ok, so im back again, mainly out of frustration. my very lovely uncle has created me a new site. it is very cool, and called knitrageous and i love it very much. i do not wish to be the purl girl any longer. one of the reasons for this is that as a 19 year old i feel a little bit more of a woman and also, knitrageous sounds way cooler.

i dont want to upset my uncle by not using the very cool site he has given me, but unfortunately, it never seems to be working, and im feeling a little blog urge, i will try to work out how to do links and link to my other blog in the future. however i am going to keep using this blog until all the glitches are worked out of my new one and when it is hopefully working all good i will give you my link (if there is anyone out there in cyberspace) and you can follow me to my home.

right now im thinking of it like i think of home when im at uni. i want to go there because there is good food and someone who does my washing (in blog terms that is prettier colours and my own personal layout) but when i get back home i start arguing with my dad and the chores are piled up high (my blogs wont save and the pictures have to be put in using this really complicated code and it is wayyy to complicated).

ANYWAY

since i last blogged i went to uni. i now study journalism and creative writing at middlesex, whichis right in london and i love london and it is the best city ive ever been to woooo.

i was very worried about making friends.

these are my two new best friends...

on the left is ashleigh, thats me in the middle and on the right is issy! they both rock my socks off and i have made them both knitters!!! ashleigh is a little less enthusiastic due to the scark i started her off on which she handed me back and asked me to "fix" because it had double the amount of stitches she casted on with and it was a plain garter stitch scarf.

issy however has taken knitting on like a trooper, she made her mum a scarf with a bit of a pattern! for her first project and then carried on by making her boyfriend a scarf for xmas!! after the hols im going to teach her to make socks!!! at the moment she is terribly afraid, but do not worry my friends. i will convert her!!

i have taken on knitting all my xmas pressies this year, but so far i have hope for the future! for the first xmas ever im actually on target with the presents! this has never happened before! im not saying there wont be some hard days to come were there will be no communicating and knitting only, but im getting there! failure is not an option.

i shall now give you a quick list of the best or most memorable things that have happened since i went to uni...

1. i became a halls rep (unnoposed so cannot relish in winning the election) which means i have to help people with probs in the uni halls etc.

2. i went to i knit london and london stitch and bitch knit nights. i have not been regularly to either of these knit nights but after xmas i plan to choose one, i cant decide yet because i kint london is in the shop so i can buy yarn (always a bonus) and london stitch n bitch is normally in different places so i can see a bit more of the city and they do all sorts of fun things that the shop doesnt etc. i think this decision will be influenced by whether issy decides to come with me, she is a very bossy lady (in the best sense) and will help me pick.

3. i love my course, i couldnt imagine any course of education that i would ever really love but i can truly say that this is the best thing i have ever done.

4. i went to stand outside the premeire of NINE in leicester square and we got there late and thought we wouldnt see anyone and then...

that my friends is nicole kidman! and i shook her hand!!!

it was such a good day that i can barely believe it happened to me and im so glad i took the pics otherwise i would have thought it was a dream. we then waited until after the premeire, well, we may have sneaked off and got a cheeseburger... and after we waited and watched them all get into their cars and we saw judi dench and penelope cruz and nicole again!! i never thought id be the kind to get totally blown away by celebraties but i totally am!

and talking of premeires, we then went to the premiere of st trinians 2 (and i took one of the giant boards with the pic of the film on and put it on my wall at uni) and saw gemma arterton and all of girls aloud except cheryl and rupert everitt and the noisettes and paloma faith etc. but was a little dissapointed about that one because david tennant and colin firth were supposed to be there and in the end neither of them turned up.

after that i cant think of anything else exciting to talk about HA, though i will post again tomoro and in it i shall show you the goodies i got at the knitting and stitching show at alexandra palace which was ages ago but i havent managed to blog about it yet. im still reeling about the fact that one of those great knitting things was only 3 tube stops and a free shuttle bus ride away from uni! god i love london!!!