Pre-Christmas faffing, Two Lovely Lunches and a bit of an advent catch up

I honestly don't know where time has gone these last couple of weeks but anyway - 

Last Monday I had my hair done

I put this picture on Facebook. It got lots of likes and nice comments, but also a 'What the hell, Anne' from a friend in Oz. While I appreciate that a blue stripe in the hair isn't to everyone's taste I would have thought those that didn't like it could just have kept quiet on the grounds that it wasn't their hair and anyway does it really matter enough to risk upsetting someone by being rude? 

I should also say it  took the OH quite a long time to even notice the stripe. He says this is because I had the side with it turned away from him but this is not true as I several times placed myself on the side  where it would be visible to him. 

Then on Tuesday  I had my nails sparkled up

On Wednesday I headed back to Edinburgh for a pre-Christmas  lunch with my friends V and D. We went to Valvona and Crolla, an inspired choice as the lunch portions are manageable and they also do a cocktail called a V and C Spritz which has elderflower in it. Not just elderflower, obvs, but the elderflower is why I had it and it was delicious. 

Thursday I made some cards, wrote some cards, did some wrapping and on Friday we braved the pouring rain to go into Stirling and post them all. Happily there was no queue in the Post Office at all, which I couldn't quite believe so close to Christmas, but I wasn't grumbling. Felt great after that was done because that was the last Christmas stuff off my hands. That's always a good feeling. 

Yesterday we went over to Glasgow and lunched at the extremely nice Restaurant Pieno with the singer we supported for several years recently through the SO Emerging Artists Program. We hadn't seen her for  a while so it was lovely to catch up with all her news and give her ours. Hers was exciting and career oriented, ours was mostly about the New Cat. The food was wonderful as it always is there, even this close to Christmas and even though it was very busy. After saying our goodbyes we went back to the flat and picked up son no 2 and brought him over to Alloa for Christmas and the New Year. 

There is now nothing on the calendar for three whole weeks which is either a yawning chasm of nothingness or blessed and peaceful space to do nice things like make more cards, knit, read, watch rubbish tv etc. I'm thinking the latter really. 

Finally a yarn advent catch up

days 9 - 14 

and 15 - 20

It strikes me its better to put them in blocks of a few days at a time as the colour progression is easier to see than with photos of single skeins.