everyday life

green on green

Found matching green colours in my alpaca- left-over-bag. Simple stockinette knitting while you are trying to get well. A shawl, of course. Stripes - 4 rows main colour, 4 rows contrasting colour. Soothing. Well known pattern. Makes me happy. Hopefully make me well enough to go to work any time soon.

So, this is how far I got this afternoon while watching 2 episodes (season one) of Foyle's War. A perfect series to knit while watching. UK, during the WWII and lots of knitted sweaters and vests worn by the actors.

tv-series (on dvd:s) & knitting

Mostly of my knitting happens in my sofa in front of the TV watching tv-series, some "live" and some via DVD:s. This autumn I have been watching 3 TV series on DVD.

1) November 3rd is the premiere of the 3rd series of Downton Abbey on Swedish SVT1 - so I have been watching 2 episodes each Saturday morning to recap, since September 8,  of seasons 1 & 2. I have 2 episodes left to see - last episode of season 2 and the Christmas special. So that's next Saturday!I have of course seen these series before on TV, but I wanted to recap before the 3rd series begun.

(got the series for my birthday)

2) The second series I have been watching is The West Wing. Late Friday evening I ended series 1 and want to start series 2. :-) Of course I saw this series on TV and I still think it's one of the best series! And I really like to watch a TV series on DVD and see 3-4 ep at a time.

The West Wing is called Vita Huset in Sweden

3) The third TV series that I have watched recently is the BBC drama Cranford. Set in 1840s it's a good old british costume drama.This one I'd missed on TV - but saw 2 ep at a friends house and wanted more!

Next up? Continue to watch West Wing. But there are plenty of TV series on DVD waiting to been seen! On my waiting list I have the 3rd series of The House of Eliott, season 5 & 6 of the Sopranos.

in progress, two

On Friday I was at the annual Craft fair and I came home with 3 hanks of Koigu + a pattern of half mittens. So on Saturday I began knit.

Koigu is lovely. The patterns is easy, so this is one of my new TV/DVD knitting project.

Did this while watching an episode of Homeland (season 2). One of the series I follow this season.

101010

For weeks and weeks I have living with most of my clothes outside my walk-in-closet. I discovered, what I thought, a water leak, before midsummer. I called my super and he did some checking and called in other guys. Finally they discovered the ventilation from my bathroom stood still, and the humidity and heat from my bathroom had started to condensed inside in my walk-in-closet (those are wall to wall of each other). So my walk-in needed to dry out and they needed to fix the ventilation.  Nothing of my clothes and things were damaged in this, but they smelled like an old basement.

So during all this I started to go through  and wash all my clothes  and finally deciding what to keep and what to loose. Yesterday I gave 2 bags with clothes to my favorite charity organisation Stockholms Stadsmission, and today I managed to get another bag filled with more clothes to loose. I had planed to do this for ages, and now was the right time, when everything was out of the closet. This weekend I have started to put back clothes in my walk-in and suddenly I have room for new clothes in my walk-in - it was basically overloaded with clothes.  And with clothes I haven't been wearing for years and years.

Between all laundry to do and cleaning I have dedicated every Sunday to see the series of River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: So far I have seen: Escape to River Cottage, Return to River Cottage and River Cottage Forever. And while watching on my computer, knit!

 
Lately I have been knitting on a mistake rib scarf to myself. An autumn is not complete without a new scarf, right? ;-)

Now, I need to go back to fix my walk-in! Have a great Sunday!

er, the tv series, 1994-2009

So this evening it all ends. After 331 episodes and 16 years it's time to say goodbye! The final ep is here. This TV-series had been my favorite, from episode 1. And I'm gonna miss it! The show survived when Clooney left, when Anthony Edwards left, when Noah Wylie left. And continued with new doctors and nurses. I loved Dr Ross, Nurse Hathaway, Dr Greene, Dr Carter, Dr Kovas, Dr Lockhart, Dr Rasgotra, Dr Barnett and Dr Gates. I learned to love Dr Pratt, Dr Weaver, Dr Romano, Dr Morris and Dr Brenner. I cried a lot when Dr Greene died and when Dr Pratt died. And the sudden death of Lucy Knight was a shocker. There as been love, break ups, heart breaks, deaths, births - life of the nurses, doctors and desk clerks at the County General in Chicago.

