Africankelli suggested more pictures from my garden and who am I to deny her?

The bathroom fern has gone from this:

to this:

which makes me very happy.

Now if the other bulges could turn into more healthy stems… *fingers crossed* but either way, it is still alive and the two new stems have fully unfurled, and are thick and strong. Yay!

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Last weekend W and I did our first lot of allotment planting.
Everything is planted in trays which are laid out in front of our
balcony windows, because there isn’t room for a green house.

Last week I was at my mum’s, helping out because she had her second knee replacement (hence not posting here – though i did finish some socks, which i will post about later…)

When I got back, these are the plants that had started to properly sprout.

These are beetroot:

These are Rubine Brussel Sprouts:

and these are Gillia Twilight (flowers to go on the balcony.)

In other news W’s mum and D popped round this morning and brought Helibor from her back garden.

Aren’t they lovely?

Right – I’ll be back soon with sock pictures, and generally making a bit more noise, now that i’m back home. 🙂

Everything is starting to grow. The rosebush that snakes out from behind our recycling is bursting out of it’s buds, and uncurling new leaves.

The Honeysuckle that straddles our fence has fresh green growth from twigs I thought were dead.

(I saw these during my shower this morning… i think it made my day. 🙂

Best of all, the fern in our bathroom that i thought was dying, and have been fussing over for the last month, has started to unfurl new arms. Every day it opens up a little more.

Spring is on it’s way.  🙂

It’s 7pm. The closing ceremony finishes on Eurosport at 9.30pm, but I can tell you now I’m not going to get gold.

I’m pretty close. I’m pretty much one sock down. I mean it’s started, but i’ve not even finished on the ribbing.

But I’m cool with that. I could have stayed home last night, and then got up early this morning, and carried on knitting. In fact if I’d done that I would have finished by now. But instead my sister came over and we went, with W, to our favourite club night, stayed out dancing till 2am then came home for chipvan chips and cheese and episodes of How I Met Your Mother. And this morning we chatted, I got her advice about the secret project, and then we made Calzones from scratch.

Now she’s back home, and I’m utterly wiped. In fact I’m probably going to go to bed pretty soon since there is lots to do tomorrow.

I’m glad I entered the knitting olympics. If anyone asks I say I did it for the experience so that I could come back in 2010 and get gold. 😉

I’ll probably get the sock done in the next couple of days, since i really want to get it finished for W, and so that I can start on a fresh new project or two. I might play around with that cashmere sock yarn I bought, or the stuff I dyed. Anyways as soon as it’s done I’ll post pictures.

Congratuations to everyone who got gold! You did good. 🙂