[Wednesday] Every week or so I have a one-hour French lesson in which my teacher and I chat about whatever subjects happen to interest me on the day. It allows me to feel European for a while, cross linguistic borders, and pretend Brex(sh)it didn’t happen.
I love the tulips, the Factory dress and especially a peek at the bookshelves (always enjoy a peruse of other people’s bookshelves!). Lots of crossover in the French and Russian sections but you have pointed me towards the Graham Robb ‘Parisians’ - merci et bon dimanche!
You have inspired me to proceed with the factory dress- I’ve had the pattern for ages and now I’m inspired to make it happen. Also the tulips and the socks? Spring incarnate. I am feeling the sock bug kicking in as well...
Your colours always embolden me and I am finding myself wear mustard and a bee printed top or fatigue green with a bright yellow blouse… it’s contagious and brings so much joy…. These past two weeks I have thanked past me for planting hundreds of bulbs on the farm over the years. Being housebound after knee surgery (thank you, cats) I have had a whole new opportunity to survey the landscape from another point of view. Upshot? I need more tulips.❤️
The socks are so joyful. As non-knitter, this year I've been seized by a desire to knit socks. I think because of discovering that my eldest, at the age of 32, is still wearing welly socks from their teenage years knitted by a Norwegian friend. The only slight problem is that I have no memory of how to cast on and other technicalities (erased trauma of school Home Ec lessons).
The Beatles are wonderful, but after reading "How Was it For You - Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s" by Virginia Nicholson, I have to work to dissociate their music from how they treated the women in their lives.
Your socks are brilliant! I have started my first pair of socks one and a half years ago. Obviously, I am not a very keen sock knitter, since I started and finished two colourwork pullovers, two pairs of fingerless mittens (one with a quite intricate fair isle pattern), several mushrooms, one goat, a fluffle (looked up the collective noun) of bunny finger puppets with little rucksacks for chocolate easter eggs and a replacement hat for my husband (which he promptly misplaced after finding the one which had to be replaced in the first place...) all after the pair of socks - which I still have to finish. Maybe I shouldnt have chosen a lace pattern. But now your socks and the tv recommendation give me new Inspiration and hope :-) Lets see how it goes.
I love your Sunday news ! Here in my garden in Ontario Canada the local squirrels enjoy taking my tulip bulbs ( what they do with them I don't know). One year I planted very tall sunflowers along a high fence and not one came up, later I discovered chipmunks had replanted them all over the garden in some quite interesting places! Love to garden!
Thanks to you I now have tulips on my allotment and soon they will be throughout my garden too. What can I have been thinking not to have done this before!
Hello Jane, Thanks to your writing my Sunday mornings are such a joy! I feel centered, laugh and learn. I’m in Charlottesville, Virginia....a town that literally dances in spring. Walking in nearby neighborhoods is a feast for the eyes. We’ve moved on from the incredible displays of Hellebores, etc. and are now basking in the myriad tulips & daffodils, lawns full of marsh blue violets, pots of Johnny Jump Ups, etc. AND especially our Dogwood trees! Last week I saw three large white Dogwoods that made me stop in my tracks. This year I’m learning about wildflowers of Virginia hiding in shaded woods. If you’re lucky you’ll find some Trilliums, Jack in the Pulpit, wild Lady Slipper, Pipsissewa and great this: British Soldiers...😄! Tiny little fire engine red surprises that poke up out of moss and moist logs. Anyway I adore all the common names of flowers and don’t bother with the botanical which would ruin my fun!
PS: If I had a pair of those socks I wouldn’t wear anything else! 🤣
Can't decide what I love more, the tulips or the socks...it's a close match because the colours are so sensational! Thanks for sharing 💛🧡💜💙
I love the tulips, the Factory dress and especially a peek at the bookshelves (always enjoy a peruse of other people’s bookshelves!). Lots of crossover in the French and Russian sections but you have pointed me towards the Graham Robb ‘Parisians’ - merci et bon dimanche!
Oh those socks! 💕💕💕
Oh, the colours of those tulips! I’ll be planting more bulbs next month (I’m in Australia) and hoping to have such stunning masses as you. 🌷
You have inspired me to proceed with the factory dress- I’ve had the pattern for ages and now I’m inspired to make it happen. Also the tulips and the socks? Spring incarnate. I am feeling the sock bug kicking in as well...
Your colours always embolden me and I am finding myself wear mustard and a bee printed top or fatigue green with a bright yellow blouse… it’s contagious and brings so much joy…. These past two weeks I have thanked past me for planting hundreds of bulbs on the farm over the years. Being housebound after knee surgery (thank you, cats) I have had a whole new opportunity to survey the landscape from another point of view. Upshot? I need more tulips.❤️
The socks are so joyful. As non-knitter, this year I've been seized by a desire to knit socks. I think because of discovering that my eldest, at the age of 32, is still wearing welly socks from their teenage years knitted by a Norwegian friend. The only slight problem is that I have no memory of how to cast on and other technicalities (erased trauma of school Home Ec lessons).
The Beatles are wonderful, but after reading "How Was it For You - Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s" by Virginia Nicholson, I have to work to dissociate their music from how they treated the women in their lives.
Glorious!
Your socks are brilliant! I have started my first pair of socks one and a half years ago. Obviously, I am not a very keen sock knitter, since I started and finished two colourwork pullovers, two pairs of fingerless mittens (one with a quite intricate fair isle pattern), several mushrooms, one goat, a fluffle (looked up the collective noun) of bunny finger puppets with little rucksacks for chocolate easter eggs and a replacement hat for my husband (which he promptly misplaced after finding the one which had to be replaced in the first place...) all after the pair of socks - which I still have to finish. Maybe I shouldnt have chosen a lace pattern. But now your socks and the tv recommendation give me new Inspiration and hope :-) Lets see how it goes.
I love your Sunday news ! Here in my garden in Ontario Canada the local squirrels enjoy taking my tulip bulbs ( what they do with them I don't know). One year I planted very tall sunflowers along a high fence and not one came up, later I discovered chipmunks had replanted them all over the garden in some quite interesting places! Love to garden!
Thanks to you I now have tulips on my allotment and soon they will be throughout my garden too. What can I have been thinking not to have done this before!
Hello Jane, Thanks to your writing my Sunday mornings are such a joy! I feel centered, laugh and learn. I’m in Charlottesville, Virginia....a town that literally dances in spring. Walking in nearby neighborhoods is a feast for the eyes. We’ve moved on from the incredible displays of Hellebores, etc. and are now basking in the myriad tulips & daffodils, lawns full of marsh blue violets, pots of Johnny Jump Ups, etc. AND especially our Dogwood trees! Last week I saw three large white Dogwoods that made me stop in my tracks. This year I’m learning about wildflowers of Virginia hiding in shaded woods. If you’re lucky you’ll find some Trilliums, Jack in the Pulpit, wild Lady Slipper, Pipsissewa and great this: British Soldiers...😄! Tiny little fire engine red surprises that poke up out of moss and moist logs. Anyway I adore all the common names of flowers and don’t bother with the botanical which would ruin my fun!
PS: If I had a pair of those socks I wouldn’t wear anything else! 🤣