Hello dear readers,
oh yes, I’m still alive. Several things happend since my last entry, but they were not very related to knitting.
Again we were in Catalonia in June, but this year it was not so nice as the year before. Several little queries and it was hot (no surprise, last year it was the same) but also humid (which is very unusual as it seems). This combination is not ours and for me that meant that I got a persistant cold.
Back in Germany we were happy to be able to take a deep breath (and to sleep very well), then the summer arrived here, too. So I spent many hours on my balcony, sometimes into the late evening. In Catalonia I continued two (new pairs…) of socks, but then I came back to the bocks and this is still going on.
So I detected the series about the solicitor Matthew Sharlake, taking place in the era of Henry VIII in England and I like it very much. Then there were several books of authors you will not now, as for example Rebecca Gablé writes excellent books about the English Middle Ages, but she is German and her books are not translated into English.
At the moment I’m reading ‘London’ from Edward Rutherfurd. As I love London and English History (especially till around the end of the Middle Ages) the book is absolute fascinating, and it is so much fun, to detect where the buildings or areas of today came from.
But since it’s a bit fresher outside (today it rained the whole afternoon), I knitted again. The rainbow shawl is growing and in the train I knit the socks.
In the next days I have again many nice photos for you. Some impressions of Catalonia (of course there were also nice things) and I visited once again my friend Birgitta in Hannover and made some photos there, too.
