The temperature is too damn high!

Yup. It's bloody hot.

Fortunately, we had the AC on, and we turned the TV off because it was throwing too much heat, and instead we had the radio on. I read a little bit of I Capture the Castle, too. Boy, do I love AC...

I've not done much knitting, except for a headband for House Cup. I may post a picture sometime. It turned out nicely, and I still have a bit of cotton leftover. I've got itchy fingers, though, so I may start something else out of cotton to keep me busy - I need to destash anyway. I was going to start a hat, but the yarn I want to use is wool so I may leave that for autumn. I have bits and bobs of cotton to use up, though, so I might make a scrap-cloth.

I have something else to keep me busy: a book is waiting for me to pick up at the library. Trouble is, it's 407 pages long, so I'm worried I won't be able to read it. I have three weeks with the book, though, so we'll see. I may be stuck in the house if the heat keeps up, so it'll be nice to have a new book to read.

Luckily, it's cooler today than it was yesterday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for rain...

Calm evening

This afternoon it was quite warm, but now it's quite overcast, and a little windy. It's been like this for an hour or two, I think. It's quite calming.

So today I've been haunting The AntiCraft. It's a brilliant site with recipes, knitting and crochet patterns, sewing patterns and the like, with Pagan and Gothic themes. There's a pair of socks from the one issue that I really want to make, but I've never knit socks before so I should probably start with a basic cuff-down. But the socks are so pretty...

Anyway, I've been reading a bit about Paganism on Wikipedia. Seems interesting. I had a book on Neo-Paganism out of the library, but I only really thumbed through it. I should get it out again.

Speaking of the library, I took back Fruits Basket 9 and two of my DVDs, so now I'll only be charged fines for the other two DVDs. So that makes me happy. I picked up Sting's newest CD, If On a Winter's Night... The library has it filed under 'Christmas', but there's a Halloween song called 'Soul Cake' on it, which I saw him perform on The View last year. I can't wait to listen to it.

I can see new leaves on the gooseberry bush, which makes me happy. This weather, though warm for April, has been great. Tomorrow's supposed to be 18 degrees Celsius, so I'll probably wear my light jeans.