The house is eerily empty today. Just me and Rose and the cat occasionally popping in and out. So after making a start of clearing through six weeks’ worth of dust, we gave up and went shopping for bargain yarn instead.
Lidl occasionally have yarn in on special offer. Usually it’s just something acrylic that doesn’t interest me, but this time they have actual wool/nylon sock yarn and that interests me greatly. 
Four 50g balls for £2.99 is a bargain and I snapped up some navy and grey solids and some green and brown variegated. I was tempted to buy some of all the solids, just because they’d be handy for mittens, but I resisted. The yarn feels fairly soft which surprised me; softer than Opal or Trekking, which is my benchmark for softness-of-sock-yarn. I think it might suit being knitted fairly tightly. And of course now I have potential for six pairs of handknitted socks for less than nine quid which is not to be sniffed at. 
Woohoo for bargain yarn!
oooh bargain indeed! good shout, i must pop down to lidl…
Now, THAT is a bargain! And the yarn even looks good. Usually when I find yarn on sale it is in surprising colors.
Ooh that looks nice! I bought some of their “old” sock yarn about a year ago and it was withdrawn from sale shortly afterwards as being “not fit for purpose”. The reason they gave was that it wasn’t machine-washable but had been labelled “sock yarn”. Apparently that is a contradiction in terms… hmmmm….!