Lawn bowling prize money finally spent

I had a very good season  of lawn bowling and even had some prize money from the Leinster-Crumlin week in early August.  I decided to set the money aside and use it for something special.  In late August I had my music week at Termonfeckin – the Irish Recorder and Viols Course.  That was such a good week, I decided that I would use my prize money for the purchase of a bass recorder.  And today the new recorder arrived.

I’m delighted!  We have a big recorder playing weekend coming up and I hope I can play it at some point over the weekend. 

As for knitting news, here is the eccentric blanket, which the other resident photographer in the family has labelled “latest weird rug”.    

  I am using all sorts of bits and pieces from my stash – it is a stash reduction project – in this case…