B is for books

I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

I love books. I "read" books much before I learned how to read, and I cannot think of a time when I've not had a book or more on the go. Always reading.

I love books, and I find it very difficult to go into a bookshop and not come out with at least one. I grew up in a house filled with books (triple stacked, in every corner, in good-quality boxes in the attic when we ran out of space), and that's how I want to continue mine to be. I would love to have a place big enough to have a dedicated library.

For this entry, I went around my flat and took pictures of all the books I could see. It so happens that the only room without books is the bathroom, although I always carry mine there. The study contains 4 1/2 Billys mostly filled (3 fiction and 1 1/2 non fiction), and there are books in the bedroom (waiting to be read), in the kitchen (cooking books) and in the living room (mainly knitting, but some others as well). There is also still space for more books, so clearly I need to go out and get more.



I love books, and few things give me more pleasure.

I would love a baby otter

A little pick me up in case anybody is feeling a bit sad.

A little baby otter was rescued by a postman.
As a follow up, now the baby otter has a kitten foster brother.

Be careful when you click on those links. My head nearly asploded of cute.

Wisteria in progress

Because I walk lopsided, all my legs joints were hurting on Friday. So bad that I stayed home instead of going to work, because I didn't feel I could easily make it there, and then work. So I knitted a whole lot, as well as taking an incredibly nice bath with a lavender and cocoa butter bath bomb.

The result? Here is the progress on wisteria half-way through Friday:

On Saturday I went with Alex to see my best friend, and then Alex and him played Warhammer 40K while I knitted. I am already doing the waist decreases! I have knitted a lot recently, but it is also a very quick and moderately easy knit. I'm very happy with it.

I have a new camera!

This is my Wisteria. You can't see the cables very well in the picture, but I just wanted to show off my new camera (Samsung L200, for what is worth).

The stitch markers are some cute bees from yarnlust. I am completely in love with them, and I will recommend her: I got several sets from her and I'm very happy with all.

Pictures will slowly resume as I take them. I still don't have a full picture of my Emerald, so I should probably do that first.

Foot update: still broken! :(

So, when people have been asking me how was my foot, and I was answering either still attached or still broken, I was right!

I had a follow-up appointment today. My foot is mostly ok , but the bone has not finished joining, and it shoudl have by now. Even I could tell the bone wasn't completely closed from my x-ray.
I will keep with my boot and my crutch to see how it goes, and I have another appointment in 6 weeks. However, if it hasn't finished healing by then, I'll need an operation to put a screw in the bone, which sounds quite a lot unlike fun. I'm not being very lucky! At least, things seem to be going all right in other areas, so I can't complain too much.