The Librarian

Last summer's weather lacks many redeeming features. I don't think I was the only one who decided last April that a summer without sun just isn't . And I swear it has made this summer all the better. I keep on noticing all the simple summer things. Picking a basket of apricots, riding down a (small) rapid in an inner tube, having my cup of tea and christmas cake in a shady spot of the garden. My beach bag is brimming over with bookish goodness. Here's what you'd find if you tipped it out on the picnic blanket:       The latest Frankie and Extracurricular mags       A borrowed copy of series 3 of The Good Word       New albums Sad but True , Carry Me Back , and Wreck and Ruin and an amazing, 'unputdownable' book called Room . Wishing you a year of sunshine, good reading, and plenty of take-a-skip moments (and an outdoor bath too - I cannot recommend them highly enough).

 I have found the perfect company for my knitting projects this week: Lark Rise to Candleford   by Flora Thompson and Cranford   by Elizabeth Gaskell are two of my all-time favourite classic books, so it is pure happiness to snuggle and knit in front of the fire, brew of tea at my side, and watch them brought to screen in these BBC productions.  And thanks for all your enthusiasm about my helmet project...it's all finished and packaged off to it's unsuspecting recipient, and now, fired up with the excitement of accomplishment, I am starting in on another fair isle project, a pair of warm, winter socks.  I heart winter knitting. x Library Girl