And so it lingers

With great reluctance and pains in my side from coughing so much I visited the GP. I think that we have concluded that this might have been flu and I will just have to wait until I get better. I am grateful that I do not need to get out of bed every morning and go to work. For some years I worked a distance from home and regularly got the 6.02 train - a 9am GP appointment was quite a feat today!

Needless to say, not a lot has been happening I the past few weeks. I have completed 3 scarves and started a fourth - all in the same ( more or less) pattern. I have also completed a baby cardigan that I started some weeks ago but put on hold whilst lacking in concentration. I am quite pleased with this and may alternate scarves with more examples of this pattern. Once I can figure out how to upload photos from the iPad I will do so.

Well, can't figure out how to upload from the iPad so here is one of the scarves.

15 days and counting

Quite unusual to be laid low for such a long time but this virus from hell is showing little sign of disappearance. Days are now merging into weeks and I am trying not to think of all things that have not been done - mostly related to cleaning around the house. It is surprising that tasks usually done on a daily basis don't seem to matter so much when you are feeling poorly. Non hoovered carpets do not seem to get any worse after a couple of days; washing left a little longer doesn't get any dirtier and there are still plenty of clothes to wear; eating ready prepared meals occasionally is not a hardship. The thing that I have really been missing, though, is my knitting. The first few days my hands were shaking and I could not hold the needles. Then I managed a little of a log cabin blanket but ran out of wool. Then I tried some of my works in progress - a little baby jacket in brown bamboo -  but I couldn't concentrate on the pattern. The television was not keeping my attention for very long - although I became fascinated by the US presidential election and even the iPad was a bore. I needed a knitting project to keep me busy and to take my mind off the cough and the subsequent pulled muscle in the back - from the cough. This came from an unexpected source. My eldest daughter asked me to make a scarf for her other half for Christmas. A perfect solution. Nothing too complex, something to knit in front of the TV, no pattern as such to follow. I don't usually like scarves. - a tendency to get bored and thus make them too short! This time, though, a good solution. So good, in fact, that he is going to get 2 scarves as I couldn't decide on the yarn - and it may be three as I like the pattern so much that I would like to see it I some yarn that has been in the stash for some time and I hadn't been able to think of anything to do with it.