E11 Crafty Knitters and perpetual diary

We have stopped the craft group at work.  There were 8 of us, but often only Sarah and I were there, and it was only the two of us the last 3 weeks, so we decided it would be best if the group didn't continue.

Luckily a local knitting group - E11 Crafty Knitters - which meets at a Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday afternoons and a local vegetarian cafe on Thursday afternoons has just started to meet at a cafe on the last Monday of the month in the evening.  I went along and it was very good - the sort of group where I don't feel self conscious that I don't knit very well even though everyone there is far better at it than I am; and everyone friendly. Margaret, who lives opposite a friend of mine, was there and she's a great character.

Some of the group are knitting plants for a knitted installation of a garden, which is going to be exhibited in Bournemouth shortly.  Margaret is knitting a tree trunk on her knitting machine, and Carol brought some chrysants she had make, a knitted cup as the base of something like a tassel which is then brushed.

I will miss the March group as my herbalist is starting a herbal tea course and I will be at that, but I hope to be at the April meeting.

I have a perpetual diary I made (a blank book with over 366 pages so I can have a page for each day). I then put in seasonal things, like the first daffodil in the garden, my first home grown tomato, etc, and some weather notes.  So I know that on 28 February 2006 it snowed and on the 4 March 2006 I was kayaking through thin ice above Tottenham Lock. Today was wet, but much colder than yesterday afternoon.