Ok, so it didn't take long to determine that writing 50,000 words, in three weeks, with no pre-planning, no plot, and no time was never really going to work. And it's not like I don't have enough excuses, I started a week late, I have a humoungous knitting project to finish for christmas (more of this later), which isn't getting done by itself much to my disapointment, to make matters worse the boiler broke down a week and a bit ago, so sitting still at a laptop really hasn't felt very appealing! It's actually colder inside my house at the moment than outside!

Aside from having a chance to wear lovely thick jumpers and an excuse to wear scarves and mittens inside, having a duff boiler also means we get to have gorgeous coal fires in the fireplace, toast crumpets, and read ghost stories curled up on the sofa with a roaring fire in the grate.

Did I hear someone say marshmallows?

But I haven't been slacking I assure you! I've been sneakily working away at a couple of secret mystery projects. Now as much as I want to show them off like the proud parent of some magnificently gifted child, I can't. Else they wouldn't be secret mystery projects! But I can't resist giving you a little sneak peak of them.

I've also decided I need way more practise using double pointed needles. Damn ladders everywhere! I think we'll all agree knitting is a kind of magic, making something pretty and warm, or practical, or cute out of a ball of fancy string and two sticks has got to be magic. But knitting with DNPS must require some super-magic or ubermagic to get it to work properly. So many of the gorgeous hats and gloves and mittens and things I'm looking to knit are made using DPNs, so I'll need to get some practise in. That'll be my post-christmas task I think - learn to knit properly with DPNs.