Home Interior: knitting

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I've been able to do over the last three days is sit glued to the tv watching the flood coverage...weeping along with a mountain of Queenslanders, who are indeed a mob to be proud of...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikbvLr5xKDgWJBEyODMsr86WwLz6sMqj_xbNh48EqA8rHZxx7nKp9dtVbedBhyphenhyphen5IFS9d1rtjuVvfC8aDlUgtsFjs_HmBq-1A4GiFFQ4XKiBgdSddEe0VSaIleOK25Yi9ymzBIrUdToNd8c/s1600/brisbane+floods2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikbvLr5xKDgWJBEyODMsr86WwLz6sMqj_xbNh48EqA8rHZxx7nKp9dtVbedBhyphenhyphen5IFS9d1rtjuVvfC8aDlUgtsFjs_HmBq-1A4GiFFQ4XKiBgdSddEe0VSaIleOK25Yi9ymzBIrUdToNd8c/s400/brisbane+floods2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and knitting dishcloths! </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCTs780RkBJ7iMXQOEQYZwg9MMckrMw511SoBv4RHcp0kVYDbnZu_74LPO2v0XTva8DqUQOAHFE3WT2sU-oPycZnbamdTOXKiJ1DppQHOnVkoTnzFBNCW_4ksxnOxeyjqpEjlZCmGcHnf/s1600/dishcloths+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUCTs780RkBJ7iMXQOEQYZwg9MMckrMw511SoBv4RHcp0kVYDbnZu_74LPO2v0XTva8DqUQOAHFE3WT2sU-oPycZnbamdTOXKiJ1DppQHOnVkoTnzFBNCW_4ksxnOxeyjqpEjlZCmGcHnf/s640/dishcloths+003.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I kid you not. Don't laugh...they're very absorbent. Perhaps I should send them to Queensland :) And no, I don't knit them with calligraphy brushes!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZM02N1PNKbBg8AaNRG5x7Z6XqlsMCHKRuoMKVgX0OYRrKL3VIfGvB6pcFzlW-Yg8iq-9b78ttXS0wVSX4A7fg4WXOPAOsrI3KF3AFCp8D9Uwg3MPtpJ2_SujeR0mGGtsp3TBnDs8RyPYO/s1600/dishcloths+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZM02N1PNKbBg8AaNRG5x7Z6XqlsMCHKRuoMKVgX0OYRrKL3VIfGvB6pcFzlW-Yg8iq-9b78ttXS0wVSX4A7fg4WXOPAOsrI3KF3AFCp8D9Uwg3MPtpJ2_SujeR0mGGtsp3TBnDs8RyPYO/s640/dishcloths+005.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's going to be an awful lot of Chux needed to mop up this lot isn't there?</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQg5UEdVUSR4PxBZ7RXDCK-jAVQJQx9tKJIB_AFr-aVmh1xXXyuivj-fOKDxXIe3ZcUzTVGXSDhgpGy0IAFWB0yANqeD2G-FDhQsWbazaCwxNixmYs0geneOAeb1zUhsVPnxAI3MOcgru/s1600/brisbane+floods3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQg5UEdVUSR4PxBZ7RXDCK-jAVQJQx9tKJIB_AFr-aVmh1xXXyuivj-fOKDxXIe3ZcUzTVGXSDhgpGy0IAFWB0yANqeD2G-FDhQsWbazaCwxNixmYs0geneOAeb1zUhsVPnxAI3MOcgru/s640/brisbane+floods3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wish I was closer so that I could help in some practical, hands on way. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have lived in Brisbane three times in my life due to Army postings and it's the city where my kids were born, so I have a very soft spot for it.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoliEELn1fewebnR9m3j9UUJtTATmX1HeAvcIdsqYlAy7gU7_lQKvKQYBVpVB2XACBS5MW3OLyS3tSTVvghJT2iGSM-E7gYY4bLWtnjZlffKii_cOQDICUb50MFY0W2D930j1N1h8Mpkw/s1600/brisbane+floods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoliEELn1fewebnR9m3j9UUJtTATmX1HeAvcIdsqYlAy7gU7_lQKvKQYBVpVB2XACBS5MW3OLyS3tSTVvghJT2iGSM-E7gYY4bLWtnjZlffKii_cOQDICUb50MFY0W2D930j1N1h8Mpkw/s400/brisbane+floods.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just quietly, I'm a bit chuffed with the dishcloth pattern. I dreamed it up all by myself after much trial and error. There was a lovely black one too but I gave it to Richard.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXZup0P-6E4f-7wzLdfWTFjWTGRzYMfxCBGaqLr-PFZtYUn5GGFQjXpwv2D7wanoZ3BFAFE6D3GnC5UMB7d1A73T3Bkud_JeqjzttfYFwJzzjMo-T-Pga4AMKNYqTyj9s6BMH3j3Yfk6jV/s1600/dishcloths+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXZup0P-6E4f-7wzLdfWTFjWTGRzYMfxCBGaqLr-PFZtYUn5GGFQjXpwv2D7wanoZ3BFAFE6D3GnC5UMB7d1A73T3Bkud_JeqjzttfYFwJzzjMo-T-Pga4AMKNYqTyj9s6BMH3j3Yfk6jV/s640/dishcloths+004.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many photos of the floods in The Australian newspaper's <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/galleries">galleries page</a>. The photos of Grantham are particularly heartbreaking. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's never too late to donate to the Premier's Fund...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html">click here</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...the clean up bill will be just that...billions. And all extremities crossed for <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/queensland-floods/goondiwindi-mayor-confident-levees-will-hold-as-flood-peak-nears/story-fn7iwx3v-1225987541658">Goondiwindi</a> which is holding its collective breath at the moment.</span><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">p.s. I used to knit them like this...double cotton so they are very thick...but perhaps too thick to dry out quickly enough for dishwashing and mopping up...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...they'll probably end up joined together as a rug for the vampire slayer!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjYTc49RBzzWTcFzktI3hw_S6jC1TxoBcEdYJJALp3DSorI0z5P-k0kDYXyj0fFIgg0CpDehmUvp7lfecS_vHKblVxqhueoLP0fqok_zMOZ99xDDi2mkaFBX7lwDBl884HURG_p4D1EFYQ/s1600/dishcloths+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjYTc49RBzzWTcFzktI3hw_S6jC1TxoBcEdYJJALp3DSorI0z5P-k0kDYXyj0fFIgg0CpDehmUvp7lfecS_vHKblVxqhueoLP0fqok_zMOZ99xDDi2mkaFBX7lwDBl884HURG_p4D1EFYQ/s640/dishcloths+006.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

