We are now a day behind the cyclists, but have had a very enjoyable evening eating curry and playing Race To The Galaxy with Ian (I came last both games 🙂 ).

I have also done the next skein of plying my alpaca / merino. I’m afraid the photo is rather dark because it has been wet again here, and I didn’t finish the plying til late when it was even darker. I shall give this a wash in the morning, and the measure it when it has dried.

Today’s coin is another French one, a 2 Euro Cent.

We are still half a day behind watching the cyclists, but are having a lovely time watching all the beautiful Belgian and now French countryside, and interesting buildings. It really does work as a wonderful advert for visiting that part of the world.

I have started the plying on my alpaca / merino. One skein done!

This was actually using the three bobbins worth of singles that I spun before the tour started. It is a 3ply but I haven’t measured how much it weighs or how many metres I have yet, I shall do that when it has finished drying.

Today’s coin is a French 1 Euro as the tour has now entered France.

First off a quick correction, the other day I said that Fabian Cancellara was Italian, which is complete rubbish, he is actually Swiss. I knew that, so I don’t know what I was on about. Hopefully my brain will return soon.

Today was spinning group at Ash so I had a lovely time spinning some more of my alpaca / merino and catching up with everyone. I spun some more this evening while we caught up with yesterday’s cycling, and started watching today’s. We are still half a stage behind real life, but perhaps tomorrow will be the day we catch up 🙂

Today’s coin is a Belgian 10 cent, since this is the last day in Belgium.

I have finished my fibre, and this is the last of the singles! (I bet you are glad I wont be showing you three weeks worth of brown!)

I am planning to 3ply this, and am looking forward to starting that tomorrow.

I spent today demo-ing spinning with the West Surrey Guild of Spinners, Weavers, and Dyers so got quite a bit of spinning done, but we have recorded the cycling, and only managed to watch half so far. Hopefully we will catch up tomorrow.

Today’s spinning is at the front, with yesterday’s behind. The coin is a Belgian 2 Euro coin since today’s stage was in Belgium.