Hello again!

Today has been a good green day!

I had my neighbour over for coffee this morning and we had a nice long natter about green things and ethical careers and stuff, and she gave me a book of knitting patterns and a stitch holder and some wool needles as a present for getting my degree results! Hurrah! Maybe I can now knit something more exciting than a really, really, really long scarf, which is what I’m doing at the moment (but I haven’t dropped or gained a single stitch!).

Then this afternoon I made jam for the first time ever. My mum had to go and pick up my brother just at the crucial point, so I had to do the saucer tests on my own and work out if it was wrinkling when I touched it. It seems to have set! It was gooseberry, and it’s gone pink rather than staying green, and the fruit isn’t very evenly distributed in all the jars (picked a nice one out for the boyfriend’s family though!), but I’m still very proud of it for a first solo attempt!

Then this evening, I found out I’d got some crockery off Freecycle! Which is good, as moving in is probably going to be very expensive, and we’ve only got one bowl between us. We’ve been given loads of furniture by generous relatives and friends, but there are still so many little things that are all going to add up: a hoover, cutlery and crockery, an iron, ironing board, etc, etc, etc. We haven’t bought anything new yet, a fact which I’m strangely proud of, but I fear this can’t last much longer…