knitting, and camping.

finished my first attempt at the maya scarf last night. i don't seem to be doing too badly at the moment for finished objects, though the number of unfinished objects never really seems to decrease. it's the first official day of my easter break from university today, a time that i really wanted to spend knitting. unfortunately though with exams creeping up increasingly quickly it looks like most of my fortnight's going to be spent with my head stuck in a book. i did manage to take some time out yesterday from both knitting and cramming like mad to put a tent up. i should probably explain at this point that well over a year ago my boyfriend got it into his head that it would be a good idea to buy a tent when he passed by a camping supply shop one day. a week later the tent was bought and has been sat at the top of the stairs and various other places round the house since then just waiting to be erected. finally yesterday seeing that the weather was at last decent enough to venture outside i was reluctantly dragged away from my needles to assist with trying to put the tent up, in the back garden of all places. a back garden which i might add is actually about as wide as this tent, which also happened to be side facing so once the thing was semi erected the two of us clambered in to check out our handy work. i don't know if anyone else has ever tried this but trying to enter a tent through a flower bed that happens to have a big pointy branched bush thing right in front of the door is no easy feat, especially when you consider that neither myself or my boyfriend are short people. eventually though we were in and after sitting down inside for a well deserved five minutes rest and a ribena break we thought we'd better take the tent down again before the neighbours thought the two of us had gone completely mad. unfortunately taking it down turned out to be the hard part, well not so much the taking down part more the managing to squeeze this rather enormous tent back into the teeny weeny little bag it came from and the wind deciding to start whipping everything all over the lawn. i'm sure it made for something of a comical sight to anyone looking out of the window. and after much persuasion the tent finally found itself packed away and i retreated back indoors to finish off a red maya scarf to cast on for the blue one the boyfriend's been pestering for for the past week or two.