What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 512

Hello Everyone

It's so nice to be back WOYWWing again - it's been weeks!!! Not that much has changed on this desk.

After such a long period doing very little crafting  I'm trying to get enthused about something -  anything crafty at all. It's not as if I haven't got plenty of goodies that should have the creative juices flowing ... pretty patterned paper, embellishments, tubes of pastel shades of acrylic paints, even a Vicki Boutin Art Wedge to enable me to 'create unique textures and contours for mixed media projects'. Ah well, all in good time. In the meantime, I'll just sit here and think about it.

And just outside my window I have a little feathered friend as a very welcome distraction. I think he - I'm assuming it's a he - is doing his best to attract his partner and he sounds quite agitated too. Wonder where she is.

I I should say that t's not been entirely a craft desert here. Another UFO done and dusted. There's nothing quite so soothing as hand sewing hexagons while recuperating on the sofa and watching endless daytime TV.

Finally, the book bit is back. Needless to say, I've listened to quite a few books recently. Now that it's possible to listen on a mobile, and now that mobiles are allowed in most hospital departments, waiting times are so much more pleasant when you can while away the hours with a good book. Here's just a few I got through in NHS waiting rooms.

I do like an Ann Cleeves mystery. This is one of her earlier books, 2001, so it's quite different from the later ones with Vera Stanhope & Shetland's Jimmy Perez. However, it's still entertaining and I enjoyed this book.

This is a hoot of a book. Connie McColl, 66 years old, loves her children and grandchildren but is fed up with being taken for granted, especially by her husband, Roger, who spends more time at the golf club than at home, so she decides to take off for an adventure, on her own. In her little car, Kermit, she meanders up through England to Scotland meeting interesting people on the way. It's a bit of fun, not, I think, to be taken too seriously but I thoroughly enjoyed this light take on the road trip novel.

Another fairly light read based on one of my favourite themes, knitting. It's also a novel about friendship, grief, trust, privacy and the therapy found in keeping busy. You don't have to be able to knit to enjoy the story but if you get excited by a basket of different wools and colours you'll understand one of the main characters, Martha.


That's me for this week. I hope you are all having a wonderful WOYWW.

Take care and have a great week.