more doings than musings

1. I Knit Friday was heaps and heaps of fun, and that's including all the times I looked over at Lou and wondered if she was about to fall over (she had/has/probably made worse by going out last night some form of hopefully mild flu). Pictures of the excitement to come, yay!

2. I need chocolate pudding pie. With an almost pitiful desperation. My heart actually pangs at the realisation I have no chocolate pudding pie in my life currently, yet lifts joyously when I remember I need to go cupboard-restocking later and thus might well fill my basket with some of the more central ingredients.

3. My broccoli is sprouting. Pictures of this to come, too, but seriously! I've got real life actual living broccoli in my garden! Container pumpkins may be struggling for dear life, but thus far container broccoli is thriving. Also, I found a ladybird clinging to my doorway this morning after I came back from No. 4 and set it to work on the sudden hordes of grey aphids that have descended upon my cabbage.

4. This morning, to my great and soul-buoying delight, I discovered I can run and lose track of time. AT THE SAME TIME! I usually begin with a 3-minute warm-up run before settling into a 3 min:90 sec run:walk rhythm. This morning, accompanied by Ms Tikabelle, who announced No. 5, I looked at the clock on my iPod and discovered I'd been warming up for just over 4 minutes! And then it happened again! I walked 90 seconds and began running and over 4 minutes later looked at my clock. I kept this up for the rest of Gives Good Knit and about half of the geocaching episode of How Stuff Works before my cool-down walk.

I'm a bit worried that I might have overworked myself, but actually I almost felt like I was cutting the run short when I began the cool-down. Hopefully I'm right and I won't wake up tomorrow and curse my every move.

5. Gives Good Knit and Loumms (of London) are hooking up for a KAL! It's a first for us both, which makes it doubly exciting! What are we KALing? The Norfolk Ramblers pattern, pattern 17 of the Loumms Year of Socks, yay!* All the details can be heard on Ep.13 of Gives Good Knit and we'll be putting together a post of our celebratory antics over at Loumms in the next day or so.

* If you could read that bit again with Kermit arms of ecstatic glee flailing above your head, you'll be just about where I was when Tika first approached me about this. Hee!!

6. Matthew has been trying to unblock our kitchen drain since mid yesterday afternoon. He found a chopstick (a chopstick!) in the U-bend and a revolting amount of gunk, but it seems to be flowing even worse since he removed it (the chopstick -- the chopstick!). Any suggestions for non-toxic methods of drain-deblocking?

Comments

[Fredi, London]

I made the chocolate pudding pie. The best thing about it was the fact it combined my three favourite things. The worst thing about it was having to share it. It is seriously good. No, it's better than that, it's seriously good - with a crust.

[Leanna]

a chopstick??!

[Tiffani Anderson]

Try a 2 litre of Coca Cola, pour the whole thing down the drain and let it work for a while. Then pour a whole kettle of boiling water down the drain. If that doesn't work let it dry as much as you can and put baking soda(do you call it sodium bicarbonate?) in the drain and then pour in vinegar. Let it work until it stops bubbling and pour a kettle of boiling water down the drain. Keep adding the boiling water, it should help unblock the drain.
Good luck!