Filed under: Living in Europe
Luckily not everything is so bad about Slovenia. There are also good things about living on the “Sunny side of the Alps”. One of those is definitely being so close to “civilised world”. This means that after 4 hours drive in the car you can be in Vienna, Munich or Venice. If you happen to live in Kamnik, like we do, you can cross the Austrian border in less than one hour and – voila! This is where 40 cm long circualr needles can be bought. And also some other interesting knitting stuff. Like this (let’s call it that way) yarn.
A ball of multicolored pon-pon yarn
I couldn’t resist lovely colours and I already imagine a cardigan for Tamara embelished by these cute pom-pons. The ball weighs 200 gramms and there is 80 cm of the stuff on it.
Here’s a detail – it’s very soft on the touch…
Lovely colours
The day was grey and chilly, but it reminded us on Norway, so that was good as well :)
Path to the water
We had a ‘picnic’ by a pond where two men were fishing and enjoyed the views of early Alpine autumn. On the way back home we realized that high peaks of “our” Alps (those we see when we step on the balcony) where covered with snow. Hope Tamara will like it as much as I do (snow, I mean).
Tamara by the pond
Quite often I think about moving from Slovenia. In such a small place it can get very stuffy. It’s not just the size of the country that’s bothering me, it’s also this period in which I happen to live here. First we got hit by transition, now, post-transition. I don’t know which is worse. Sometimes, I feel I am like an alien here. My values, opinions, expectations are so much different than majority I wonder, what has happened to me and where all this is going. I am not talking about some big issues, important to the universe and mankind, it’s just small bits of your everyday life.
If you want to take your child to the park you can get killed three times while crossing the road. In the shop you can wait forever, because everybody elese (including old ladies) is trying to squeeze in front of you. If your car is small you deserve to be looked upon as a small (unsuccessful) piece of shit. If you don’t live in a brand new apartment building you don’t know what is good (for you). If you think that a job well done should be decently paid you’re an idiot. If you don’t have a TV you’re totaly lost. If you stop on the red light you’re so slow you’re an obstacle to everybody else. If you don’t dye your hair it must be that you don’t wash yourself either. If you like Middle East you are a Muslim extremist.
And on top of this all – it’s impossible to buy 40cm long knitting needles on a string!! Beuacuse, if you knit, you must be retarded - there is so much cheap clothes to buy and you want to waste your time knitting?
The Cobblestone for Grasswire is a great knit so far. Now I have almost come to the part where I should start working on sleeves and it looks like I will have to order the needles from Germany/Britain/Norway or USA. We’ll see. Until than I will work on something else (maybe something for me).
Tomorrow is going to be a great day. I am not working and we’re going to the park with Tamara. Autumn is here!
Autumn leaves
We finally finished renovaating our apartment. Grasswire wrote about the final action – changing the radiators and all I can add to this is that I am so happy we are done with it. It feels good to come home, again, not like a couple of months ago when there were piles of paper (=mostly trash), clothes, toys that didn’t have their dedicated place, newspapers, books, DVDs piled randomly around… I felt was in a (tiny but packed) warehouse.
So, not only did we clean iand buy new windows, new radiators and couch, we also threw LOADS of things away. And I am THRILLED because of that.
After a long while I have a feelig that actualy, there is a place for ME in this apartment (not just mine stuff).
So to celebrate this I decided to redecorate my blog and I chose a new wallpaper for the image header. :)
As for my knitting – I just started working on Cobblestone for I. This time I checked the gauge very carefully, so I know it will fit him. And this is also an opportunity to learn something new – I have actualy never knit a whole garment on circualr needles, so wel’ll see how this goes.
To thank you for al lovely comments about my dwarf hat I post some nice photographs from our holidays (Croatia, Istra). That way you will understand why I don’t want to go to work tomorrow ;))
