Cos I'm a follower - book list

Book meme - Because others on the Posh group on Ravelry were doing this, I decided I wanted to too.


This one is originally from the Big Read. Apparently they reckon most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read. -
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( I might have read this but I can't remember )
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

And the conclusion is - I read far too much!

Ketchup?

I've not really got back into this blogging lark yet. I will get better.

Meanwhile -

You Are Ketchup

You are easy going and very measured in your approach to life. Popular and well liked, you get along with everyone. Seriously, everyone loves you! Your taste tends to be pretty mainstream American. You go for the classic favorites: burgers, fries, and apple pie. You get along best with mustard and mayonnaise personalities.

What Condiment Are You?

thanks for the link Trashcan

Unfortunately I hate Ketchup - or tomato sauce - or tommy sauce. Horrid stuff.

Woolfest report

Thank you so much for your welcome back comments.

Well - Woolfest was wonderful. I only managed to spend 2 hours there - could quite happily have spent all day - but I think I snaffled enough stuff to keep me going. Above and below are pictures of my haul. This may look awful, but I had been planning this expedition for a while. I've been a good girl and saved up and stuck to my budget. So I have the added joy of not feeling guilty - and my children can still eat!



Somewhere in this pile is
yarn from Fyberspates, Natural Dye Studio, and the YarnYard.
Fibre from the YarnYard and Twist Fibre Craft.
A drop spindle (which I'm a bit nervous about using, hopefully kind mr Amazon will deliver a book to me today which will help me work it all out).
A swift - no more tangled skeins (especially cobweb lace ones, ugghh. One day let me show you my dreadful tangle)
and some sock blockers.

While in Woolfest I was so overawed by the whole thing that I didn't take any blinkin' photos! Sorry.

Here's a chap we saw the next day out in the lakes. He's where the angora comes from.


While away I started work on a pair of socks using Skein Queen's lovely plushness. I didn't like the way they worked out so I started again. I'm using the top rib from the waving lace socks in Interweave knits Favourite Socks, and the rest is plain.

(Doncha love the blockers?)


Well - I had a great time.

Definitely going back next year - though I may leave the family at home! I require more than 2 hours there. I'd better start saving now!

Roll on Iknit in September.

Tomorrow

Woolfest tomorrow!

I can't wait!


Squeeeeeee!

So long, farewell....

Auf Wiedersehen......you know the rest.

After quite a bit of thought I've decided I'm going to stop this blogging lark.

I've had a good time, but I've decided the most fun I have is reading other blogs. Creating my own - I just don't have the time to dedicate.

And, probably more to the point. People outside blogland - ie REAL people who actually know me, relatives and things - are getting to know about this and ask me. This is not what I ever wanted.

This was my haven where I could talk about knitting and stuff and ignore the eye rolling and yawning and avoid "granny" comments. But now others are getting to know (heaven knows how - probably through random searches. There was one person got to me the other day through a search on google for "cushion innards". Good grief.)

I think now I can get a lot of my knitting fix through ravelry, man that place is addictive. So between that and stalking all the bloggers I love I will be fulfilled.

So. Thanks for everything. I will pop up on comments and things.

Take care of yourselves.

I'll leave this post up for a while but then I'm going to lock the blog.

But I will be watching! Behave yourselves!

knitting and shoes

Sorry to have taken so long between posts. Pesky work and kids and stuff just seems to get in the way of me and the PC. I also apologise for not having commented on any lovely blogs lately.

I will announce the winner of the wool, erm , soon.


Meanwhile - I have been knitting


I made a Forest Canopy Shawl out of some Dream in Color Smooshy in Wisterious. Lovely colour. Dead simple pattern. Lovely result (note to self - chocolate stain on white chair. Stop children from eating in front room!!).

Then - as a break from lace while I consider my next project I've begun a plain plain plain cusion cover using some Debbie Bliss Pure Cotton I got in the John Lewis sale last year. It is so soft. (Note to self 2 - do not let children near this with chocolate!)

Look what I brought home from the shops yesterday. I was in serious need of some new work shoes. (Sadly Uggs and Birkies are not considered suitable office wear. Pah. Surely I'd get more work done if my feet were comfy?) Pretty, no?


There was a time I would never have even looked at flat shoes let alone buy them. I'm only little and need all the help I can get heightwise (ug , horrid made up word!). I remember trudging up and down Manhattan for days in 3 inch heels once, Mad Mad Mad. Now my pretty heels are in the cupboard gathering dust. And I edge ever closer to the frumpy mum brigade. But who cares as long as I'm comfortable? Wow - who ever thought I'd utter those words!

And here is the winner of some Lorna's Laces.


Comment number 10 - Cmoon.

I'm afraid my selection process was as advanced as using the random function in Excel. Evidence above. I did this at work so I had witnesses and it's all above board etc etc.

If you let me have your address I'll get this posted off to you as soon as poss.


Congratulations


And the knitting gene does not fall far from the tree. I found this little person trying to make her dolly a scarf yesterday.

Mojo not rising - and a little giveaway.

After the intense waxing of my Sock mojo over the past few months. It now seems to be on the wane.

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I'm starting to look at lace patterns and feel the urge to start a shawl of some sort. A copy of Victorian Lace Today left the shop with me yesterday and I'm drooling over all the lovely pictures.

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I don't know if it's the prospect of warmer weather coming (I keep dreaming) and the hope of wearing birkies ahead, but my sock knitting is now becoming a background activity. It's not stopping, just slowing, waning.

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I still keep a pair on the go - handy for working on in the car, while the kids are eating, when I should be doing something else... I carry a pair of socks in progress at almost all times. What if something were to happen on the way to work for example, and I had to sit in the car with nothing to do? What if all 300 people were to leave the office and I were suddenly alone, able to knit, but with none to do? Generally these things don't happen, the socks go to work, the socks come home from work. But you never know!

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Over the past months I have been steadily building my sock yarn stash (see top pic). I have enough to make at least 11 pairs of socks. This should see me through. So, in a fit of generosity, I'm giving some away.

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If you should like some Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock - picture below - just leave a comment. If there is more than one person wanting this then I'll draw the names out of a hat (or other suitable receptacle). Hey, you don't even have to make socks with it.

So there you go - help me declutter slightly.

And here is a link to a doors song - I couldn't find a decent "Mojo Risin'" on you tube. But I'm sure this will do. Aaahh the Doors, Jim Morrison - How I used to wish I had been born earlier. I would have saved him! Or at least knitted him some warm socks!