Katy, Liette and I are doing a Booga Bag Knit-A-Long - yesterday we met in the pub for some knitting and dessert. This has been a long awaited project - Katy had to come back from school, I had to get married, Liette had to find her needles - and now that we’re started we are just whippingalong. After just one evening of knitting (and a few minutes after we finished winding all of Katy and Liette’s new yarn on Monday) all three of us are finished the bottom of the bag and starting to work our way up the sides. The yarn is Noro Kurayon (or Silk Garden in Liette’s case) and the long colour changes make knitting it up really fun. We’re planning to meet again next Wednesday to knit some more - we might be half way finished by then!

(Did you notice how their faces are mostly still for the photo but their hands kept moving?)

Due to the particularly fine weather (and the fact that we had all our plant pots and a very dirty barbeque in our dinning room because our landlord wanted to paint the balcony) our tea party became a picnic. We packed up a couple of blankets, napkins, sandwiches, cookies and juice and headed down to the park by the lake.

It was a hot day but the breeze off the lake was lovely - both for cooling us off and you showing off the wonderfully billowy dresses everyone was wearing. I would like to speak to the wonder that is cotton and say that, despite my several layers of chemise, stays, petticoat and gown, I didn’t seem to feel the heat any more than anyone else.

We got a few looks from people going by the park but by far the best reaction was someone out in her garden along our walk home. She was standing in the middle of the yard, hose in hand, starting at our little procession up the road. I nearly called out a ‘hello’ but wasn’t quite sure what reaction I’d get. We got out my collection of Chinese fans when we got back to the apartment (no wind inside) and everyone sat down to watch Emma and have a cool glass of water.

I’ve set up a photo gallery showing our afternoon in the park.