mopping up...tears and a bit of silliness

All I've been able to do over the last three days is sit glued to the tv watching the flood coverage...weeping along with a mountain of ...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwquAM8CNu30L8V-kMANnD74ONmhW6Jfz-3bICNnwYURf_ZeWoaV3dRM3LbcN3JMdZtpzPSlHmOZ_1YX9-_5LFtl5G20ymogYSut34_cauoW2M90QcSP8ownqqjbxZXFHRW7-AevvwuTWg/s1600/kindness_is.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwquAM8CNu30L8V-kMANnD74ONmhW6Jfz-3bICNnwYURf_ZeWoaV3dRM3LbcN3JMdZtpzPSlHmOZ_1YX9-_5LFtl5G20ymogYSut34_cauoW2M90QcSP8ownqqjbxZXFHRW7-AevvwuTWg/s640/0kindness_is.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You hear (or read) about so many acts of kindness in this bloggy world. I hadn't expected that when I started, although I suspect if I'd actually thought about it, it might have gone down as one of those glimpses of the bleeding obvious.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsZL4mE-Kexe51BgLRlRV1Tw-UEsfYG8hh6zT0yJxunJLjHIWhApHSn62ojxz-bgdD9jnd6XOxlN8vgVkfH107vDrl6aRLPWmHMj6stQYFyux50xtny3d0rvyVKX6VhFs3h8GvjLB1oJH/s1600/kindness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsZL4mE-Kexe51BgLRlRV1Tw-UEsfYG8hh6zT0yJxunJLjHIWhApHSn62ojxz-bgdD9jnd6XOxlN8vgVkfH107vDrl6aRLPWmHMj6stQYFyux50xtny3d0rvyVKX6VhFs3h8GvjLB1oJH/s640/kindness.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kindness is pretty much everywhere. Friends rally when you're glum. I've had lots of 'rallying' in the last few days. From my 'here in my home town' peeps and from my online friends. And that has been so lovely.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when you're feeling out of sorts it's wonderful to come home and find a package in your mailbox. It puts a smile on your face and makes you feel a bit better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXuq-sKB8djaqsyONT0XhvGCEWlP-T_fg7ijvg1wuUZX7xttdwuvN_gQR-pvXlMyZ0lExIeKuSm9v0yrQvUgiS7PWizFOV-ptuaVFjx1JyLAKoHTS-MsUu9ARDnUyUwO93PZZR0G_3723/s1600/you+have+heart+feel+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXuq-sKB8djaqsyONT0XhvGCEWlP-T_fg7ijvg1wuUZX7xttdwuvN_gQR-pvXlMyZ0lExIeKuSm9v0yrQvUgiS7PWizFOV-ptuaVFjx1JyLAKoHTS-MsUu9ARDnUyUwO93PZZR0G_3723/s640/you+have+heart+feel+it.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">this image is via </span><a href="http://chasingsatellites.tumblr.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">chasing satellites</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">...the first born's new tumblr (it's lovely - you should visit)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The package was from my friend Mary in Canada. She follows my blog and always leaves lovely comments. We met each other 20 years ago when our husbands were posted to the UK. Mine in the Australian Army, hers in the Canadian. She's still got hers though!!! We only reconnected recently through the wonders of Google and a name search! Thanks so much for doing that you guys :) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can tell she reads the blog because she knitted me some <a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2010/07/gone-all-gaga-over-dishcloth.html">dishcloths</a>!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLw4esjGMrTBxTfJnhgJWLmNw1NeY5NRlWm1aMJk9ZHrpwZBxO3fhSAHOfwGlbf3ApoTdZkgA37FHSKHN_8FpC_666nDq9HsgMdXExFTH65psUV_XeJ3UK-zTW4f88sQlUNy3urc5yMLxY/s1600/marys+dishcloths.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLw4esjGMrTBxTfJnhgJWLmNw1NeY5NRlWm1aMJk9ZHrpwZBxO3fhSAHOfwGlbf3ApoTdZkgA37FHSKHN_8FpC_666nDq9HsgMdXExFTH65psUV_XeJ3UK-zTW4f88sQlUNy3urc5yMLxY/s640/marys+dishcloths.