My little knitted elephant

I have finally finished my little elephant. One of little cotton rabies clever designs. Look up her website and if you are a knitter there are lots of treasures there. Easily followed and knitted flat and then sewn up. Even my arthritic managed it, slowly. The one with her dress on she is cuddling up to two of the Jill Maas pattern birds. Now to have a go at the Fox. I have ,ade her nears and rabbits before.very cold this morning but I don't think we had a frost, about 2 degrees by the back door. We had a longer walk this morning, a lower tide and no one on the beach so we could walk further. Overcast but a bit of welcome sun.

Not happy

It is a long week end and the town is full of people but finding some where to walk has not been easy. I think it is all very well these people coming down, and going to demonstrations and not sue what the outcome will be. I feel sad and frustrated. We have managed some walks but on the whole only short ones. We have seen whales and that is lovely but I feel not myself. It has been so cold although we have had some sun but it gets dark so early.I want to see family, I want to sit and drink wine and chat with friends. If this virus gets going again and it may, how long will this be going on for. Shouldnt feel like this but every so often I do. I am knitting, have just finished a tiny elephant and now her dress. Not quite done but although my fingers make me slow these days and I cant see terribly well it has been fun. Photos when I have finally finished the dress, needs sewing up.So th3re is my moan for the day. A word of advice, dont get old.

Winter

Photos from the last day or so. Our walk this morning was ok but the tide was high and we had to get up a bank on the fordune and go across instead of going back along the beach. Yesterday morning we were caught in a heavy rain storm, with to add insult to injury hail. Back to the car soaked and very cold. In the late afternoon yesterday we went along to the Kings beach car park, and it poured just as we arrived. I had taken the wrong wet weather gear so I didnt walk but John had a short one. It is cold, wet and windy, although some sun this morning then the odd shower of rain again. Just when I thought the towels were dry another burst of rain. I suppose they will dry eventually. I like winter but I dont much like getting wet and cold. I am still knitting my little elephant, still have one and a half arms to do and his/her tail. Then to think about clothes I love doing these Little cotton Rabbit knits, they are small and relatively simple. They get given away very quickly.

John dug the sweet potatoes yesterday. Some were much larger than expected! I do try not to complain but over the last few days I have hardly been able to move. I had forgotten how much cold weather affects m joints. Our beach walk this morning was more like a scrabble than a walk. It has been cold and overcast all day with the occasional shower of rain. I have struggled with getting the trunk right on my little knitted elephant but I think I have it now. The ears are next. I have a large casserole on in the oven, I like to get a casserole on early these days as if I leave making them too late I can't stand for long. Lots of veg in this one and some meat but not a huge amount. Max the dog is telling me he needs to be fed. He can't get the fact that we have stopped daylight saving and thinks 3 not 4 is feed time. Better do the feeds. Just glad in this cold weather that I no longer have ponies to feed, although I do miss them.

Morning walk

It was freezing cold. We collected some nice shells, 2 cowries and a large cone with a few others. The tides have been all over the place but we had a reasonable tide line and the sea weed wasnt as bad as it has been and we managed quite a long walk after several days of very short ones. I am knitting a sweet little elephant from one of Julie of Little cotton rabbits lovely collection. I needed to do something else with my fingers which are getting very stiff. So no desire to go for a 2nd walk and something a bit different to do. Sometimes I think I am going a bit stir crazy.

Over to Parsons beach.

A very cold and damp day, when we drove over to Parsons the car said 13, 12, 11, 10 degrees and in reverse on the way home. Lovely to be out, the beach was looking fantastic, one brave surfer and a couple of fishermen. The Pages (islands) and Kangaroo Island stood out well but not well enough for my little camera. We stopped by the side of the road on the way home for some photos of the scrub, some magnificent moss,lovely red correa and just a general view of the coastal scrub. I have to confess we havent done a lot today, were up late for us and I am sewing a bit more on my tea towel for India's class. Thinking about getting an elephant pattern from Little Cotton Rabbits to knit, thinking as we have spent a bit of money this month.

Cold and damp with big seas.

Only a short beach walk today, we managed it between showers and it has been pretty damp all day so that was the only walk today. I am quite pleased as this weather makes me ache. I have finished off the little book I am making, it is not terribly good but a sample for another in the future. These succulents are flowering at the moment, I love the starfish shaped flowers but not the smell. They are a stapelia species. Most annoyed as I cant find where I have put a book of knitted animals, I know it is somewhere. I have also spent a bit of time, while looking for that book at a journal I did when we were on a dairy trip to Califoria in 2008 I could never do that now, we seemed to walk miles. and another workbook done in a class with Jean Littlejohn in 2005, what fun that was. I could do with a bit more of that get up and go now. I seem so slow now. Enjoying my walks though they are so much shorter.