While My Pretty Ones Knits

The first Black Sheep Knitting Mystery book "While My Pretty Ones Knit" by Anne Canadeo.

 

Smiled when I saw the UFO description again - second book within a week, but this time I already knew what it means. New addition to the knitting vocabulary is: TINK - knit spelled backwards.... describes stitch(es) that needs to be pulled.... also the name of a dog in the story.

 

This series takes us to Plum Harbor, Massachusetts - a city with no less than two yarn shops. Maggie Messina, owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop suddenly becomes a suspect, when her competitor Amanda Goran is found murdered in the Knitting Nest. The regulars at the Black Sheep Knitting Shop support Maggie and tries to unravel who was behind the murder, but it is a race against time as several things points at Maggie and detective Walsh wants to arrest the murderer soon.

 

Do not even have to wait for the second book in this series, as nr 5 is already out in stores and the 6th is due January 14th next year :o)

Blackbirds Song/Melody on My Mind

The are two versions of Blackbirds that I really cherish - the original one song by the Beatles and then Trio Rococo's cover version, that still sends chills down my spine everytime I hear it. The latter I heard at the Danish national football stadium, Parken, packed with people at an Kulturby96 event in Copenhagen, Denmark - and will never forget hearing it there... and it made a huge impression of most of us there.

 

Now, I do know that the freebie bird from A Day For Daisies is not a blackbird, but the song lured me into coloring the bird black/white - and then I thought sympathy card.... then the CCEE1329 challenge: Sing, Sing a Song.

Here is what I came up with:

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free
you were only waiting for this moment to be free
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

The Beatles

My Cola

 

Well it must me mine, as has my name on the bottles ;o) And share it.... yes with myself.....

Dyeing Wishes

2nd book in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery series by Molly MacRae: Dyeing Wishes.

Once again, my knitting lingo is being updated. Already learned that TGIF is Thank God It's Fiber (and here we thought that it was Thank God It's Friday). New entry: UFO as in UnFinished Object. WOW!! That means that my appartment is UFO central: yarn, paper, card, fabric witness about it daily *sigh* but apparently a crafter's curse.

 

"And just as women shouldn't have too many cats, if she could help it she probably shouldn't have too many ghosts, or she might end up being called a crazy ghost lady."

 

Kath Ruthledge is still looking for her grandmother Ivy's notebooks with fiber dye secrets while still adjusting to life in Blue Plum with Geneva the ghost and the cat. Soon they stumble across a double murder and more than once the TGIF phone tree does it's work to gather minds and food to solve the murder as they know one of the murdered victims.

 

Kath gets more glimses if the gift that she has inherited from her grandmother and needs to rely on her instincts to interpret them - the others talk about Ivy's gift, but they do not seem to realise that it might be a little supernatural.

World War Z

I actually went into see a zoombie movie the other day - and one starring Brad Pitt. Now some eyebrows are raised as that is usually not a film that I would go in and see on a Sunday, but some friends asked me if I wanted to join them at the cinema - why not? And just expanding the movie world a little more.

 

Must admit, that there are elements/messages in the movie, that I do like - and despite being a zoombie movie it even made you think a little further about what we are doing to us/the Earth (Mother Nature). Mother Nature is the biggest serial killer of the all. At first I laughed when I heard one of the characters state that - but then the laughter stopped.

 

Mother Nature - one you can not beat, perhaps with modern technology slow down - who will always be the wiser. It is like people are discussing the face that more and more people get a certain kind of dissease than previous - but given the fact that a lot more people are living on Earth han "previous" are ratios actio the same or actually less? Or are we looking at an area where homo sapiens have invented a drug/medicine to alter/stop the course of a virus/dissease so Mother Nature merely adjust and alters her course/direction?

 

Might be a bit thorn over the subject, as I have an illness that needs medication - I believe that Mother Nature sometime tries to evolve, but then end up in a blind street and needs to learn. She is good at adapting and finding other solutions - might sound harsh that she lets something die for other things to develop into more amazing things. Then there are the homo sapiens - us - who have developed methods to survive her quirks, but would it actually be better for us in the long run, if we let her have her ways?! That will always be a hot topic, since we think, act etc. and nobodys' opinion will never be the same even in situations of life and death......

All these thoughts "just" because I saw a movie.

Faces

 

 

 

Faces ..... here as street art - but again the thin line between art and vandalism.... These are scattered through the city - some a couple of years old, others fairly new

Steve Bloom - Livin Africa

The man on above photo is photographer Steve Bloom, who held one of his lectures in connection with the National Geographics 125 Years Exhibit in Copenhagen. Did not know much about hos photos before I went to the lecture, but decided that it would be a great opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a "new" photographer. Turned out to be a good decision.

 

Steve is born in South Africa but relocated to the UK in 1977 due to his dislike with the then Apartheid regime in his country. Later he returned to his beloved continent and started capturing amazing photos of people, places and animals which has also resulted in numerous books with wonderful photos. Africa for me is unchartered territory, so was quickly drawn into the photos that presented the continent in a colorful way seen through his eyes - do not know if I will ever go to Africa myself (can foresee a problem with the MS and temperatures) so a wnderful way of "travelling" to the area.

 

The lecture with his photos and sounds while he was talking non-stop for 1½+ hour just swooped you into his Africa - wanted to see more and yet had to stop in order to digest the photos properly. An lecture like this just want an amateur photographer to venture out more and take photos knowing that the result will never be as good as works of an professional - it makes you look/discover small facts, details you might not have seen unless you "just happened" to capture it on a photo.