New in February

At the end of January, the marvellous Bert of Make and Bake with Bert told of the list of new things she was intending to do each month to challenge and entertain herself. I liked the idea (Bert often has brilliant ideas) and decided to join in. The new things to try each month are:

• Read a new author, or just a book I’ve been meaning to for years
• Try a new ingredient/food/recipe
• Explore a new place
• Something knittingly new

Although I only heard about it at the beginning of February, serendipitously in January I had:

• Read a book by a new-to-me author (Josephine Tey)
• Tried a new recipe (spicy bean stew in the slow cooker)
• Designed a cable pattern for a man sock and knitting it (second sock still to be knitted).

So the only thing I missed out was the exploring of anywhere new.


In February I:

• Read Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James. I had not read any of her books before and I'm sorry to say that this is a sample, I'm not going to be looking out for them.
• Cooked and ate buckwheat noodles. They are cooked and look a lot like spaghetti but are a lot more filling - what I thought was enough for one meal turned out to last for three!
• Explored the sweet shop in town. It has been there since sometime last year and I've walked past and thought I must look in there sometime but it always seemed to be rather full of small people. I went early enough on a Saturday morning for it not to be crowded and found lots of delicous treats. Definitely an exciting new place :)
• Knitting newness came in the form of knitting a jumper that called for four strands of 4 ply to be knitted together. I've done two strands together but never four.

 

What adventures will March hold?