Five years time
That’s Randy the Ninja visiting Edinburgh. He’s pointing out the Scott Monument. I love that I can now visit Edinburgh as a day trip. It takes about as long to get from my flat to Edinburgh as it did to get from Oxford to London and it’s about 2.5 times as far. And the scenery is approximately a million times nicer. I’ve already planned some day trips to locations between here and Edinburgh for some walks.
I went up overnight actually to take in some of the annual Edinburgh Festivals which includes the most famous of them all, the Fringe Festival. I just wandered around taking in the sites and sounds, people watching. My weekend was somewhat ruined by some bureaucratic bullshit, but also, returning to Edinburgh on my own was probably not wise. It just reminded me of being there in May 2007 with my mom and Kristal knowing that at that time Kristal was holding onto a secret, but never let on. I hope I’ll return again soon and be able to have happier memories there.
The weather was stunning as you can see. I had no intentions of seeking out any yarn shops, but I did accidentally stumble across k1 Yarns where Ysolda works. The shop was already closed, but I spied Ysolda behind the counter tidying up some hanks of yarn. It was like celebrity sighting hehe.
I haven’t finished the socks, but I have cast-on for a scarf. A lightweight, lacy scarf that is going to be giant if I use the whole skein. I’m knitting the Strangling Vine scarf (Rav link), but have skipped the garter edge and will do something along the lines of the Flutter scarf (Rav link) for the ends. I’m using the yarn I got in my pirate/ninja swap — J. Knits Superwash Me Sock — it’s a light fingering weight. There’s no way I could’ve knit socks with this as I knit my socks REALLY tightly and I’d need really, really small needles for this (and considering I tend to knit socks on really small needles already — 2 - 2.5mm — I couldn’t do it). The skein was about 113g and so far I’ve used about 17g and it’s 14″ long unstretched. This thing might be a giant.
It’s just about to go noon and I’m still in my pyjamas. I might actually head back to bed for a wee snooze and then get up to do the domestic things that need doing. Oh it’s a bank holiday here today; I’m not skivving from work.
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Comments
Edinburgh looks lovely! Glad you ran into good weather. I always think of Scotland of someplace with perpetually unpredictable weather. Maybe that’s not so. I do hope you garnered a new good memory or even two :)
I love staying in my PJ’s until midday - and then taking a nap. Sounds like a perfect day.
Your scarf will be beautiful!
Posted by: jillian | August 25th, 2008 15:21
Oooo gorgeous pics :) My friend went to the Fringe and stumbled on the shop too, but didn’t see anyone who looked like Ysolda (although I had to inform her she had been somewhere famous in knitting blogland!).
Also, there is NOTHING wrong with wearing pyjamas till noon on a bank holiday. It is in fact the law in the UK to do that.
Posted by: Bryony | August 26th, 2008 18:36