A dramatic day in the mountains for the cyclists, including the Alp d’Huez twice!

It is still hot here but at least there is a little bit of a breeze today which has been nice. Poor Paul has a nasty bug and had a very unpleasant night. Fortunately he has stopped being sick today but has still felt dreadful and absolutely wiped out, and hasn’t been able to eat anything. Hopefully he will be able to sleep a bit better tonight and will feel a bit better tomorrow. Fortunately for me I don’t seem to have caught it yet.

Today I started spinning some shetland. I bought a kilo of this from the Shetland Sheep Society at Wonderwool Wales last year, so there is enough for a jumper. I started off by making myself a reference card.

I am a slow spinner, and spinning a kilo will take me several months. My reference card is handy to make sure that my yarn at the beginning is at least similar to the yarn at the end, and so I wont end up with a jumper with one thin sleeve or something odd 🙂 At least that is the theory!

Today’s coin is a French 50 Euro Cents for Christophe Riblon’s very impressive win.