The stillness before christmas

Wishing you all a happy 1st of advent - now begins the time when I perhaps feel at my most swedish, surrounded by candles and lights.
As I am home with flu, I've had a chance to make a little start on a Chinook scarf in some delicious Malabrigo Worsted I bought in Finland at the weekend....much much more about that as soon as I regain the capacity to string sensible sentences together!