52 Week Challenge - week by week through 2013

[mothhawk]

I've started next weeks challenge already, and it will probably take me the remaining weeks of the year to complete.

I've just restarted knitting a sweater that I began over 3 years ago. It's quite a complicated pattern and after doing the front and back, I'd nearly finished the first sleeve when I found I'd made a mistake right down near the cuff. I was so mad at having to undo virtually the whole sleeve that I shoved it in a cupboard and haven't touched it for 3 years, but I'm determined to finish it for Christmas - this year!

It's a wintery picture so each row is different and I have to count stitches all the time to change colour, so not one I can do while watching TV or reading a book. I have to concentrate, so I don't get many rows done per night.

[Hazel at the Hill]

week 46 Challenge

Visit a New Town

The annual Christmas shopping trip with Mum tends to be a tootle over to Solihull - it's about the right size, with enough shops that we don't have locally, and the right distance away.

We've experimented with other towns over the years - Sheffield Meadowhall (too far away), Worcester (too open air in the cold weather), Telford (too soulless), Merryhill (surprisingly difficult to get to, given the proximity to home), and tend to gravitate back to Solihull.

But this year, we went to Derby. I've not been there before, although it used to be a popular trip out for Mum and Dad, and Mum was keen to go back and have a look round.

It's just a straightforward 45 minutes from home, and having a look online beforehand would appear to consist of a new shopping centre (Westfield), an enormous indoor market and an old shopping quarter by the Cathedral.

We parked at the shopping centre, wandered round the market, then had coffee, looked at the chain stores (most much larger than their counterparts in our town), and found an independent kitchen shop.

Then to the Cathedral, which we had a look round before going to the shop for Christmas cards, and having a look round the independent shops there - the prize being the wonderful Bennetts department store.

We were out of time - we should not have lingered in the shopping centre at the expense of the independent shops. Derby is certainly worth a return visit.



The camera conked out, so the only pic I have is of the Cathedral, but that is my week 46 Challenge completed!

[veggiechicken]

I had to overcome some of my suspicions this week - a suspicion about those charity bags that are shoved through your letterbox with a note telling you to fill the bag and it will be collected.
If you read the small print on some of those bags it will tell you that only X% of the value of the goods will be donated to the charity, the rest is profit for the collectors. Then there are the tales of unscrupulous people, unconnected with a charity, distributing bags and selling on the contents for their own gain, or even, thieves taking the bags that have been put out for a legitimate charity.
I have always taken my stuff to a charity shop and ignored these bags. However, a week of driving around with a bootful of charity shop stuff coincided with the delivery of a Heart Foundation bag and I thought "Stuff it, use it" - so I stuffed the bag and left it outside the door for collection. A little scribbled thank you note was left and that was the end of that - much easier than taking it to a charity shop. If only I had more bags to fill..........

[Sheneval]

VC - my challeng for this week was to start sorting the plastic and metal containers containg my family and local history papers. I started on the 12 small A4 ones and sorted everything in them into a semblance of order throwing out a lot of paper in the process. I even labelled one of them

I also managed to re-use two of them I had emptied to take the stuff, lying on my side table, that I had been working on recently. At the end I was left with two empty ones but suspect I may have to fill at least one of them from stuff I have lying around but at least I know what is in them now

Week 46 challenge completed.

[veggiechicken]

Week 47 - November 18th - 24th

Carry on challenging, Grapes, we're nearly there

[Mikey]

Is it too late to join in?

[veggiechicken]

You joined in Week 1 Mikey - you're number 20
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...3-a_69273.html
Look forward to reading your last 46 challenges

[Mikey]

Cool, its like finding a lost sock.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Cool, its like finding a lost sock.

That's your first one done then, Mikey

[Mikey]

Second challenge hazel, my first was a sausage inventory apparently.

For my third challenge I will be attempting to suck a fruit pastille without chewing.

[Mikey]

No, couldn't manage it. I think it will require some practice.

[bearded bloke]

This week will be to put a new HDD into another lappy & load just enough stuff on it to make it "fit for purpose"

[Tripmeup]

This week I will be mostly changing the light bulb (surprisingly tricky to get at) in herself's car...

[Mikey]

This week I will be mostly changing the light bulb (surprisingly tricky to get at) in herself's car...

I met him on a plane going to Finland a couple of years back, that week he'd been mostly eating moomins.

[Tripmeup]

I met him on a plane going to Finland a couple of years back, that week he'd been mostly eating moomins.

Lucky you...bit of a hero of mine..Seen the live show...class!!