Kate Pullen

Kate Pullen

Spanish Classes

We went to enrol on the Spanish classes last week. As if to demonstrate our need for classes, we went in and asked where we needed to go to enrol and promptly got taken up to the roof top. I…

Loom

Having sleyed my heddles, and threaded the reed, as I started beaming the warp ready for cranking and found that I had twisted warps. So I had to undo the whole lot and start again. What I have learned so…

Getting back to normal

The one thing that has had to give over the last fortnight has been our walks. We went out yesterday for the first time for a couple of weeks and petal fell in the water fountain which made us wonder…

Capelet

My capelet design has appeared in Interweave Crochet magazine. Pic bottom right www.interweavecrochet.com. I still think it is cow pat brown and that it was modeled on a stick insect…

Compliment or Insult

Ian made a delicious paella last night. Gently sauteeing the onion and garlic until it was a soft paste, adding vegetables and olive oil, frying the rice and adding it all together with saffron in the paella pan with a…

Little Helper

I’m quite busy at the moment, this means spending a lot of time at the computer. Luckily I have a little helper who keeps tapping the cursor for me.

New Supermarket

A new supermarket has opened in llerena. It is called Plus and is a German chain I think, with roots in eastern Europe. I say that because the languages on the packs of food include polish, hungarian, rumanian… This is…

… and then there were two

Two more kittens went last night so the sign came down and we are keeping Guncs and Blackbeard. In case there was any doubt about how they all get on, in the pic is Schnukes, Dookes with Guncs cuddled up…

Loom / Loon

I am a little worried about Ian. I’ve been trying to discuss with him the fact that what we really need is a Loom. He kept replying that we already had one loon and that was enough. It must be…