All Sort of Grey

The weather has been pretty grey and dull and that seems to be the pattern for today. 

We went to feed the corvids. There were a lot of magpies, maybe as much as a dozen, and there were plenty of crows as well, all happily diving on the food. 

We were a little subversive while we were there. We scattered some seed balls around the edges of the car park. These are little balls of clay containing wildflower seeds, a little nutrition and some chilli to deter predators that are supposed to be just thrown onto the soil and contain wild flowers. You can get them from Seedball and we threw out the bee and bat friendly balls in places where they don't mow. Nothing may happen - there are a lot of birds around, not to mention all the voles and similar that must be in that overgrown place - but it would be lovely to go back and see flowers that we encouraged. 

While I was there, I was knitting the scarf with the fancy wool and alpaca yarn. I looked at it and realised that I would never wear it. It just wasn't working for me. I considered about selling or donating the yarn, but decided to knit one of the scarves for the Mission to Seafarers. That way, I'd get the very real pleasure of knitting with the yarn and I'd have the comfort of someone out there hopefully benefitting from it. I had got this far...

Then I unravelled it and now I'm so far...

And I'm finding it wonderfully relaxing to knit. 

I asked myself - what do I enjoy about knitting? It's not the finished project. It's the process of knitting. It's not the destination but the journey. I'm going to try and keep to that yardstick to make decisions about the whole knitting thing. 

Hugs and good health to all.