And all the great guest stars: Sally Field, Forrest Whittaker, Alan Alda, Red Buttons, Ray Liotta, Ewan McGregor, William H Macy, Don Cheadle, James Cromwell and Stanley Tucci.

Well, it's time to say goodbye and start collect the series on DVD!

I will miss you all!

take two

Yesterday I started a new project. I have been thinking of knitting a feather and fan scarf/stole for ages, and last night I started. I found a pattern on Stickas website and I had the yarn. The pattern is for a thin wool yarn and I had a bit ticker yarn, so I choose needles 4.5 mm instead for 3.0 mm as the pattern said, but I realize pretty quick I needed to frog it and change to bigger needles. So I frog it this morning and started over with needles 6.0 mm and it outcome was much better.

The new, improved Old Shale - take two.

So tonight I have been sitting in my sofa, knitting on the Old Shale and watching 2 episodes of The Tudors (season 1). I bought the DVD at Heathrow, while waiting for my flight home from London. And I just love it. The series has just begun on Swedish television, but I'm happy I bought the dvd. It's more fun to see a couple of episodes and enjoy the story and the intrigues at the Royal Court and watch the lovely dresses. And Henry VIII is hot. Have you seen it?

Back to my knitting now!

photos

In my work as an archivist I handle photo's everyday. I'm photo archivist. My main work is to make our big photo collection avalible on the internet, in a big database for you to browse.

It makes me happy, when I by chance, on Saturday evening saw the beginning of a fantastic BBC-series, about the french banker Albert Kahn and his amazing photo archive. The Wonderful World Of Albert Kahn. I was stunned to see these amazing photographs taken between 1908-1930, with scenes from over 50 countries, in colour! For those of you interested in photo's and can see Swedish televion and has the Kunskapskanalen, you can see the first episode again Friday 25, at 7 pm and the second episode at Saturday 26, at 10 pm (really bad hours both days, but you can always record it and see it later).

Skyline - N.Y.C.: Woolworth Bldg., Singer Bldg., Bankers Trust Bldg. (LOC)

(photo from the Library of Congress)

And have you Americans (and the rest of you) notice, that you can see The Library Of Congress photo's on Flickr? Over 3.000 photo's both in colour and black/white! So fun to look at!

the last dinner?

The last episode is here, and starts now. The last episode of the Sopranos. How will it end? Will Tony get wacked or does he survive? In one hour I know!

What did you think of the last ep? I would love to you your feelings about it!

early bird

Woke up at 4 am this morning and had hopes to get back to sleep, but 45 minutes later I stood up and started my day. So here I am, I have made breakfast and I will watch last nights episode of Grey's Anatomy. I hope you had a better sleep an I. The past weeks I have been a trouble sleeper and it ain't fun. What do you do when you have trouble with your sleep? I trying to stay away from my sleeping pills, but in the end, I'll take some to get some sleep.

By the way, we got some good news on Tuesday at work. There are some money left to employ Mon to the end of the year! YAY! So, I'm no hurry to get the socks finished to Friday. She will get them on Monday, to celebrate her "new" job...

Back to my breakfast and McDreamy.

the weekend

The weekend is almost over and I had a great weekend. There where no rain, just sun. I have been taking care of myself, after a busy week, with good food, long walks in the sun (the leaves has start to turn), reading, surfing and listen to music (still a lot of Neko Case and Ryan Adams). While on the internet I have spent a lot of time on Facebook. Yepp, me too. And I have found some of you there.. As Ravelry, it's addicted!

And I have started a new sock project. I'm knitting a pair of Raggsockor (thick winter socks). A going-away gift to one of my colleauges, who's leaving in the end of the week. It's a bit sad, beacuse, we would love to keep her, but we have no money, to keep her going. This is the worst in the museum/archive business. There is no money to employ people, just for a short time. A couple of months here and there. (In this case, we actually got money for as long as 1 1/2 year.) It sucks, it really sucks! I know - I had over 10  years of these short employment, before I got my tenure 2005.

My plans for this evening is to knit and watch this weeks episode of The Sopranos! We're in mid of the last season! As always, HBO rocks!