Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen, we daren't go a-hunting, for fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, trooping all together. Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather!

I am very bored.  Did I mention that?  I have been driven to such things as scrubbing the grouting between the kitchen floor tiles, sorting out the yarn stash and vacuming the beams to get rid of spiders' webs.  Luckily, I have Pinterest to keep me going.  Some weeks ago Nikki mentioned Maggie Neale's Pinterest page and I have been following keenly ever since.  Every time I visit Pinterest there is a lovely array of pictures to gaze at and, when you follow the links to other pinners, lots more beautiful things.  So much to look at and, luckily, so much time to spare!

Also, so much time to knit.  Following on from the dragons last week, I now give you the following mythical creatures spotted in the garden .....

 Knitted gnomes....

 Knitted elves (or are they imps?).  Every time I look at these boys I think Jedward ...

and a knitted troll (or is it a goblin?) who has has clearly been going to the gym and working out to develop those muscles.

Romance and Northern Man .....

Northern Man is bored.  He is working from home to help me following the removal of the hallux valgus last week which is a sign of his love - or so he would have me believe.  Personally I suspect that it is a practise run for retirement, something I have been discouraging vigourously.  I know nobody less suited to a sedentary life than my husband as this week has conclusively proved, to me if not to him.

He has always had, right from the very beginning of mobile telephone technology, a work 'phone and he is supposed to pay for any private calls he makes from it.  So bored was he yesterday that he decided to work out how much he owed his employers for calls made over the last few years and he started with me.  Last year, my husband spent £10.40 calling me from his mobile.  Who says romance is dead?

I am bored too.  Many people, I know, would love to be told that they had to spend 6 weeks off their feet, preferably lying down with one foot elevated above the level of the heart.  It would be all their summer holidays come at once.  Not me - I'm just bored:  can't drive so can't go to a car boot sale; can't walk so can't enjoy the weather or the countryside;can't cook, shop, clean, launder - ok, so it's not all bad.  But I can knit!  Here are the latest creations ....

Dragon rampant and Dragon couchant ...