Yesterday was a mini adventure for me. I left the house at 6am, some would be fooled into thinking that I was leaving for a day in the office but no - I was going somewhere far more exciting than that. By 7.30 I was on a RyanAir flight to Frankfurt Hahn airport. By 10.30 local time I was on a shuttle bus to Frankfurt main railway station and at about 11.45 I was meeting Alison for the first time.

We had about 3 hours to shop and gossip before I had to be back on the bus so we made the most of it and visited 2 yarn stores and had a nice lunch. The third yarn store we made it to looked amazing but they were just closing as we got there so we had to make do with looking through the window imagining how lovely the yarn would be. Such a shame.

I've never seen so much Regia in one place! Both stores we visited had balls and balls of it, I've never knit with any although I do have a ball that I won in a Harlot contest a few weeks ago. I ended up not buying any yarn at all, partly because I couldn't decide what I wanted and partly because I do have a whole garage full of sock yarn back at home. It was nice to visit a yarn store and not see the usual Rowan, Patons, Sirdar collection though. We also found handknit socks on sale for 12 euro, I was tempted to buy a pair and pass them off as my own but none of them were quite right..

It was a great day, although a little too brief, and with RyanAir's sale, the return flights including taxes cost me less than a days train ticket into London would have done. In fact the flights were only 1 penny each way, the tax was a little more but it was a nice reasonable and easy day. I spent a lot of time on the bus or the plane which was totally relaxing for me. I read 2 magazines, 2 books, made a lot of lists and sketched out a few projects that I really need to find time to start. I also managed to sleep all the way back to Hahn airport on the bus which was lovely. Afternoon naps are my favourite.

So all of that in a day and I still managed to get back home in time for dinner with the kids, it was just like going into London to work for the day - only a whole lot more fun. You'll have to wait for Alison to post the photos that she took of the yarn stores, I remembered my camera but the batteries were flat. Doh!

Funniest moment of the day? That had to be while waiting to board the flight on the way back, the German police were walking around with big Alsation dogs who were sniffing at everyone's bags and coats, I was slightly worried that they would sniff out my smuggled in hand luggage bamboo knitting needles but they passed me by without issue. The lady next to me who was eating a Mars Bar was not so lucky as the dog snatched it out of her hand and ate it! I've never seen so much panic as there was on the policeman's face, he was FURIOUS with the dog. Everyone thought that it was hilarious and the policeman took it quite well in the end. I can imagine that stern words were had with the dog when he got him out of site of the public though!

I'm getting quite sociable in my old age it would appear. I had lunch with Juju on Monday, the kids and I paid a visit to Carolyn on Saturday where Brooke and Cam got to terrorise the goats, we watched a kid being born, Brooke screamed in terror of the dogs while Cam shouted woof woof at them and we had a beautiful lunch. It was a good day but I think that all the animals (and the humans too!) were glad when we left them to their peace and quiet! Both children slept all the way home in the car from that one so I had another hour or so of peace and quiet. I could get used to it I think.