February

February, and one of the warmest on record.  We continued work on our allotment, planting up the whole onion bed.  Usually, February brings the rain and in Essex that means that all the field paths are turned into quagmires.  But not this year. No good will come of it, as someone said.

We enjoy walking along a secluded ancient lane - Pantlings Lane - several miles from our village.  Oddly the village church is clearly visible in the distance, even though it is at the other side of the village.  There is a small rise leading up through the churchyard but it certainly does not stand on an obvious hill.

So far, so bucolic -   but look the other way, over the hedge and there is this enormous gravel workings excavating the gravels laid down by the River Blackwater.

After all that charity knitting, something new.  Someone posted a link to a site in Russian which included the chart for an unusual cable design.  Now, I'm not really a fan of asymmetry, but this one has some appealing features.  On the original, the cable panel was repeated twice across the width just placing the panels side by side.  I decided to mirror-image the panels which introduces some symmetry.  As people used to say: you won't see yourself coming and going in this.