A short but excited posting

Short and sweet today, it's all excitement here. Just had a 'phone call from Jim to say that he's out from a three hour grilling , and he's passed his viva ;) Just one minor correction to put into the thesis next week, and he's done. Well done that man.

Remember, Remember

OK folks, it's 5th november, or Movember if you're trying to grow the annual moustache - which I'm not.
I have no knitty or stitchy pics for you today, and no exciting news to impart, except that I may have a good lead on this bigamy case that I'm chasing. More in a day or two when I know a bit more.
If you're having fireworks, enjoy - and stay safe. More tomorrow

I've just spent another fascinating morning at the library, scanning the microfiche looking for a bigamy case - talk about elusive! I've searched from 1947 though to 1958, week by week, and still no sign. I know the man died in 1965, so I reckon at one year per morning I need to go for a maximum of seven more mornings to either find the case, or admit defeat!
On a more positive note, the papers are really interesting and I'm finding all sorts of things that I didn't know about. Anyhow, time I was back knitting, the list is getting longer.........

On the third day

Today is chauffeur day - Phil's having his car serviced, and so needed a lift to work [and back later] Bob's been in Manchester for a couple of days, so I got a good night's knitting yesterday and have managed another knitty finish. This one is for a friend, so no christmas boxes ticked this time ;)

Day two

Ok, not to degenerate into blather too quickly, I have a finish on offer today - managed to finish a little boys jumper for the brother of the little girl who I did the bolero for last week. The colours aven't shown up too well, but it's another box ticked off towards Christmas.

This morning has been spent being a Poppy Person - completely unexpectedly, but a great morning - I was amazed at the way some of the people who stop give you a potted life history at the same time.

So, plugging on tonight with another little jumper, and possibly another finish tomorrow.

NaBloPoMo [1]

So, apparently November is NaBloPoMo National Blog Posting Month, and we're encouraged to blog everyday. As Natalie observed, it should really be International, but we'd better not make a fuss.........
OK, I'll give it a go, but if if descends into total twonk, I will desist. Seems like a good excuse to get lots done, otherwise I won't have anything to talk about. I'm not going to attempt to do daily updates on I went to see the soldiers, but will at least try to keep it up to date.
So, only news of the day, is that the aforementioned Natalie has very kindly offered me a bookcrossing book via Twitter, and I've promised to re-offer it when I've read it. I'll also root outanother book this week as a PIF. Other than that November has started out wet[outside] and sniffly [inside] Hope both improve before tomorrow, I'm due to be out selling poppies all morning..............

Count me in

The Poppy Appeal is in full flow for this year, but they're still very short of volunteers in some areas - even if you can only spare a couple of hours, they'd be delighted to have you volunteer and it could make a tremendous difference in somone's life. The Royal British Legion do fantastic work and like the Tesco man says, "every little helps"