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...they even came with a colour coordinated card...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkx3aHznv65uHiqtzSYFHsPRHMr3fCAcjY0L1ZDH4D62323SgIkrN1cMRXA90NLjN7psrhtS0QUK_-VOmxcTcTSRJiLYYYbnWKFlKpP2kiag6DlzYAUAGRgbirrvz_rXNWkhyjb_vdE_K/s1600/marys+dishcloths+and+card.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkx3aHznv65uHiqtzSYFHsPRHMr3fCAcjY0L1ZDH4D62323SgIkrN1cMRXA90NLjN7psrhtS0QUK_-VOmxcTcTSRJiLYYYbnWKFlKpP2kiag6DlzYAUAGRgbirrvz_rXNWkhyjb_vdE_K/s640/marys+dishcloths+and+card.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and instructions in case I want to make some too! Well thank you Mary...I just might do that:)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZN4hBAQT4V-WEFlDvwZLWEVNyuNgd4waRXelr1-piY9AXMMXgmDQQassa2LAv8dQftrwgT2Vlhh006iv_1E__YUu_EvG-jdryfSTAmNM0kzulBnRSNB63OAiwUIVIdwdPxVnfY5OXs9JS/s1600/marys+dishcloth+instructions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZN4hBAQT4V-WEFlDvwZLWEVNyuNgd4waRXelr1-piY9AXMMXgmDQQassa2LAv8dQftrwgT2Vlhh006iv_1E__YUu_EvG-jdryfSTAmNM0kzulBnRSNB63OAiwUIVIdwdPxVnfY5OXs9JS/s640/marys+dishcloth+instructions.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And last, but not least...thank you everyone for your comments about my blues. I knew you'd understand and I am very grateful. They're still hanging about (blast them to smithereens!), but honestly, I know I have very little to be glum about. Nonetheless, I'm going to take your advice and take it easy for a week or so. I've noticed there are a few others doing that...perhaps it's that time of year!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I come back I'm sure I'll be much chirpier (thanks <a href="http://smallacornsnz.blogspot.com/">Amanda</a>, such a good word to be reminded of!). In the meantime I'm going to do some of this...a bit of getting fit..or at least starting the process (because boy do I need to do that!) and spend some time in the garden (if it ever stops raining). Oh yeah, and there's that pesky work to go to as well in between knitting dishcloths ;)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-rwn6HjwcKbedB33wclnkpwaVwtV9PHdyhRTGtV1ZLEkC_fFRUbePpkUuYwexIgq-_SdkeyYxtINQ7Oa4TbG-kDyuyeNFrwkJedoukWn_wF7sw7soh4mTNNMMUsJlwW8UCdS1CDHh2Hp/s1600/wii+game.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-rwn6HjwcKbedB33wclnkpwaVwtV9PHdyhRTGtV1ZLEkC_fFRUbePpkUuYwexIgq-_SdkeyYxtINQ7Oa4TbG-kDyuyeNFrwkJedoukWn_wF7sw7soh4mTNNMMUsJlwW8UCdS1CDHh2Hp/s640/wii+game.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do hope you'll still be around when I come back, because I really do appreciate you. If not, that's ok too. I'll still be blog stalking of course :) And as this lovely picture Jess took last night shows, there's always a rainbow somewhere...very pretty isn't it?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8QwPtrvA_n7Yr8-JabAUbPivFbuuoefkIxJ7AcXWMRS6RF05oQ7-Hmi5Jhjb-qHQ_Y95avPSMdQUgiLqlHefrw13j4bFhyWzWFh96fuMTsLg1bfeCwbtUC7c1POMzbXa89ruiSnxtB9j/s1600/jess+rainbow+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx8QwPtrvA_n7Yr8-JabAUbPivFbuuoefkIxJ7AcXWMRS6RF05oQ7-Hmi5Jhjb-qHQ_Y95avPSMdQUgiLqlHefrw13j4bFhyWzWFh96fuMTsLg1bfeCwbtUC7c1POMzbXa89ruiSnxtB9j/s640/jess+rainbow+photo.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>

soul food friday ~ friendship, acts of kindness and a break

You hear (or read) about so many acts of kindness in this bloggy world. I hadn't expected that when I started, although I suspect if I...