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Hi all, I've got lots of things to tell, so I'm splitting things up in several posts so I don't mix subjects... hey, I'll even try to tell things chronologically 
As you all know, I'm never really doing nothing. So when you don't hear from me I'm probably writing, programming, knitting, biking or doing some other hobby I've come up with. But sometimes I also meet up with my Belgian friends when you're not hearing from me 
Two weeks ago (already! time flies...), M. and I met up in Paris to chitchat and visit the "Musée d'Orsay". It was really wonderful. I really like hanging out with him and even though I only managed to catch my TGV back to Nantes with two seconds to spare I am still enjoying the memory.
Btw, I don't think I've ever ran this hard to catch my train! I ran from the subway all the way to the international trainstation like the nutjob that I am. It made me realize that maybe I should start running again in my spare time. Anyway, I was sweating and entirely out of breath when I reached my seat. And I am seriously sorry for the person whom had to sit next to me 
But I caught the train with only a few seconds to spare! The doors closed and the train left as soon as I had found my seat (don't make yourself the illusion that the train was waiting for me).
Do you know what's really amusing to find out? That your train is leaving in an instant and your coach is on the other end of the train If you ever took the TGV to Nantes from Paris, you know that's an incredibly long train when you're out of time...
The person that sat next to me was a woman about the same age as my mother and together with her husband is in charge of a IT-related company in a nearby village.
But we didn't start talking about that, actually. We started talking because after I was done catching my breath and drinking the last of the water I had on me, I had started knitting.
Knitting is my latest pass time in the TGV since I do not depend on batteries or electricity to be able to make the time pass quicker.
What made it funnier was that I was knitting in the same colour scheme as the one of the inside of the TGV. I swear it was not intentionally. Whom would've guessed they would make a pink and purple TGV?
Anyway, the woman next to me started talking about knitting and how she discovered an actual knitting technique when she had been in a similar situation. There had been this woman in the waiting hall for the TGV one day, she told me, whom had seen her knitting. The woman had come up to her and had taught her an actual technique in which you do not let go off your needles when you're knitting.
And off course she had to ask whether I used another technique when knitting. Realizing full well that I do not have any technique whatsoever when knitting I showed her and she came to the same conclusion. I'm a n00b.
But I was interested in the technique she told me about, so I handed her my needles and she showed me. And while it seemed easy, it wasn't as much as I tried it the first few stitches... Old habits die hard... on top of that, I was knitting something I had never done before in my life which made it even more difficult. But I didn't let the challenge pass.
The heel of the sock I was knitting was doomed, especially when I tried to return on my steps and the whole thing just went to a disarray of threads...
But I tried the technique again on my own for an hour to see whether I could get used to it. And honestly I think I could. It's hard getting passed old habits though, but all I need is practice.
The test I knitted with the Lang Wool I bought at Leuven (BE):
So a few days later, still feeling bad about my doomed sock whom had cost me several hours to make and now had returned to practically nothing, I was surfing the web. After clicking some links on my mothers blog, I found out that someone on the internet whom had bought the same book I had bought to knit the sock I had wanted to knit, had succeeded where I had failed. If that doesn't make you feel any more stupid, I don't know what does. Anyway, I looked at the book again only to frown more profoundly and then left it alone to search the description on the internet. Maybe someone else had a more clear description?
As it turns out, Regia (the brand of wool), had a very similar description, but with a paragraph or two more on how to actually knit the heel!
There you go, I thought, that's more like it
But lazy me hasn't put the description to the test yet. Because last weekend I felt so courageous that I have spent all my time cleaning up the apartment, constructing furniture, cleaning up again and admiring the new plant I had bought. Honestly, I didn't spend two days doing that, I off course had to go riding on Sunday, which was very lovely as well.
For the Dutch speaking community:
De bewuste link : http://linesfrummelhoekje.web-log.nl/lines_frummelhoekje/2007/12/boemerang_hiel.html en helaas vind ik de link naar de beschrijving van Regia niet meer ...