Angol időjárás, megint - English weather, again

This time living up to the reputation regarding the quantity and frequency of rain. Today was the first day of the week when i did not get soaked either in the morning or at the evening (or both). Today we had big wind only :P

I had three days totally off of knitting. I didn't had anything on the needles to just carry on, and was too knocked off after the swallowtail to start anything new. I wanted to do two little scarves/shawls plus the big lacey one during the olympics time, i had one small and the big one down, olympics still going, so after a remarkably short time of pondering ( a mere 2 hours...) i grabbed one of the jitterbugs and cast on for a Traveling woman. I had a bit of a sway towards the Multnomah with stocking stitch instead of garter st as the colours are on the rustic side and would have looked well with those big calm waves, but it also would've made it too rustic. So i stuck with the traveling eoman and it goes quite nice, i'm on the middle of the second repeat of chart a. The probably will be too short for three repeats as the edge chart quite big. I have time until sunday evening, so even with the planned pub visit i'll finish it easily.
Next olympics i'll have to do something really big. Like a Herbert Niebling lace with 2000 (two thousand) sticthes in one round or some norwegian colourwork jumper on 3mm needles.

I ordered some yarn and other stuff off the internet including a 2,5 mm circular addi needle i needed in order to start a project. Except when the needles arrived and i held them i just couldn't remember what project was that. Maybe some gloves. Now i have to go back to my ravelry page and dug up my Favourites pile... like i don't do this enough times already (about once a week, takes hours :D )

Medálosztás - Medal ceremony

"Please accept this Ravatar bouquet from the beautiful Bobettes, wearing gorgeous lacy scarves, cowls and shawls of many colors:

and this medal from the head of the International Ravelympic Committee, Adonis Dionysius Bobicus Maximus:

Now please rise for the Ravelry International Anthem.

dum…dedumdum..de…dummmdedumdidoh…..(crescendo)…Dah!!!

And the crowd runs off in search of blocking wires and T-Pins… because they’re all I.L.L."

Ezért kaptam.
I earned it with this.

:)

(I.L.L. = I Love Lace ;)

Pssszt - Pssst

Csak akkor akartam írni róla amikor már megkaptam a medált érte, de a moderátor asszem amerikai, és még mindig nincs eredményhirdetés a mai napra, és már majdnem 10 órája befejeztem, szóval... befejeztem a Swallowtail-t, blokkolva, elvarrva, és szép lett nagyon, még meg is dícsérték, igaz hogy a fonal színét - ami nekem nem igazán esetem, de hát ízlések és pofonok :D
Aztán meg két órámba került befejezni a bejegyzést a londoni utamról, eredeti dátum szerint február 10-re van keltezve. És hova lett már megint a hétvégém?!

I wanted to announce it when i got the badge but the moderator who gives out the medals is american i guess and i finished almost 10 hours ago, so... the Swallowtail is finished, blocked, sewn up, pretty and already complimented or at least the colour of the yarn - which i wasn't particularly fond of, but for each they own :D
Also i spent about 2 hours writing up the london trip and posted it with the original date, february 10... where's my weekend again?!

Hm, swallowtail azt jelenti pillangó, a lepkék egy csoportja. Meg vagyok lőve, én eddig azt hittem ez két szó szinonímája egymásnak - olyasmi mint hogy mi vasban (Vas megye) a rovarokat úgy általában simán bogárnak hívjuk. Csak épp a rovar-bogárnál tudjuk, hogy mi a különbség, de attól még nyelvjárási jellegzetességként simán felcseréljük, a lepke-pillangó dologról viszont nem tudtam. És biológiából érettségiztem!

Wow swallowtail means butterfly... in hungarian, we use two words: lepke and pillango (papillon) as synonims but pillango (butterflies) are actually a subfamily in the family of lepke (Papilionidae). In my home county on the western border we use these words exchangably, just as bug and insect, these are dialect specialities. I knew about the bug thing but not about the butterfly. And i took biology as one of my matriculation exam subjects!

