Autumn Walkies

As autumn approaches we can expand our walkies down the hill, the dogs enjoy going further afield and revisiting sites they probably dreamed about as they waited in the air-conditioned rooms for summer to pass. A tradesman I walked passed stopped me and asked if I hunted...literally, "Do you do guns?"...I laughed, and he confirmed he knew many setters were being abandoned as the popularity of hunting wanes in Japan with the ageing population. Beautiful, gifted dogs, he murmured, quiet and well-behaved, as Sherlock jumped on Nobu and knocked me in the jaw as I pulled him off...

Time to get out the knitwear, this is a cowl made to celebrate the 8 million users of the free knitting site, Ravelry. It's the Octo Million Throw designed by Mary Ann Byrd, and each color stripe represents the number of users joining over the twelve years of activity. I've been joining in a celebratory knit-along, it's fun!