Twinky is home and well, thankyou all so much for your thoughts and messages! 🙂
The surgery was routine, went like clockwork, but she is still sleepy and hiding in a corner. I think she is more than a little miffed that we put her through it all.
In knitting news, nothing is happening 🙁
I had done 10 inches of DH’s silkroad sweater, when I had to face facts and admit that the gauge being a little bit off did matter. The front was 4 inches wider than it should have been. Now my DH is not small, but it was looking like an afghan. So the sweater has been frogged, an Addi turbo in a 3.5mm has been ordered. So I decided that I would start Em’s Katia cardigan. Gauge issues again. Too loose on 10mm, too tight on 9mm. I am about to try again on 9mm bamboo straights.
I hope you’re all having more knitting success than I!!

Twinky is at the vet tonight, awaiting her desexing tomorrow. I feel far more apprehensive than I expected to, although the vet gave all the right answers to our questions, asked us the right questions, and gave us the standard “There is a risk involved..” speech, although he assured us that he hasn’t lost a rabbit yet.
I am hoping that she comes back a slightly calmer bunny, with less destructive tendencies (she has ruined carpets, linoleum, blinds, electrical cords, etc, etc).
The vet said we can call at around 5pm tomorrow and she should be ready to come home then.
She definitely wasn’t happy – this is her first vet visit, and of course there had to be a huge dog there when we arrived, whining and barking. When we finally saw the vet, she jammed her feet against the sides of the carrier and refused to budge. This is a bunny with a brain! 😉

Mail Day!!!
I love getting mail! Well, perhaps not the bills that always seem to come.
The books are from Amazon. Surprisingly enough, they were ordered a week apart, both were ordered from Amazon USA, but one parcel came from Hong Kong, and one came from Hamburg! Knitting On The Edge is gorgeous. I haven’t had time to read it in depth, but it looks great. Finishing Techniques I have been lusting after for months, and finally decided to just buy it. I also got the new Stephen King book with Knitting On The Edge, and Kids Knitting (which has been put away for Christmas) with the Finishing Techniques.
That gorgeous yarn is hand dyed sock yarn, bought from eBay, dyed by Celia, whom I have spoken to via Knitters Review. The colours are beautiful, and as my DH is on a green kick, he shall get Leprechaun green variegated socks!
The yarn really is beautiful.
I think my credit card may be confiscated in the next few days 😉 I also contacted Rob from Threadbear, and ordered Lucy Neatby’s “Cool Socks, Warm Feet” and some Bearfoot sock yarn and some Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock yarn. If I knit nothing but socks for the next year, I’ll still have a sock yarn stash. (ROTFL – I typoed that as “sick yarn stash” I’m sure there is inner meaning there!) And before Christmas, I swore that I would never knit socks.
Psst… Apple Laine are having a big sale and all their Koigu is on sale. If all of you buy it, there’ll be none left, and I can avoid temptation. 😉

We went to the Drive-in this evening to see Shrek 2.
Our local drive-in usually shows a double feature at 8pm for $13.50 per head, but in the winter school holidays, they show a G rated movie at 6pm for $22 per car. It’s hilarious to see all the vans lined up at the back with all these kids piled in the back! 🙂
Shrek 2 was hilarious. I enjoyed it way more than Harry Potter, although Em gave us a few odd looks when some of the jokes went over her head.
I finished Em’s novelty yarn scarf, and ended up using only one ball, and I bought 3. God only knows what I’ll use the other 2 for! Pics tomorrow 🙂

We went to a shopping centre an hour or so away from home today, and whilst we were wandering, we came across a bead shop. So I bought a handful of mixed beads and some pins and split rings, and made me some stitch markers 🙂

It was great fun! And I’m pleased with the way they came out, too 🙂
In other news, it rained today. All day. This may not seem like a big deal, but we’re in drought, so it’s a big deal! Here in Sydney, we’ve been reduced to only being permitted to water our gardens on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays before 10am and after 4pm. Not allowed to wash cars with hoses, no hosing of footpaths or other hard surfaces, no filling of pools, etc, etc. So rain is a big deal.
I just wish it wouldn’t come when all my laundry hampers are full!