Gearing Up for Visitors

We've been enjoying having a friend visit who taught with us in Taiwan. She's my youngest daughter's Godmother and although we've talked on the phone, we haven't seen her since she visited us in Brazil... so it's been a long time. She was married this summer, so I'm trying to get used to a new last name. I never changed mine, so it always seems to throw me off when I have call my friends by a different name. I still look my friend Nancy up under her old name, and my friend Laurie, and my friend Liz... the list goes on.

This past weekend was great to have visitors. The weather was terrific and we were able to visit the South Bank, watch buskers, and just people watch in general. It's always fairly crowded on a nice day, but I've certainly seen it worse. I really enjoyed the painting that you see on the left. The woman has been painting it for the past three weeks. I don't think my back could handle sitting that way for three weeks... Even caught the last performance of the National Theatre's Watch This Space season. I'll definitely look for it again in next summer.

October is filled with guests... three families booked so far. Family and friends. No overlap, but we will have one group leave and the next group come later the same day. I'm just worried about getting the sheets washed :)

So my knitting... I started a cape for the pillow girl's little brother. It's out of the same blue wool my mother-in-law gave me. It was given it by their next door neighbor when his wife died. It's old (can tell from the label), but it's certainly knitting up some nice projects. I have cape boy's initial ("E") on the back and I'm trying to knit a big Harry Potter lightning bolt through it. I botched it up a bit at the tip, but think it should work out eventually. I am proud of the way the back looks. I've been diligent about my stranded color work so it's not a horrid mess in the back. I've done the horrid mess thing in the past, but it didn't seem to matter because I was felting and lining the bag that I did it on. I'll provide a picture later.

Here's me knitting in an over-priced pub along the Thames. You know it's over priced when you order tap water and only one entrée for three to share :)