Monthly Archives: March 2009

Migration

By natalie | Published: 30th March 2009
Any birdwatcher will tell you that this time of year is exciting. It's migration time.All sorts of birds you haven't seen since last year are about to appear in your back garden, under the eaves, and flying overhead, tantalisingly close. Out come the binoculars and the bird identification guides and many an hour is spent [...]
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Weekend wanderings.

By natalie | Published: 28th March 2009
There are lots of links in this post, and I think they should all open in on new pages in your browser, but don't forget to come back here to see all of them if you get side-tracked … no wandering off in a daze! Friday was a bit of a blur so the Update for [...]
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Taking Stock

By natalie | Published: 26th March 2009
I'll be taking the shop offline in the morning to stock-take, update yarn quantities and load new yarns onto the shelves, so if you are visiting, don't worry, it will be open again later with new colours to peruse/consider/admire. I'm planning to get the drum carder out too… There is still time to vote in the polls, [...]
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Questions.

By natalie | Published: 25th March 2009
I know many of my readers and customers are users of ravelry, but a lot of you are occasional rather than frequent visitors to the ravelry site, and although I have a group over there called The Garden Shed, my blog stats tell me that I have significantly more blog visitors and subscribers than there [...]
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L(ace) plates.

By natalie | Published: 24th March 2009
So, I went to SkipNorth.This is the story of last year (with lots of photos of stained glass). This year, Isabella and I went down a day early, it's a four to five hour drive and we didn't want to be exhausted by the time we got there, and we also didn't want to be late [...]
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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig.

By natalie | Published: 23rd March 2009
Got home last night after four days away at SkipNorth.Very tired.Information to follow on… Aggressive female drivers who honk at strangers in a threatening manner causing me to feel the need to lock us in the car at a junction in Huddersfield. Mankinholes. Hill-starts on junctions where the driver behind you (a different one) thinks it's amusing to [...]
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Pete

By natalie | Published: 18th March 2009
Go and look at this. Click to watch the film. Amazing. We did that. Thank you. n PS If everyone who reads this blog, blogged it and twittered it, how soon could we reach the first £1,000 ?
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Beckoning Gussets.

By natalie | Published: 18th March 2009
I am feeling very clever. Not only have I mistressed Judy's magic cast on… …iPhone pics again for speed. But I have taught myself to cable (yes I know it's not rocket science, but I've never done it before). And although the pattern didn't tell me to, I reversed the cable for the other side of the foot! The only [...]
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Challenges

By natalie | Published: 16th March 2009
Challenge 1. Get all Clubs in the post by Thursday.Not as easy as it sounds, the admin and packing and all that takes ages and despite constant cross-referencing (sometimes VERY cross referencing) it seems that there is always a miscount between the parcels I think I should have and the parcels I actually do have. This [...]
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Hide and Peek

By natalie | Published: 13th March 2009
Last weekend I had a table at the Woolfish Festival, I met lots of lovely people and was very fortunate to have the help all day of Lucy, who just plonked her knitting down next to the table and pitched in. She brought me tea and more tea (and you know how I like a [...]
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