There are a couple of category 4 climbs in today’s stage. Today I had a little bit of a climb myself as Lisa taught me longdraw at spinning group. I haven’t got the hang of it yet, but I think I understand what I am meant to be doing, it is just a question of actually doing it 🙂

She let me use some of her rolags too. She is also doing the Tour de Fleece and one of her challenges is to spin a mile in one day. Which she has calculated will take 240 rolags. Crikey. I don’t think I have spun a mile altogether since I learned to spin, the idea of doing it all in one day is rather boggling. Go Lisa!

So this is a bit of longdraw:

Lisa spun the good bits, I spun the wonky bits 🙂

Indoor photos again today as the weather is still wet and grotty. The carpet is drying out and we think we have solved the mystery. The gutters didn’t seem to be draining and the rain was so hard that it was flooding the area just outside the back door and welling up through the concrete floor inside. I went out this morning to see if I could sort the gutters, and discovered rather a lot of wasps, so I think the problem is a wasps nest blocking the gutter. I have booked someone in to sort it out on Friday so I am hoping it wont rain too heavily before then!

I have been having a break from the grey Dorset today, and have been spinning a bit more of the black Shetland. It is lovely stuff to spin, very soothing. Paul has a collection of US quarters (25 cents, quarter of a dollar, they are about the same size as a 10p piece) so I thought I would borrow one of them for today’s photo. So here is my Shetland, with a New Jersey quarter:

I picked NJ because we have been there a few times and Paul lived there for a few months when he first started his current job. The area of NJ he lived in was actually rather like Surrey.