FB has been waking up at 5am for the last few weeks due to a combination of ‘I can move around now, so much to do!’, lots of open windows,  a loud dawn chorus, and very bright early mornings.

Luckily his parents are morning people, on the whole.

That said, I was pretty bleary eyed when we started watching sunday night’s tv coverage very early on monday morning.

(My favourite performances from this year? Pendulum, and The Prodigy - who were as fresh and amazing as I remember them being at the Phoenix and Reading Festivals in 1996 But I was also impressed that Blur were back at their fighting weights.)

I’m northern. I can’t take the heat. I miss the sea breeze.

It’s too hot to take photos.

It’s too hot to write conherent posts.

It’s too hot for FB to sleep (3.15 onwards this morning. Luckily his dad  took over at 5 am so I am not a total heap on the floor.)

It’s pretty much too hot to craft, though I’m making limp attempts.

It’s too hot to think about food, but I’m breastfeeding, so I’m always hungry.

We’re off to sit under a tree with friends. In the shade, with fruit and lots of water.

I can’t wait for it to rain over the weekend. Seriously. Then maybe my brain will start working again.

There is no point in wearing jewelry right now. Little grabby fingers are into everything, and anything small is likely to get eaten.

However I remembered this post from A Friend to Knit With, and set to work summerifying myself. :)

The fabric is Munki Munki Swimming Pools - which I really really love.

I expect to add one or two more to my wrist as the weeks go on, and they’re staying on till the end of August.

(Probably. ;)

(Baktus [ravelry link] - using this handspun)

For the first time in a while, I have a project on the needles that doesn’t need to be finished, so I can just pick it up when I need something mindless to knit, (as I did last night while watching the new series of Top Gear).

I like getting my scarf knitting sorted in the summer and getting the finished item blocked and put away, ready for the first cold autumn day.

It’s a present to myself.

In the last week or so, all my craft time has been taken up with spinning the fibre I bought at the UK Ravelry Day.

It’s still drying, and needs reskeining so that I can see how much I’ve got, but regardless, it’s squishy, and plentiful and goes from light to light/dark to dark.

I can’t wait to see how it knits up.

(Though there are a few things before it in the queue, so that might be a number of weeks. Until then I just get to squeeze it and admire it. Not exactly a hardship. ;)