Dublin

What a lovely day it was! I first started off with the wrong foot by knitting for 30 minutes in front of the wrong gazebo. Only when I took a stroll around the park I found the actual gathering. We were first at the band stand, but then the band came and we moved to the lawn to enjoy the music (which was very good!) At one point some drops of rain came down, but they soon gave up as we refused to budge.

There was a good turnout, at one point I counted 27 knitters!  I also met another Finn on holiday,  which was nice as I am usually the sole Nordic knitter in the Dublin groups. 

Today was lovely. It was sunny and really windy, so me and Nick decided to go to Phoenix Park to fly his kite. This is the first time we fly it since arriving in Ireland over 2 years ago!

It was really lovely to see the kite fly! It's amazing how loud it is, when the kite moves through the air.

 While Nick was working the kite, I knit a couple of rows on my new Carolina socks.

For once I had an active weekend, meaning I actually got out of the house, and did something else than knitting, blogging or reading at home. I met my cousin and her husband on Saturday, Nic wanted to come too but was busy. So the three of us went for few pints in the city centre.First we sat in a church that has been trasformed to a pub. No, that was a weird experience. I liked the pub, but the whole idea of drinking in a holy place did kind of freak me out.

The next one was much more traditional Irish pub with music and all. We had our third pint there, and after that it was alreadt time to get home.

Finally a clowdy evening to blog, it's been too beautiful to sit next to the computer.

Like everyone else was at the World Wide Knit In Public day in St.Stephens green on Saturday. Read all about it in Lien's blog, and even more from Diane's or Laura's. There must be more but these are the ones I found / the most comprehensive ones. What can I add? It was great fun and I hope to do these things more often (but this time not to tell it to the Irish Times to avoid conflicts with the police - see Lien's for more on this funny incident).

I knitted a few rows of  Samuel's scarf and the legs of an Apupupu-bunny, for Finnish charity.

Yesterday we finally met my cousin, who moved to Dublin a few months back, but unfortunately I hadn't been able to meet her before (for some reason her number had disappeared from my phone, and the email address didn't work, either!) Well, now we finally got togther. We first took the bus to the city, and see what someone had made: Yes, it is a origami swan made out of a Dublin Bus ticket. It was so lovely, I felt really touched - to make something so beautiful out of such an ordinary and very unaesthetic piece of paper.

Once we got to the centre, we walked up to the Botanic Gardens, where we then met my cousin. The walk around the gardens was lovely, no sound of cars or other noise, just the wind in the trees and a few ducks and squirrel. My cousin told about a redheaded duck which lives in Switzerland, but originally comes from Siberia - oh how I laughed when trying to picture that bird in my head.