Knits

I had a pretty nice birthday. The Boy turned up on Sunday to take me to Kew Gardens. It turned out to be a rather warm day and I wasn’t feeling great, especially when we went into the greenhouses. I kept getting dizzy and felt a bit faint and was even sweating more than I really should have been. Once outdoors I felt better, but I suspect that I’m trying to come down with something flu-like since I’ve felt a bit off for the last 5-6 days.

If you’re into seeing flowers, well it’s not exactly the right time of year to go, is it? Many things are already dead/hibernating or on their way out, but there was still plenty to see and satisfy my photographic-bug for taking pictures of flowers and plants. And of course there were a lot of large scale sculptures on display throughout the gardens.

 

Last night, my real birthday, The Boy came up and we went out for a nice dinner all fancied up. I was absolutely stuffed and didn’t even eat dessert which was okay since during the day at work I’d eaten several (small) slices of cake. I did some baking on Saturday and took the results in to work. I made one small Chocolate Zucchini (Courgette) cake and some Pumpkin bread. The chocolate cake was wonderful as always — it’s pretty tough to mess up really since the zucchini keeps things moist. The pumpkin bread, well, something funny happened there. It was definitely thoroughly cooked according to the toothpick test yet when it was unwrapped and sliced the middle sort of melted out! Slightly embarrassing, but people ate it up.

 

I got a rather nice gift as well as being taken to Kew Gardens and a nice dinner. I was given a digital picture frame pre-loaded with a number of pictures I’ve taken. It’s pretty clever as it allows you to set a timer to turn it on/off and how long each image is displayed. I was also given some chocolates, a british food cookbook (surprisingly little boiled meat ;)), and a Doctor Who book (for children) with the lovely David Tennant in a 3-D hologram on the front. Fellow ex-pat will be jealous.

This morning I had to take Trigger to the vet because she’d injured her mouth over a week ago. She knocked herself into a chair leg rather hard in an excited rush to the door. I knew she’d hit herself hard and after she’d calmed down (initially she ran outside and pawed at her face and then hid under the bed) I had a look and couldn’t see any blood or anything else wrong. It wasn’t until several days later that I noticed her cheek had swollen up. I kept my eye on it and it wasn’t going down so in she went. The vet had to put her under in order to examine her and she’s come away with a number of dissolvable stitches in her mouth (she separated her gums from her lip! OUCH!) and well as a couple of shaved spots where the IV went in and where they made a small incision on her cheek to drain the infected area. Now she’s on anti-biotics for a week and has to return to the vet Friday for a check up. She’s been eating and drinking well and hasn’t really changed her behaviours so it was lucky I noticed her usually pretty profile was looking a bit swollen.

 

Oh yeah, this is a knitting blog! I’m into the third ball of Noro for the cardigan and I think I’ll definitely be getting another ball when I’m in London on Thursday although I suspect it may be a different dye lot… I may have to go on the hunt for the same dyelot. Nothing else on the knitting front happening, but I may pluck up the courage to frog a number of abandoned projects and free my mind from those weighing on them.

The full set of photos from Kew Gardens is on Flickr.

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