Simple socks

There isn't anything more relaxing to knit.

Alexander McCall Smith

If you aren't already reading Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, please give it a try. You don't have to like crime novels, it isn't a crime novel actually. The only disadvantage is probably that you want to move to Botswana after reading these books, to meat Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makuts, Mr J.LB. Matekoni and all the others. McCall Smith has such a simple but beautiful style of writing, and the books just make you (æhhh that is = me) feel good.



But this isn't just about books. It's about bread too!

Only for book freaks!

I love books, and I love to read about what books other people read, so I love this found at Berlin's Whimsy
:


Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read,
* Italicize the ones you want to read
* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) Don't like it, I would categorize it as suitable for teenager-who-doesn't-read-much
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: TwoTowers(Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Quite sure I read it, but I don't remember anything...
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Started reading it and thought it was booooring
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams) Read only half of it
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

I've been sewing!

I've been sewing... a jacket!



It took me (absolutely sewing-beginner) about a week to finish. I followed a pattern from Burda easy fashion, which I can highly recommend for beginners. They have step-by-step instruction with pictures, so if you don't understand what they write ("Untere Besatzzugaben an der Schößchenansatznaht nach oben legen...") looking at the pictures usually helps. Putting in the arms was a nightmare tho...

It's still full of loose ends, and lots of mistakes, so don't look too closely, but I LOVE IT!!!

This and that and sewing

It is SO nice to be on holidays, why can't they last like forever? I've been baking a little, and cooking. I tried crazyauntpurl's recipe for fried okra.



We ate it with cream potatoes and left-over meat. All together it was a nice dish, the potatoes were perfect, but I'm not entirely convinced about those deep-fried okra thingies. I'll have to try them again tho!



It has been raining a lot, but the flowers on my balcony still look pretty.



One of the things I like about knitting is that it is so tidy, you have a little yarn and some needles, and maybe a knitting book lying around, and that's it. Sewing on the other hand mean total chaos in our small apartment. This also means I don't start on sewing projects when I'm busy with work for example. Also I started sewing only about a year ago or so, when I got my sewing machine, so this prolly makes it more chaotic.

Well it started quite innocently:





And now it looks like this o.O

Walk with me (to a sewing shop)

There actually has been some progress on construction site 1:



Construction site 2 on the other hand still looks like this:



Even though there doesn't seem to be any progress, they do make a lot of noise. And so do our new neighbours.

So I thought I'd go for a walk.

This house is just around the corner, I'd loooove to own it. Obviously it doesn't look like anyone lives there at all, but there is a sign saying that there is video surveillance!



Probably the ugliest building in Nord-Vest is the Novozymes building, so I thought it was kinda funny when I saw this:



Unlocking the magic of nature? Æh?

I also find this mormonchurch thingie rather spooky:



And yet another strange church. Also some mormon thing?





What I did like was on the other side of the road. First I thought it was a flower shop, so it immediately caught my interest. The I realized it was no shop at all, it was just filled with flowers. But when I got even closer, I realized it was filled with all kinds of bird as well!!! Unfortunatly I wasn't able to take any pictures of the birds.



All around Copenhagen, hidden behind ugly new houses, there are houses like this one, really old, and u prolly wouldn't want to live in it, but so beautiful:





In contrast to huge villas like this one:

All kinds of stuff

OooOOoooo I love it when people leave comments!!! Thanks NH Knitting Mama !

Walk with me to summerstartsschoolyearisoverforteacherstoo-party! This is some of what I see when I go to work.



Unfortunately it takes about an hour of public transport (hell!) to get to work.



I do like this house, and waiting for the train I imagine what it would be like to live there.




Home again I've been baking a lot. Even more than I wanted, because yesterday I made a perfect looking bread, but soon I realized I hadn't used baking paper, but instead some parchment, which had become part of the bread :@.

This chocolate cake was a bigger success tho. It's a sadly-we-didnt-get-tickets-to-the-roskilde-festival cake.



And a new bread.