Brackin’ da Bröd

I know i open almost every new entry this way, but Och bairns! Where does the time go? I cannot believe it’s nearly June!

Much of my working week last week was monopolised by writing up a report of a conference that was on the previous weekend. It was a really interesting weekend, but my butt was well and truly numb after 27 lectures! The highlight was a performance of the Papa Stour Sword Dance which my teensy photo does no justice to.

it was a very interesting ritual indeed involving the seven saints of Christendom who danced in a very well choreographed formation which ended in a star being formed with their swords. The budding ethnologist in me wanted to know more of the ritual and drama involved but the following presentation was a textual analysis of which written account of the dance is the oldest, so was left unfulfilled!

Have a look on youtube and see the dance for yourself.

Last weekend i was determined to have a long-weekend at home due to being utterly knackered from the previous weekend and the stress of writing the huge 2 page report…as an aside i could never be a reporter full time – i don’t have the stick-at-it-ness i don’t think…anyway – i was in need of some relaxation.

Specsavers were up and i had an appointment with them on Friday – new glasses were the verdict and i also decided to try contacts too. But when i came to choosing frames – lordy! I am so fussy and can’t make a decision to save myself i had to go away and get my sister to come back with me. We settled on two pairs and i still couldn’t decide – if they had my exact same frames i would have probably gone for them again lol, in the end i went for something completely different than my copperbronzey frames and went for ones with pink legs! I hope i don’t regret it when they arrive!

Saturday and Sunday were mainly spent at the pins! My friend in Australia has just had a little girl and so I knit little ballerina-esque bootees and i have adapted a baby cloche hat design to look (hopefully) like a little bluebell (except it’s a whitebell). It’s my first foray into adapting a pattern so i hope it come out ok, it’s still on the needles just now, but i will post pictures when i’m done.

Whilst i was knitting the bootees i was watch the Thorn Birds on Zone Romantica….it never gets tiresome watching that, although i had to rip back a bootee as i was not paying enough attention. Funnily enough i found the book in the loft last night, must give it another read.

The rest of the week zipped on past as it usually does and then i found it to be the weekend again – sheesh!

My friend and ex-landlady was visiting Shetland this weekend with two of her friends. They worked in Shetland thirty years ago so a reunion was on the cards. The Lerwick Lounge was pinned with old faces and hearty laughter on Saturday night; it was just all too short as they are away today :’(

Oh lordy i hope this week doesn’t zip past me – its difficult to grasp on to anything these days before it slips through the old fingers.

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