold weather and it's made me feel crappy.  I need to sit out in the sunshine, but there's none to be had.  And I've had some really busy weeks with school that have drained my energy - thankfully the term has reached its crescendo and it should be downhill from here.