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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Turning the page.
There is a group on ravelry called 52 books in 52 weeks.I am not going to join it. I try to limit the groups I am in because I would get nothing done at all, ever, if I joined every group which looked intriguing.
But I find myself asking if a book a week is [...]
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Village to close.
The 1,000 year old village of Stony Bridgeford in Oxfordshire is going to close because it is no longer viable.
I'm not big on New Year resolutions, because I always end up breaking them.
January is a stupid time of year to resolve to run 5 miles a day in the dark and the wet and [...]
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Things I have discovered in December.
That using bloglines is a very clever way to get all your favourite blogs sent to you.
That they aren't actually sent to you. You have to visit bloglines and they are all sitting there waiting for you to read instead of clogging up your inbox which is where I thought they would be. Silly me.
That [...]
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Very Clever Knitters
Just a quick post to show you a couple of things recently finished by Yarn Yard knitters.
Sue chose some yarn at Woolfest and I dyed a solid or two to go with what she had selected. The main body of the jumper is in mauve and variegated, the sleeves are in mauve, variegated and lime [...]
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Silly, really.
This week is going to be quite silly. I have a ridiculous amount to do and I can't really see a Shop Update materialising on Thursday, not least because I will be sitting in a school hall listening to a concert at eight o'clock in the evening.So I will just add yarn to the shop [...]
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Knit your own wellies?
I promised photos yesterday and just ran out of time. So here, for your delectation are the first of the Sweater Packs of fibre.
They are in the shop.
These are offered in packs of 5 braids which is 500g. And this time they are all BFL superwash.It's surprisingly tricky to dye identical fibres. I make my [...]
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Sprouts, Swallowtail and Sweaters
My veg bag has arrived. This week we have
tatties – nice big ones so maybe for baking as well as other things
carrots
onions
beetroot
a kohl rabi
white cabbage – not one of the frothy leafy ones
a crown of baby brussels sprouts
two leeks
two heads of broccoli
a box of beansprouts – not the wimpy supermarket kind, but a mixture [...]
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And the other five.
The second five of my top ten books are a little quirky.
The Diary of a Farmer's Wife 1796-1797
The link is to the amazon page with a photo of the book, but if you search for the title only you can pick this gem up for a penny, just like Happenstance from yesterday.Anne Hughes wrote [...]
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And…
… we have a new comments system, so you can reply to comments written by other people and create "conversations" and threads within the comments.If someone says "Yes I adore Alan Bennett too" and you want to reply to them "yes, and Talking Heads is the greatest thing on TV" then your comment will be [...]
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