I'm still in Glasgow when I should be at home thanks to a wonderful fall of snow!
My 5 minute walk to the SECC took 20 minutes this morning as I dragged my case through 12 inches of snow and fell over 2x.
The show was quiet but steady - amazing as there were no trains, very limited buses and no planes. There was a huge cheer from the stall holders as 2 coach loads of crafters arrived from Aberdeen after a 9 hour journey.
My 20 minute car ride to the airport took 90 minutes and my plane still hasn't left from it's point of departure to get here!
They won't allow needles on the plane so I'm sitting here without knitting listening to podcasts and watching the snow ploughs dance up and down the runways in a ballet routine which is very graceful.
No sign of the tortoise and it's loss has upset everyone involved in the project - thanks to all of you who sent emails and texts about it. I'm going to print them off and send them to the knitter so that she knows her hard work was appreciated albeit too briefly.
The curly yarn is "Knitit" by Wendy and the only colours i saw were the blue and a red/cream combination. I have 2 balls of yarn in my bag with a Sirdar "Loopa" for when I get bored tonight. If I get really bored I might be posting "action shots" in an atempt to keep awake!
Posted by Yvonne at March 12, 2006 08:40 PMHope you weren't stuck on the plane needlelessly for too long. What a shame that the wonderful tortoise went missing after all the knitters' hard work in making it. :-( I'm sure though that we've all appreciated it even from seeing it in the photo and in the time that it was on display I expect it was much admired.
Posted by: Hazel at March 13, 2006 11:48 AMHooray for podcasts!
And I can't believe someone stole that lovely tortoise. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
If I were you I'd get the Loopa out right this minute to pass the time. Knit something extra special later as a treat for being delayed, I'm sure it won't be too much longer now.....
Posted by: Tracy at March 13, 2006 09:57 AMI hope your exile wasn't too long in the end. Annoying to be stuck without your needles! By the way, I went to the uk handknitting site and it didn't mention Olympia. I'm still available if you need help.
Posted by: Brigid at March 12, 2006 10:42 PMOh Yvonne, poor you stuck at Glasgow Airport. Actions shots would be great though! Sorry too about the tortoise - shame on whoever nicked it. I hope you get home soon, but I can think of worse places to be stuck than Glasgow :-)
Love
Helen.