Sunday

Good morning - very early!  I've woken wide awake so I'm doing what I always do and what 'they' say you shouldn't do but which works for me, and opening the technology.  As I'm not at home, I'm not going downstairs and won't bother with a coffee but I can feel myself getting a bit tired again so, hopefully, it will work soon!

Yesterday passed well.  I made a lovely big bowl of 'everything' soup which will be on the menu again today, did some washing and ironing, made some salmon fishcakes and sorted out this, that and the others as well as getting on with some knitting.

Mum really loves the fishcakes I make.  They're very simple.  I use mashed potato with butter and cooked salmon and I just form the resulting mix into patties which I flour, egg and crumb before open freezing.  Yesterday there were no eggs so I tried milk instead and that worked fine while the breadcrumbs were a mixture of fresh ones from the freezer, a zizzed piece of unwanted toast and some commercial breadcrumbs. 

It was a day for using up bits and bobs - the breadcrumbs, bits of veg in the soup and for dinner I found a small amount of sweet crumble topping in the freezer which went over some tinned mango to make an absolutely delicious dessert.  I only tasted it as I'm being a good girl and sticking with the SW plan but Mum and Dad polished the lot off with cream on top.  Most satisfying.

Today is likely to be more of the same, more or less.

The chunky yarn I got from Aldi is knitting up quite well.  It took me three goes to get the panel pattern correct which was a bit frustrating but I have it now.  Because it was so cheap, it's quite a 'thin', chunky and the jumper will be fairly 'soft' which is perfect for what is a sort of over-tunic type thing, quite long so I can wear it with my newly and bravely acquired leggings.

What I want to know is what do you do when the legs of the leggings are a bit too long?  And what do you team them with on your feet?  Advice would be most appreciated, please.  Someone, some fictional character, I think, can't remember who, once said while one doesn't mind appearing wicked, one doesn't want to seem ridiculous (or words to that effect) **.  I know what they meant!

I'm starting to feel tired again so I'll see if I can get back to sleep.  Have a good day.
xx

** Just thought - was it Miss Read talking about the Provincial Lady?