I had two rather large bloke looking builders staring in amazement at the above sock on the bus this morning, which rather amused me as they were the last people i would have thought of to take an interest in what one of them described as being like a funny looking spider. The reason why i was knitting on the bus at some ungodly hour is because i started back at university yesterday, which means three days a week of getting up before dawn and not getting home until long after the sun's set. It also unfortunately means an enormous work load and very little time to knit, after christmas once the first lot of assignments are handed in things should calm down slightly, in time for the blind panic at the looming prospect of being a staff nurse in only a matter of months. But hopefully in between bouts of running round like a headless chicken i'll find time to knit something more challenging than stocking stitch socks. The next socks due for a possible completion are lsb's gentleman socks. The first of which is done but not kitchenered as the yarn intensive nature of the pattern and a large man's foot are making of cautious that there might not be enough yarn to finish off. So the second sock has reversed stripes, which he seems to like, so all is good. After that my reward for studying hard will be an hour or two spent on my rainbow conwy sock and them i refuse to get distracted anymore and have promised myself i will finally start my broad street mittens.