Diagnosis Christmas!

Well I’ve not been too well this past week so I apologise if the posts have seemed a tad half hearted. I’ve had some strange combinations of sinus pressure, earaches, jaw aches and raised glands.
The doctor says it’s stress related and showing up because I’m run down and not sleeping so good.
I say….what have I got to stress about??
Christmas sneaking up behind me? Travel plans not coming together? Being unemployed? Sending out a eleventy million Christmas cards? Never doing any study? Not having enough hours in the day? Family in Hospital? Turkeys that might not fit in the oven? Never seeing the sun again?

HA…I laugh at your diagnosis of stress………

No really it’s not so bad...for Christmas anyway. I think the sudden onslaught of winter and Christmas at the same time has caught a lot of people by surprise this year and the shops are heaving and scary with desperate people carrying obscene amounts of bags. Normally I’m done my shopping by now (Ok I think one year I was done early and I’ve never managed it again but like to think that that year was normal!) but this year I still have a few things to get and I’m too scared to venture out. Friday I came home early by way of the shopping zone and although it was only a weekday it looked like Saturday lunchtime.
It’s worse because I know I have to go out there next Saturday. I daren’t leave it any later...the craziness brings back too many memories of working retail in London over Christmas and the sales. Shudder…

On the weekend I managed to drum up the energy to go to the Food and Drink Fair at Ardingly. We went last year and got the best ham we’ve ever had and the same people were there this year as well. Plus the lovely wines, cheeses, sausages and pies that we got...it might be stressful but this Christmas is set to be a very yummy one too!

I finally got around to taking some pictures of the beanie (and my head) I recently finished. I didn't realise it came out so yellow. You can see the lovely self stripyness but unfortunately you can't feel the gorgeous softness of it!! It's Rowan Tapestry...in the Antique colourway I think.

Ok it's only a beanie...but it's my first beanie and I'm rather proud of it!
Now I just have to knit one for myself!!