Blogtober 2023 : Day 18

Hello to you, it’s Wednesday so we’re in the middle of the week now.  Thank you for letting me know that I’ve not been boring the pants off you over the last couple of weeks – although I’m really going to be pushing the boundaries today as it’s been another jobs-around-the-house day so not especially exciting!

I do have something nice to show you though …

They’re finished!  These are a pair of Basic 8ply (DK) Boot Socks and the yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners Colour Lab – Future Dreams.  They’re currently drying on sock blockers on the Aga lids – the covers mean that the heat isn’t too much for the yarn and they’ll be dry very soon.  (Don’t forget that there’s a Top Sock Tips tutorial on sock blockers if you want to take a look.)

I’ve got another pair of socks on my needles now – no photos just yet but I’ll show you tomorrow 🙂

Today’s jobs-around-the-house have involved me going into the attic.  Our attic is not a place that anyone wants to spend any length of time in, and I have been very guilty of shoving stuff up there that I didn’t want to deal with so it’s full of boxes that need a good sort through.  It’s also not quite tall enough to stand up in and has more than its fair share of ancient spider webs and a whopping old wasp’s nest that looks like the Death Star from Star Wars (and is probably nearly as big) …

It’s very beautiful though, isn’t it?

Anyway, the reason that I was up in this “paradise” is because not so small daughter said she had Heard Something in the attic.  I was inclined to ignore it and hope that it went away, but that’s not always the best course of action so I waited until she was around (just in case I needed her to rescue me) and crawled my way down the attic towards the part that’s over her bedroom.  There is proper crawling to be done at one point as there are beams holding the joists together so you’ve got to either limbo or get down on your hands and knees to get through.

The good news is that I wasn’t eaten by any terrible attic monster and I didn’t see anything that could have been causing a noise – we had mice in the attic when we first moved in; they wore hobnail boots to make sure that we heard them running around and left a terrible mess – but I couldn’t see anything that might have done that so I crawled back out and went to tell not so small daughter the good news.

We’ve got a large mirror on the landing and as I glanced at myself on the way past, it looked like I’d brought half the cobwebs out with me.  Ugh, I had proper Hallowe’en hair!  And no, nobody needs to see photos of that!

I can hear the rain rattling against the windows – there’s a storm coming in and amber and red warnings around the country so do be careful if you need to be out and about over the next couple of days.  I needed to collect not so small daughter and her boyfriend from Liverpool tonight where they’d been at a social event and it was not fun driving on the motorway in the dark with all the spray, and that’s without the storm being overhead too, so do take it easy if you have to travel.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more sock news, and I expect there may be at least one photo of my purple wellies too! 🙂