Two little dickie birds
Chapter two is finished, hoorah! On Monday I had dyed some combed top* using Kool Aid** which I decided I could not spin until I'd finish chapter two. So finishing chapter two has been hell. But worth it! I've spun half tonight and it looks lovely. Sadly no photos, since Matthew is away with the camera.
This means no photos of the jay doing acrobatics in the garden yesterday, or tonight's exploding Yorkshire Puddings (well, they just got reeeeeeeeeeeally big. Really big. Impressively big. Photo-worthy big). Instead I shall spend the week digging through the photos I've taken in the past and not got round to sharing.
So:
I took this picture back in June, after Matthew pointed them out to me. Admittedly, it looks like a sparrow and a blackbird, but we're pretty sure it's actually a mummy blackbird taking her baby blackbird out for a stroll. Awwwwwwwwww...
* Note to Mancunians: While it is also 'great', 'top' is used here as the technical name for a long wad of combed fleece used for spinning
** Note to all British people including Mancs: Kool Aid is an American powdered drink mix that, due to it's wonderful ingredients, can be used as a colour-fast dye with no dye-fixers needed. I have to say I am unsurprised at the rising levels of kids in North America diagnosed with ADHD, if this stuff is common: I felt hyperactive just smelling the sealed packages, never mind adding A WHOLE CUP of sugar and drinking it! E-number-licious!
This means no photos of the jay doing acrobatics in the garden yesterday, or tonight's exploding Yorkshire Puddings (well, they just got reeeeeeeeeeeally big. Really big. Impressively big. Photo-worthy big). Instead I shall spend the week digging through the photos I've taken in the past and not got round to sharing.
So:
I took this picture back in June, after Matthew pointed them out to me. Admittedly, it looks like a sparrow and a blackbird, but we're pretty sure it's actually a mummy blackbird taking her baby blackbird out for a stroll. Awwwwwwwwww...
* Note to Mancunians: While it is also 'great', 'top' is used here as the technical name for a long wad of combed fleece used for spinning
** Note to all British people including Mancs: Kool Aid is an American powdered drink mix that, due to it's wonderful ingredients, can be used as a colour-fast dye with no dye-fixers needed. I have to say I am unsurprised at the rising levels of kids in North America diagnosed with ADHD, if this stuff is common: I felt hyperactive just smelling the sealed packages, never mind adding A WHOLE CUP of sugar and drinking it! E-number-licious!
posted by DMK @ 9:53 PM
2 Comments:
At 10:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
We had a powdered drink like that in the States in the 80's and the plastic containers are still dyed orange.........
Can tell you really are doing your dissertation cos of all footnotes on blog!
At 10:21 PM,
DMK said…
Worst thing about the Kool Aid is that I paid approximately $1 per sachet... and then discovered it's only about $0.10 in the US. Next time I'm ordering straight from the States... (still haven't plucked up the courage to drink any; a) are you kidding, it's $1 a sachet and I need it for wool! and b) I don't think we have that much sugar).
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