Érme bűvészet - Coin magic

Last weekend i found an interesting coin in my purse. I'm using that small vallet only in the canteen during weekdays, so i must have get it there with the change. It says United States on the tail side and has "1 dime" written on it. I found this strange as i thought the currency is dollar in the USA :D
I looked it up on wiki and now i understand why are they always using the nicknames for the coins in the films. Because that's what's written on them. Not 10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents but 1 dime, quarter, half dollar, and no numbers. Crazy people.
Also it's interesting that the dime - 10 cents - is the same size and colour as the 5p here; and the nickel - 5 cents - is just slightly smaller and has the same colour as the 10p. I might add, the hungarian 5 forint and 10 forint are like copies of the british 5 and 10 pence. International coin-spiracy. Nothing can beat in weirdness the good old 50p though.


"Weird! What a shape! This is money?" (quote from Ron Weasley)


This dime was the most interesting (furthest from home) coin i found here in England so far; the others were an euro 1 cent, spanish one if i remember right, i picked it up from the pavement on High street; and two twenty pence pieces, one from Gibraltar and one from Guernsey. I've got these two from the canteen too; we have a lots of different people working there from around the world, some doesn't even know british money well, so it's not that surprising.
I collect the rarer 50p and 2 pounds pieces too, i have about 30 pounds worth of those in my jewellery box. Sometimes when i'm very short on change i use a couple of them and then spend weeks to try get them back.
Last year there was a big re-design on the coins and now the reverses make up the the royal shield - being a heraldry geek, i almost squeeked when saw the first puzzle-piece amongst the change and realized this will be one of the best puzzles i ever did. I checked every single piece of change i could get my paws on and took two months after having all the others to hunt down a 1p coin, the last missing piece, with the help of my cousin who got the bug from me and was also collecting them on his own. I like the old reverses too, so many historical references on them: Tudor arms, Prince of Wales arms, scottish thistle, royal lion, tudor rose, the full royal coat of arms and these are just the basic ones... the one and two pounds have at least a dozen variations each. I love living history :)

I also keep a hungarian 20 forint piece in my vallet, which has a stool iris on it ; and a 50 forint, with a saker falcon, in my jeans pocket. Coin magic ;)

Ázik - Soaking

Swallowtail elkötve, beáztatva. Jobb mancs hasogat. Körülnéztem a szobában, és rendetlenség van. Ideje visszatérni a való világba :)

Swallowtail bind off, in the soak. Right paw aching. Had taken a look around the room and it's a mess. Time to come back to the real world :)

(Az ott a bbc olimpiai közvetítése, on-line. Most azér örülnék egy tévének... az nem pixeles és nem akad :P )

(That's the bbc's on-line olympics coverage. I'd like a tv set right now... no pixels and no erratic stream :P)

Hatodik nap - Day six

Nincs időm írni, olimpiázok :D A bbc online közvetítást nézem, és némelyik kommentátornak haláli angol humora van. A többi meg kommentátor átkát okoz sorozatosan - amikor elkezdik mondani, mennyire jó valaki, az illető általában esik egy jó nagyot... :D

No time to write, doing olympics :) Some of these bbc commentators have real funny british humour, the rest have commentator's curse - every time they start to praise someone the person they talk about falls :D :D

11 ismétlésnél tartok a kis mintából a Swallowtail-en, és úgy döntöttem a receptben írt számú ismétlést fogom kötni. Majdnem biztos hogy ki fogok fogyni a fonalból, valószínűleg 4 sorral a vége előtt, mint a Gail-nél, de a rövidítés csökkentené a kihívási értéket is. Hosszabbítás mondjuk szintén őrültség lenne :D

11 repeats of the budding lace pattern on the swallowtail done, and i decided to go with the original number of repeats. Almost sure i'll end up four rows short like with the Gail, but this supposed to be a challange... shortening it would lessen that. Lenghtening it would be total crazy too :D
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Ami a munkát illeti - a gyár adott nekünk egy cirádásan fogalmazott levelet, miszerint nincs elég megrendelésünk, úgyhogy ha valaki ki szeretne venni pár napot, örömmel engedélyezik. Fizetetlen szabi persze. Főnök nem adott nekem a levélből, kicsit tartottam tőle hogy azért, mert rám ez valamiért nem vonatkozik, de csak elfelejtett.

On the working front - factory gave us a pretty elaborate letter about not having enough orders so if we want to take a few days off they'd be glad to let us have them. Unpaid of course. Boss skipped me so i thought maybe i'm excluded but she just forget about me.