lack of posts

Sorry about lack of posts, everytime i am spending more than 10 minutes on blogger it is freezing and i lose what i am doing. sorting out asap.

Oh No, Not again...

I am not complete crochet-a-holic. Mainly because it is easier to do without tilting my head forward than knitting at the moment that is a big problem. Still not great but practice, practice, pratice. And trust me, i am.

Started Trying to use the Elann Sonata solid that i recieved from my Secret Pal to knit with. I HATED IT, i thought my fingers were going to be sawn off with it running through my fingers. So put it down to start on my first 'proper' crochet project, Got past the first few rows and it became obvious the yarn i was using just wasn't stiff enough to support the structure of the bag. So frogged it. And in a moment of inspiration used the Sonata instead, Brilliant, i may hate knitting with this stuff but of my i love crocheting with it. makes a lovely stiff fabric and gorgeous definition. It looks amazing. Unfortunatly my 300 pound digital camra decided to break two weeks outside the warrenty so no camra at present. (Someone really doesn't like me at the minute!) I will do my best to get some published as and when i can. Although if anyone can tell me why i love crocheting but hate knitting with this stuff let me know.

Not knitting

Ok since my car accident and not being able to arch my neck therefore unable to knit i have been a little slack getting back into it. So just to enthuse you all i haven't knit at all this weekend, I have been at a bike rally called 'Bum in the Mud' still no DX but wouldn't be able to ride her anyway, had a great time and got burnt and spent saturday pm/sunday am promptly being sick and dizzy and generally crap. First outing since transam died and i got sunstroke. YAY for me. Seriously, if it's not one thing it's another at the moment. Luckily it's not too severe.
Am now going to look at patterns for a tank top or jumper. will let you know what i decide.

I'll learn to crochet if it kills me.......

That's what i have been saying for about a year, i have tried, but like the socks to no avail. Well i was on knitting pattern central and accidently clicked to go to the sister site crochet pattern central, and thought 'well while i'm here, may as well look.' Clicked on techniques and suddenly something occured to me. although i knit like everyone else and can do most things normally i am actually left handed. Saw instructions on how to crochet left handed....and i'm off. I am soooooo very proud of myself, will follow with pics. Still computer is not working, boo hoo. Have single crochet and (uk) double crochet down, half double looks, well, wrong so will have to practise but i am soooo proud of myself i look like a cheshire cat!

Earth's Children

Ok whilst i haven't been able to knit i have been reading a series of books called the Earth's Children Series by Jean Auel. The first book in the series is clan of the cave bear

Amazon.co.uk Review
'The Clan of the Cave Bear is the start of Jean M Auel's epic Earth's Children series. When her parents are killed by an earthquake, five-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, has little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others". Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.'

So far there are 5 books in print with the 6th presently being written. i am now reading the 3rd, The mammoth hunters and have to say i am hooked. They are so well written and, if like me you love a good book, it's one that you really do get right into the heart of. Also knitted a book mark especially for these books, will do a show and tell when can get camera hooked back up to the computer.

On the knitting front i started another sock (See sock saga below) and guess what, no such luck of too small, still with a guage of 8 spi and 72 stitches it's too bl**dy big, i give up, socks are not for me. so will knit a 6-12 mth baby sweater for antonia. I hate socks.

Moan

OK maybe it is just me, but i am really getting sick of people who have something wrong with them using it as an excuse for everything, now this is coming from personal experience, i have a very rare condition called Stiff persons syndrome (yes, i laughed too the first time i was told.) Basically i spend around 4-6 months a year in a wheelchair, i am, like alot of people with various conditions, constantly in some form of pain, But i still run a massive hot rod and custom car club, have a full-time job, ok it's not one i really like or what i trained for but i do it, and manage to have a full life by any ones standard, since being diagnosed i now know this is progressive and incurable and i will in the future be permanently wheelchair bound and eventually i may be unable to do anything for myself, so what did i do, thought right i always said i want to rode a motorbike so i will, and now can. I am building a car to go drag racing in, doing all the work involved myself by modifying a few tools and things so i can do it myself, ok i can't lift or such things but where there's a will there's a way, i use pulleys and cranes instead. I also have built a frame which when i am really, really bad i can haul myself in and out of the car myself. Now another part of my condition is depression, so yes i have snappy days and down days but there i am lucky in that i have some great friends who pull me through but having so much to do actually means i can't stop and go woe is me. Now i except that not everyone is like this, some are not as strong as i am mentally, i am a fighter, but still when i get 'My whatever is playing up and i can't whatever', balls is what i say, can't is a state of mind. I have someone i am talking to on the net who hasn't spoken to me because there condition is playing up, i know what it is and what it entails but still if with whiplash and concussion and my SPS playing up and no computer at home, i can go to a friends to make sure i am keeping up to date with things, someone else can go onto there computer and say look this is the situation, not hugely talkative at the moment but give me a couple of days I'll get back to you. It's not hard. Sorry needed a rant because people like this really are a waste i just want to shake them and say what are you doing with your life? Sure i shall get some comments about this but hey it's my blog, and if you don't like it that's your problem.

Ok rant finished normal service will resume shortly.

Movies

Found this over on bulldog knits and thought it looked quite fun.

1)Name a movie you've seen more than 10 times.
Queen of the Damned. Oh how divine Stuart Townsend looks in this film.

2)Name a movie you've seen multiple time in the theatre
Disneys Cars

3)Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie
Nicolas Cage

4)Name an actor that would make you less likely too see a movie
Jennifer Anniston, she so cannot act for buttons

5)Name a movie you can and do quote from
American Graffiti

6)Name a musical in which you know all the lyrics to all the songs
I don't

7)Name a movie you have been known to sing along to
The great escape (well hum i guess)

8)Name a movie you would recommend everyone see
Bullitt with Steve McQueen or Zulu with Micheal Caine

9)Name a movie you own
All thoose listed above

10) Name an actor that launched his/her career in another medium but who suprised you with his/her scting ability
Vinny Jones

11)Have you ever seen a movie at a drive in? If so, what?
Don't have drive-ins in the UK

12)Ever made out in a movie?
Not in the theatre

13)Name a movie you keep meaning to see but you just haven't got round to yet
Jet Li Hero

14)Ever walked out of a movie?
Yes

15)Name a movie that made you cry in the theatre
We were soldiers

16)Popcorn?
Sometimes

17)How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)?
Very rarely, mainly due to working hours

18)What's the last movie you saw in the theatre?
Fast and the furious 3 Tokyo drift

19)What's your favorite/prefered genre of movie?
action/war

20)What's the first movie you remember seeing in the theatre?
Transformers the movie (on a kids day)

21)What movie do you wish you'd never seen?
Phonebooth

22)What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed?
The Cell

23)What is the scariest movie you've seen?
The ring (japanese original version)

24)What's the funniest movie you've seen?
Jay and silent Bob strike back