I am a cider drinker

I am a cider drinker

I drinks it all of the day

I am a cider drinker

It soothes all me troubles away

Ooh aargh ooh argh aay

argh, the classic song by the Wurzels, a wonderful parody of Una Paloma Blanca, and amazingly enough it was a massive hit.

This fit of 70's nostalgia has been brought about by a can of non alcoholic pear cider from IKEA, which is a lovely drink after a 5 hour shopping trip with J2.

D is going to redecorate her bedroom at the weekend (while she is away sailing!) so J2 and I had to go and get the wallpaper, paste, paint, light fittings, lamp & mirror as well as shopping for new school trousers (term starts on Aug 19th).
J2 is has chosen sophisticated black & white from Laura Ashley with touches of red, to replace the lilac paint on her walls (my girl is growing up!)


I was soooo tired last night I couldn't pick up the drop spindle so I contented myself with sock knitting and listening to past episodes of Stitch It! to pick up info from Meghan on spinning.

The sock is Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Sock Recipe - A Good Plain Sock which I'm making in Wendy Happy a cheap & cheerful bamboo/nylon sock yarn- in Aquarius I love the colours even though it's not my birth sign.

Meghan is a relatively new spinner and she won a scholarship to SOAR as she would cascade all that she learnt about spinning to her podcast audience. The eps that I was listening to were reviewing different types of sheep fibre ( Blue faced Leicester, Corriedale etc). It made me wonder what it was that I had put onto my drop spindle, the kit doesn't specify what it is, and then I decided it didn't matter, this is for practising with and I shall use it up, & keep notes on my progress. It's a bit like first time knitting on some random acrylic- it's just to understand the process of knitting, it doesn't really matter what it is.

I also listened to ep 39 of CogKNITive- Dr Gemma is new to spinning too and she solved one of her spinning problems (the unspun fibre getting tangled with the spun fibre) by making herself a distaff for her left hand. I'm definitely making myself one of those as I found that my unspun fibre was tangling with the spindle far too often.

And I'm definitely going to get myself some more Swedish non-alcoholic pear cider- it has a fab taste and there's no hangover. I generally avoid cider because of the awful thumping headaches which tend to arrive the same night- not even the next day. I'd better not sing along to the Wurzels too often though as my family will have me carted away!