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Crochet and Cannabis!

• 8 July 2010 3:56 am

I am aware that I have been lacking on the posting front.  I have been crocheting but I can’t seem to settle to any one thing at the minute, my shops have been neglected, ideas started and left, for some reason I have 3 books on the go at the minute when I’m not particualry doing much reading, even the house is starting to complain about it’s severe neglect.

On the plus side the insurance have come through, so we can finally get the back room sorted which should spur me on.    I don’t think I mentioned that before, did I?  It turns out our lovely quiet neighbours were in fact cultivating a cannabis factory in their house, £800,000.00 worth. 

I used to see these people being interviewed on the news saying that they had no idea that Mr and Mrs A were doing various horrible things next door to them and think, ‘how unobservant can you be’, well errmmm…

I am in and out a lot, we have our bedroom windows open most of the year, I pride myself on my sense of smell though admittidly I’m not that observant, George Clooney could walk in front of me and I probably wouldn’t notice (unless he was carrying a pile of wool of course).

Turns out the police had them under observation for a while – how I didn’t hear them coming and going with SHED LOADS of soil and irrigation stuff I don’t know.  The police knocked on my door to warn me they were going to raid it and to ask me if I had noticed anything.  The stupid thing is I wouldn’t let them in because they were in plain clothes, I don’t know what a police card looks like and to be honest they looked dodgy the way they were both crowding in the door way!  “No”, I said  “they’re lovely, polite, friendly and very quiet, we probably make more noise than them I joked!”  “Didn’t you smell anything?” they asked?

So it was all very exciting for a day, lots of police, a bit of running about and a lovely smell pervaded the street for a couple of days as they emptied the house - then the water started coming through.  Though it did take a couple of days for super observant me to notice.  I did notice a shadow on the wall by the door, over a couple of days… then I saw it at night and thought, ‘that can’t still be a shadow’ (I do get there eventually) put my hand on it and the wall paper started to fall away.  It has now spread into the kitchen and started to bring the floor up, the lesson being drugs bad, insurance good!

So, that is getting sorted, I however am not, so I thought in my great tradition of list writing, I am going to list not everything, duh, that would take a week in itself, no, just the important stuff – crochet:

• finish of the lace weight shawl for friend
• finish of the backs of the 3 cushion fronts I’ve worked while footy has been on
• sew the above cushions together
• finish of crafteroo challange of space invader themed object (don’t ask)
• find a way to open the door to my workroom
• buy cotton and get on with next idea for Beads and Beyond mag before next week
• finish off 2 new scarflette ideas I’ve almost done
• make birthday pressie for niece
• DO NOT START ANYTHING NEW INCLUDING THE NEW PATTERN AND WOOL I’VE JUS T SECRETLY BOUGHT

There are several other UFO’s but being UFO’s for so long now I don’t think they count?

Finally to prove I am crocheting, a peek at my space invader concoction:

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