Monthly Archives: February 2009

London Calling.

By natalie | Published: 28th February 2009
So, I went to London.London = Knitting shops.More specifically, London = Socktopus and iKnit. First, Socktopus.This is Alice (and Deuce).   All the London pics are phone photos BTW, not proper photos. Alice has set up a great wee shop. It's a cornucopia of yarn I have never seen before, and it's all in one place. Some of it [...]
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Hi honey! I’m home…

By natalie | Published: 27th February 2009
Oooooh and I have so much to tell you but I am absolutely whacked, so I'm going to wait until I am a bit more coherent. I do need to remind you that there are just 24 hours left to sign up for the Lace Club and after that it will be closed until the [...]
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Tea at Socktopus!

By natalie | Published: 26th February 2009
I’ll write properly when I get home, but here is Socktopus!
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Second attempt!

By natalie | Published: 25th February 2009
Just trying out this mobile blogging lark. Photos are of the apple store in Glasgow, and an advert I saw at Edinburgh Waverley last week.
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At the airport.

By natalie | Published: 25th February 2009
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Stuff…

By natalie | Published: 24th February 2009
I am off to London in the morning and won't be back until Friday. I'm going to try and blog with my phone, but I'm not sure how I'll get on so here is a little bit of news. Well, several bits. 1.    There are more spindles and niddy noddies on the way, and they will be here [...]
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Letters and Numbers

By natalie | Published: 24th February 2009
With apologies to anyone who hasn't tried the Quick Crossword in G2 yet this morning. 11 Across:  T_P_R  – Regular drinker 14 Across:  H_R_L_  -  One making proclamations – harbinger HELP! I will be back with more letters and numbers later. Something new for you to try. n
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The Yarn Yard meme – Gimme 5

By natalie | Published: 23rd February 2009
Some memes are huge long things and make you feel quite exhausted before you start (and they can take forever to read as well).This is a very quick one I dreamed up at the weekend, with a final question provided (inadvertently) by another blogger. 1.    What can you hear, right now? Starlings. They have taken up residence [...]
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Sitting on a Park Bench

By natalie | Published: 22nd February 2009
No, I'm not referring to the first line of "Aqualung"… I'm introducing you to the little guy sitting reading a very large book on a sunny park bench on the left. The blog is now connected up to Feedburner. You can use Google's reader (which is the defualt option, because Google own Feedburner), or if [...]
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Thank you, Aknita.

By natalie | Published: 22nd February 2009
Just go and look at this blog post. And then come back and we'll see if we can work out how best to use this fabulous piece of knitting to raise funds for MSF. The original intention was to p/hop it.But it seems altogether too wonderful for that. It could be ebayed (MSF has an ebay account [...]
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