(includes re-reads - does not include essays, single poems, articles etc.)

• Sara Maitland: A Book of Silence
• Simon Schama: A History of Britain (excerpts - late 18th/early 19th centuries)
• Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• Sarah Andress, Peter Nesbitt, &c.: Letters to a Young Artist
• Tim Dee: The Running Sky

WOOL!:

• 2 x balls rowan big wool-
• 2 x balls rowan handknit cotton-
• 1 x ball black DK-

NEEDLES! (all wooden/bamboo):

• 10 mm
• 12 mm-
• 4.5mm-
• 3.5mm

AND ALSO!:

• a tape measure

AND UNRELATED TO KNITTING!:

• some filler, to fill holes in the gallery wall...

• heavy with cold
• knitting softly in bluegreengrey
• '3ème sexe' by miss kittin
• intangible unnameable inescapable sadness, or regret
• kinski sing-songing
• sam playing drums, elsewhere, somewhere, happy
• my body betrays me: an immovable object. (and this is the problem with solidness.)

from sam:

• a good cup of tea upon waking
• tiny bird-mirror
• bird necklace(!)
• a lovely notebook (penguin books design yay!)
• the beatles anthology dvd box!
• lovely new diana camera (heart heart heart)
• the most wonderful birthday-card ever

from others:

• 'lost crafts' book (sam's mother)
• handmade crescent moon (steve)
• 'letters to a young artist' book (tamarin)
• polaroid film!! (emily)
• philosophy 'vanilla birthday cake' shampoo/shower gel/bubble bath/cake receipe (sam m. & natalie)
• jar of assorted sweet-smelling bath items...

• hand in bluecoat application
• create better "professional" cv
• come up with some way of making money this month
• breathe

and reward myself by...

• knitting myself a pair of owl-gloves

• distant plane like slow and silent cloud
• the deepest palest winter light
• swirls of ice on the roofs of all the cars
• a row of five green spruce-trees; still
• a crow's call cracks and echoes
• stillness