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July 31, 2006

Well, it was a rather hectic weekend again!
Lets start with Saturday sky. This is the pic I took first thing in the morning.

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Yet another perfect Sydney winter morning, I know.
Later in the day, we headed down to Stitch n Bitch, but more on that in a bit. However, we found prime material for Saturday Sky!

See them? The pic was taken through the window of the Wollongong Novotel. Here's a slightly better one.

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In other weekend news, it was SnB weekend. My sister-in-law was visiting from 1300km or so away. She's leaving our fine shores for the UK in 3 weeks, but I didn't let that stop me. I brought the whole family along to SnB.
I gave my sister in law the gloves, she was very enamoured of them. Then I said "I need them back now, to take to SnB, you can have them back this afternoon."
I'm fairly sure she thinks I'm rather odd.
David and his sister were happy to sip drinks and read their books, leaving me and Em to get down to serious knitterly business.
Ailsa tried to teach Em to crochet little flowers.

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I caught up with Jussi and Sharon.

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Then I put the camera away and forgot to take more pics.
SnB was wonderful fun, as always. Wonderful company, and great inspiration from all the lovely projects.

Yesterday, we took SIL to the Sydney Fish Markets for lunch.
In a word, Yum.

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I should've taken a picture before we demolished it!
We sat on the jetty in the sunshine and enjoyed the food and watched the seagulls trying to steal food.

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They're very brave little souls. There was one guy, chatting on his mobile phone, and the seagulls were walking right up and stealing the food from under his nose.

I even got a little knitting done.

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The black blob, otherwise known as Icarus is growing, albeit slowly. I've done 2 out of 5 repeats of chart 1.
And I'm already thinking about what I can do next.

Posted by Donna at July 31, 2006 10:35 PM

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well let me say us younger ones had a good girlie chat as well. Hope the knitting is still going well Em.


now next month we will be more organised with the saturday sky.

Posted by: tianne at July 31, 2006 11:14 PM

What a fun weeknd and the weather is beautiful!

Posted by: Wendy G at July 31, 2006 11:53 PM

You really packed a lot into one weekend. Sounds fun to me. Do you know what was going on with the skydivers? That's not a sight you see everyday.

Posted by: wool winder at August 1, 2006 12:42 AM

Cheeky seagulls! Yet another reason not to chat on your celphone. Icarus looks good. So funny to see it on different blogs in different colors.

Posted by: Diane at August 1, 2006 03:23 AM

Sounds like you hade a great weekend. Yay for dragging all the family to SnB :)

Posted by: Carol at August 1, 2006 08:04 AM

aarrgghh!!! Flash and I were at the fishmarkets on sunday too, having lunch, we moved after a close encounter with the seagulls!
Wonderful as always to see you and the family on saturday

Posted by: Jussi at August 1, 2006 10:56 AM

those seagulls can be so annoying sometimes!

Posted by: Michelle at August 1, 2006 11:57 PM

Icarus looks great. I'm thinking that it'll probably take me the better part of a year to knit this shawl up.

Posted by: Samantha at August 3, 2006 01:21 PM