Back to reality

Hello there - normal Sunday service has resumed! It's the end of the school holidays, and I can't believe that I'll be back at work tomorrow. It feels like an absolute age since I was last in school, and I have to admit that I'm not particularly looking forward to it! I missed the last week of term because I was in Toulouse, and had a supply teacher in my room, so I shall enter with some trepidation. You can never be sure if books will have been marked, or if your supply of card that you've been saving has been used all in one go!! I'm still not feeling 100%, as I came back from France with a chest infection. I had to resort to going to the doctor to get some antibiotics because I felt so rotten, but I finish them tomorrow, so fingers crossed the bugs will soon be gone!
Mr Josiekitten and I have spent the weekend in the garden. We've had two days of lovely warm spring sunshine here in Norfolk. Yesterday I gave the shed a fresh coat of woodstain, and revamped some wooden pots while Mr JK prepared the vegetable plot. Today the potatoes went in, along with garlic that'd been growing in modules for some time, and leeks. The tomatoes and cucumbers are in the greenhouse, and there are big plans to get more veggies planted during the week. We picked our first rhubarb and have just enjoyed rhubarb crumble and custard. Yummy! I sat outside crocheting this afternoon, and was amazed by the number of bees visiting the flowering currant bush. I can't wait for the summer!
Talking of crocheting, I'm about half way now on my Ripple scarf. I made sure that I sewed in the cast on tail so that I wouldn't make the same mistake again! I love the colour combination, and hope that I'll have it finished by next weekend so that I can get a little bit of wear out of it before the warmer weather really kicks in. Here's how it's looking now .......

and here's a closeup of the colour combinations. It reminds me of spring blossom I think.

My Monkey socks are half way there too. I didn't get anywhere near as much knitting done in France as I'd thought. The yarn is from Laughing Yaffle, and is lovely to knit with. Here is sock one - sock two will hopefully be cast on tonight so it can go into my school bag!

And here's a close up of all the gorgeous colours in the yarn. The colourway is called Carnival just in case you're tempted to buy some!

I haven't got very far with the other scarf I took either. Despite the fact that it's all garter stitch, it's taking me longer than I thought, mainly because 2 out of every 4 rows are knitted on size 9mm needles, and I'm finding them pretty cumbersome to knit with! They feel ginormous after I've been knitting socks! Still, I shall persevere, because I like the effect it's mkaing. (Mr JK asked me why I was making a scarf full of holes!)

Well, that's all my knitting news caught up with I think, so I shall pootle off now and get that sock cast on. Have a good week!