Neglected Knitting May 6, 2008

Perhaps the title of this blog entry is a bit of an exaggeration.  I have been doing some knitting of late but now the lawn bowling season has started and also May is verging on turning into “music month”.

Above is Hodge Podge 6, almost ready for its border.  That pile of stash yarns is getting smaller!

 

 my other current knitting project is another pair of socks

Apart from knitting, time spent lawn bowling is increasing - and that’s a real pleasure with the weather we had yesterday.  Weather almost like summer.  Not so pleasant a couple days previously when it was “winter”.

After the big concert on April 25th, we are now practising for another concert - this one to be even bigger with all the bands of the Rathfarnham Band Society.  Almost 150 players.  This is to be an outdoor concert, weather permitting, to celebrate Europe Day this coming Friday May 9th.   We have had 2 and 3 hour rehearsals one day after another - my right hand is starting to cramp!

Knitting, music making, and reading.  I really like biography and social history.  A few months ago I found a book - a very big book - almost 500 pages - about the Life of Noel Coward.

This book turned out to be quite fascinating, long as it was with lists and lists of parties and party guests over the years.  Having finished that book, I am now turning to a book about Cecil Beaton - another biography and social history.  I purchased it along with the Noel Coward book and I suspect that these 2 books were donated to Oxfam by the same person - I wonder who it was.