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Aaaaaah,

The weekend! Dontcha just love it? The sky is blue, hubby has gone to golf, and I have the whole house to myself for five blissful hours. During which I have to dust, vaccuum, do laundry, change the bed linen, tidy, unload the dishwasher, take my sister to collect her car from the mechanic, and buy some wool. *sigh* When you work full-time, your spare time is never your own.

On a squicky note, something is biting me. I don't know what, but the current theory is sandflies. Bloody itchy bites that drive me mad, and come up day after day whenever anything irritates them. I haven't seen any bugs of any sort actually doing the deed, yet every day there are more bites. I'm up to about 15 now. It's a mystery. There are earthworks in the new subdivision behind our house, so maybe they've disturbed some fleas (urgh!) or something.

Anyway, this weekend, itching aside, I am going to knit a pashmina (okay, a shawl) - a trendy one, mind you, not a grandma one. If only I can find somewhere that stocks boucle wool. You'd think in a country of 600million sheep, it would be easy to find!

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Hooray,

I got the coolest wool. Actually I got some black sort-of boucle, and some multi-purple "feathers", which isn't wool at all. It kinda knits up like really long chenille. And at sale price too :0)

I also just discovered that my recently deceased Grandfather left me and my hubby 100 Sterling each, which is more than I ever expected, so that was very sweet, and much needed while hubby is waiting to start his new job. I'm hoping to be able to spend it on something I can keep, rather than bills.

Still itching, by the way. Damn sandflies!