At a more mundane and less career-damaging level, I feel much the same about my Tour de France knitting project - Eunny Jang's Tangled Yoke Cardigan.
It is almost with relief that I've admitted to myself that I have no hope of achieving my goal and finishing it before the end of the Tour on Saturday. Like Cadel, this doesn't mean I'm giving up the race (or a least I hope he isn't) but it does mean I'm reconciled to not achieving as well as I had hoped. I have really truly tried; but it just seems to take so much time and energy to get a little done when others are streaking ahead. But I have adjusted my goals - I'm now determined at least to get to the eponymous tangled yoke - and will continue on.
There are rumours that Cadel feels his team has contributed to his failures. Certainly my current team - the dotee and her mother - have contributed to my lack of outcome, but in a most pleasantly distracting way. How's this for a distraction...
...and such a quintessential Sydney distraction - Sunday breakfast out, complete with babycchino.
5 comments:
Oh for a Sydney coffee! Nottingham's is more like what I got on the Central Coast - ie, rubbish.
Your knitting looks as if it's progressing pretty fast, all in all!
Poor old Cadel, though.
The photo of the dotee brightened my morning. What a delightful distraction indeed! And the cardi looks perfect!
oh so cute. methinks she likes that cardi! and i too have adopted the cadel position. i am only half way down the body after two early spills but have no one but myself to blame for that!
Poor Cadel, he's just lost the mental battle hasn't he.
I know you can do it!! Doesn't it end on Sunday?? I'm really counting on that extra day!
Love the picture of your distraction - so very cute and the cardi is just divine.
Look I think that was always going to be an ambitious hill climb, getting a 5ply cardi with a big cable done in the time of the race, but I bet you'ev made some really good headway! Push on and do your best I say.
ps CUTE!!!
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