I'm up and blogging at this ungodly hour (7am ... what?!) because it's sooo much cooler in the garden than in my bedroom. It appears that today will also be hot (29C or 84F if that makes more sense to you). Luckily (and I never thought I'd say it) I'm going to work, where at least the main office is air-conditioned, if not the stairwells.
The catboy will have to stay home though. I'll shut the patio doors which separate the house from the south facing oven conservatory and keep him out of there. I did this on Friday, when it was only 26C (hardly warm at all!) and well, I don't actually know how hot it got in there. The thermometer is marked up to 120F and then it has a little blue stick which records the max temp. I couldn't see it, and when I pressed the return button, it took its sweet time to float into view. So lets just say "unbelievably hot" and not suitable for persons wearing unremovable fur coats.
He is a little strange though. I woke up, sweltering under my 4.5 tog duvet, inwardly complaining that my ceiling fan is rubbish. And Terra is lying on the windowsill in the hot bedroom. Now there aren't really any places downstairs where I could alternatively sleep ... but the cat can.sleep.anywhere. Apparently the cat brain is the size of a walnut, which must explain why they're all nuts.
KWC Update: Now I'm not going to torture you every day over the next 4 weeks with boring pictures of the orange throw with "two more ridges than yesterday". Not every day. But at least at weekends I can dedicate most of my time to knitting and show more progress, so here's where we're at.
I'm obviously not used to all that purling, my left thumb is kinda achy today. I did learn continental purling (I knit English normally) which used different muscles but I was sooo slow and had to really concentrate. If I can just make it to the centre square I think I'll be fine (cos I'm going to tweak the pattern to knit that and not purl it).
And here's a week's worth of my other preoccupation. I got into bead-weaving about two months before I rediscovered knitting. I haven't got very far in my long-term goal to have beaded swatches of every colour Delica bead they make.
My reasoning behind this desire is that when I actually sit down to make an item (jewellery, beaded picture, whatever), I'll have a physical colour reference to choose from. I've completed about 80 swatches (in roughly a year) and apparently there's over 400 different colours. I've a ways to go yet I guess. These are all coloured glass with a lining of silver which make the colours really zing!