A lot of good intentions...

Our resolutions for this new year are mainly common sense, given the financial situation - reduce, re-use, be thrifty, and no shopping! I also have a lot of good intentions regarding my new job, which I will start on Monday. It's a chance for me to finish my induction year and get fully qualified, and to work in a really nice school - after 2 terms of supply, and 2 terms in a distinctly average school, it will be a treat just to go to work every day without the expectation of abuse from ill-mannered teenagers. Today's good intentions to get prepared and organised for Monday, however, did not materialise. (Nor did yesterday's. Tomorrow I will have no choice!)
Instead of being good and doing my homework, as it were, I have been tidying up after xmas and fiddling about with this and that... That travel knitting I cast on on Wednesday has already become one finished sock, for a start! Stripey funky sock!
I also, yesterday, finally finished addressing the issue of storing all my knitting needles: The straight ones live mostly in two whisky tins on the windowsill:
...along with a few hand spindles, and other bits and bobs, and I'm relatively happy with this. It sometimes takes me a minute or two to find a pair in the same size, but that's not too big a problem, as I don't need to do it that often. Last year sometime, inspired by the pencil roll in last-minute patchwork and quilted gifts, I made an organiser for my DPNs (bottom one in picture below), and then a second one a few months ago for circular needles . Unfortunately it didn't comfortably hold the bigger ones, and wasn't quite big enough - I miscounted the pockets. So yesterday I made this extra one to hold the rest (top one in picture below):
I didn't realise I'd got the rainbow the other way until afetrwards! But I like the effect... :-D
Do you think maybe that I like rainbows?

Not as much, however, as chickens love corn. They will do anything for corn - and it's probably a good job they had a treat yesterday, as they had to be doused with red mite powder today. Poor dusty chickens - now they're all sitting about looking grumpy and trying to clean their feathers.