Wednesday Catch up

 Today I have been to my GP Practice for the Covid 19 jab. All very professional and well policed. Before you are even let through the doors they take your temperature and you are given relevant paperwork covering the injection you are to have and then they take you through to a funneling system;

There was only I and another there waiting. You go through they check they have the right person with the right details give you the injection which I did not feel and then you are given a card and an egg timer. Yes - I am not joking an egg-timer. It is set as you leave the room from the injection. At our GP Practice they have added in the extra precaution of a 15 minute waiting time just after the jab to make sure that there are no imminent side effects and if there are then there is someone professional to deal with things pronto. I was then escorted into a separate waiting room until my egg timer pinged (which meant I was cooked) and I could leave the premises. I had the Pfizer jab. Must say extremely well organised and sorted. Did not hurt, and only stung a little on withdrawal. I opted to have my injection in my left arm as I am right hand dominant and still wanted to be able to get on with things in case of any reaction.

Arm is a little stiff surrounding the injection site but otherwise everything is more than okay. I am lucky in that I have been able to have the injection probably because it is not a live virus being injected into our systems with the auto immune issues I have.

After coming back from the surgery I had a late lunch only some soup and some bread and butter but I was very cold by the time we got in as it was chilly outside and that soon warmed me up.

Last night I managed to finish the last of the coloured green and white squares for my blanket/throw worked in green and white. I just had enough wool (of the green) to work the 60 squares. I now need to neaten off each individual square and then work another row of white around each one. Once that is all done I will be able to work out how many white squares I will need to work to finish it off. Once they are worked, I can then crochet them together and then do a further border probably in double crochet (a nice thick border) to finish it off. So am chuffed with progress so far on this front.

I managed to drop a new ball of the white wool in the dogs drinking bowl the other night and ended up putting it in the washing machine (as you do) to get it nice and clean again (which it did). Only trouble was the wool was a bit like spaghetti junction, a spider's web and in a right taffle. It took me a good couple of hours and quite a bit of patience but I eventually managed to retrieve it all.

To this, so I did not do too badly with it.

OH did comment that he thought I was a little mad and that I should just of chucked it but to me that was admitting defeat and besides I had paid out good money for that there wool I was not wasting any of it. If I am starting to work a scrap blanket with little bits and bobs of wool left over from all sorts of other sources why would I scrap a tiny bit that is needed for this particular blanket.

The white squares I am going to work in the new wool and the wool that I have rescued will go towards crocheting the squares together once all the new white ones are worked.

The nights are getting a bit lighter than they were and at 5:00pm now the sky is still light, so I am looking forward more and more to the light. This winter I seem to have done an awful lot of sleeping and I have been more like a doormouse than anything else. I am hoping that as we move into spring that my energy levels will increase again as I have so much that I want to do both in the garden, in the house and once we are allowed to travel a bit more again. Early days must pace myself more and start to get more focused than I have been.

Right upwards and onwards.

Take care, keep safe and remember one day at a time.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

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