Things are slowly happening

I think the first update has to be on the Tom Cat. He got to the cat shelter and then escaped from his cage! He's not been fixed, they've set up loads of traps to catch him and I'll let them know if he turns up here again. He's a wiley wee sod, got to give him that. Apparently even if he doesn't get trapped over there he certainly won't be short on food.

On the garage front we still don't know what's happening; this is what it looks like at the moment.

We've got approval from insurance to put the stuff in storage; we are on a wait list for storage which will probably be around 3-4 weeks.  We'll have to wait and see.
I've rung EQC again, no response from the chap who came out to look, so rang the main number who have (I hope) referred it urgently to Fletchers.   I rang them yesterday, so I'll give them a week before chasing it up.   We were doing some measuring last night and Thomas leaned against the worst wall; he wasn't thinking, but it moved and you could hear it too.   Not a good thing to listen to.

I've not knitted much, but I have finished the crocheted dishcloth for Thomas' Mum.  It turned out quite well luckily, though I did have to add to the side edge as it was getting too long.

It's 100% cotton and I'm not blocking it as it'll be used for dishes.

I'm now about to get back to the spinning for a bit while watching Black Swan.  I'm still working on the same as last time, except the bobbin is almost full

 and I still have this to fit in there; don't think it'll make it, but I'm going to push it as far as I can.

All is well

At least as far as they could see everything looked nice and healthy.   A couple of biopsies taken, but I won't get results on those for at least 7 days.    I had to have the sedation in the end unfortunately due to having had a c-section.  They won't do it without sedation in that case.  As a result I'm still fuzzy headed, but at least I'm now fed!
I know I'm not with it, the number of times I've had to back space to fix my typing on this is huge!

Thomas is still working on cleaning out the garage, I can't help today, but will be back to it tomorrow.    Hopefully also happening tomorrow will be capture of that sodding cat!   If he is caught they'll neuter him, check for microchip and if not owned re-release him here.

No knitting today, I did get some crochet done while waiting for my turn.   Dishcloth is now half done, when it's finished I'll give it to my Mother-In-Law as the one I gave her several years back is very well used and I think she'd appreciate another.   I have tonnes, so don't need them.

Christchurch buildings

I've just watched a film that Breville have put up; it's only available to NZ and Australian viewers and only for today (Friday) and tomorrow.    It's about a guy who went on a juice fast for 60 days and it is truly inspirational.  I've saved it for later viewing, but for those of you who can access it....
juice fast

For some reason it won't let me imbed the youtube video; possibly because blogspot is not NZ based.  I don't think I'll do the 60 days, but I'm going to start juicing at least once a day after the next grocery shop, and might try a shorter fast.

2nd thing, the other day Thomas and I went into town to pick up his bike; that didn't happen due to parts not having been ordered yet, but I did get a couple of photo's using the new camera's telephoto lens.    I think I need one that zooms even further; but that's a long way in the future.
Here's the Hotel Grand Chancellor as it looks now; it's the one on the right next to the tree

Its roof has come off now.   The building to the far left I took a shot of too:

There was a pigeon on one of the beams on the far side, not something you see in most places; pigeons yes, but not like this.   I took one last photo of the street further down on the right; a whole lot of containers there to stop the facade from falling into the street and maybe give them a chance to save it:

You can't actually get down there, the street is blocked off just past that orange sign; still incredibly dangerous in the red zone and I found out today that the bus tours are now all booked up, so my procrastination means I won't get in there.

On to more positive things, I've done some more knitting on T's sock:

Really pleased with them so far, just 36 more rows to go!   Might even get them finished at the guild meeting tomorrow.  Speaking of the guild, our Christmas lunch is on Sunday and as well as the fibre challenge (I made Sheepie for that) the theme for the year was containers.  Yesterday I hooked myself a container for my cellphone, slightly too big and then felted it!

This was using  a remnant of some worsted weight felted singles I had from a now defunct local yarn business.  Lovely to work with and it's perfect for my phone!  I'll show it off at the guild lunch; didn't think I'd have anything to show for that, but I saw a need and luckily it fitted with the theme.  I used an online tutorial for inspiration, but really did my own thing; it's in double crochet (English terminology, single crochet for the Americans reading this)

Tomorrow I might do a review of the latest Interweave Knits that arrived today; some gorgeous vintage looking items in there, a couple I don't like so much, but still worth getting in my opinion.