Monthly Archives: November 2009

I know it’s a bit of a cop out but….

By natalie | Published: 30th November 2009
…. I am tired, and my other half has written about today in much more detail than I am capable of at the moment. You can find him at http://fegrig.blogspot.com/ I think you might need to copy and paste because the phone app isn’t up to proper links. Leave him a comment if you like, he has [...]
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Achey Breaky Feet

By natalie | Published: 29th November 2009
Some people go to art galleries and museums when they go on holiday. Some people enjoy fine dining. Many people, on a trip to Brussels, a great brewing nation, would sample the beer. Or they might eat mussels. I like galleries. In fact I am unreasonably excited about seeing Anish Kapoor’s work at the Royal Academy on Tuesday. But [...]
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Brussels is fun!

By natalie | Published: 28th November 2009
Eurostar was good. Weather has been fairly kind. A bit of drizzle but nothing really wet. The fields of northern France look wetter than those in Yorkshire which I passed yesterday. The hotel is great. It isn’t the one we thought we were staying in! There are two of the same name, and we only realised [...]
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Not playing

By natalie | Published: 27th November 2009
There is a technical term, when you have turned your phone on and off and on and off and on and FINALLY it works but the only apps which function are the factory settings ones so all the useful stuff like kniiting gauges and the colour matching program and the whatsthatwordinfrenchandjapanese app just sit there [...]
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Having a few days off.

By natalie | Published: 26th November 2009
The shop will remain open for business, but I am having a few days off to celebrate our wedding anniversary, so I won't be looking at emails or processing orders until the end of next week, 4th December. New blog posts will appear below this one. I'm still trying to blog every day on November so [...]
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Notebooks for knitters.

By natalie | Published: 25th November 2009
The shop was updated this afternoon and as well as the yarn and some bargainous fibre, I added a new range of notebooks.      I make no secret of the fact that I have a bit of a notebook habit, and these tick all my "must have" boxes – page numbering, indexing, squared paper, perforated tear [...]
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Win a Year of Yarn

By natalie | Published: 24th November 2009
I think we have eaten too much cake because the link doesn't work… click here instead. n  
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Happy Birthday p/hop

By natalie | Published: 23rd November 2009
I can hardly believe it's been a year. Pop over to the p/hop blog and read what's been happening. Jane has offered a new pattern for p/hop (thanks also to Alice for this). As always, patterns are offered in return for a donation to MSF and we rely entirely on the honesty of knitters to make this [...]
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Stationery

By natalie | Published: 22nd November 2009
Most of us collect things. Mugs, stamps, yarn, rhinocerii (yes, mother I am looking at you).  I'm watching the Antiques Roadshow at the moment and there is a woman on it who is passionate about ships, she has a ship's wheel and huge carved timber pillars from the Mauritania and a chair from the Canberra. This is [...]
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Postcards.

By natalie | Published: 21st November 2009
Dear Chickens, I know that it's winter and it's dark and miserable, and I know that at least one of you is peri-menopausal and simply not up to producing an egg a day, but it's been five weeks and we have just bought our second half-dozen box in the last four years, and really they aren't [...]
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