Friday, 20 November 2009
Friday Finish
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Thursday, 19 November 2009
Which ewe?
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009
If there's anyone still here, you'll have noticed that my month of daily blogging failed miserably - this felt less of a disater than blogging total drivel every day. At least this way, you just get spasmodic drivel..........
So, where were we? Howling gales last night sent everyone's recycling boxes all over the street, so I've already had a fun time this morning picking up stray papers and bottles from the road. This seems a small price to pay when you look at people in news reports wading through their kitchens and living rooms. Our closest flood warning today is almost 10 miles away, so we don't feel over threatened.
We've taken James' spare copies of his thesis to the bookbinders, and should have those in our hot sticky mitts by the end of the week.
As the day finally dawns here fresh and mild, I managed to get a few shots of what was a beautiful sunrise a few minutes ago. This was the view from our study window about 7.25 am:
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009
trial p/hop
This is the first time I've tried this, so let's see if it works.
Natalie had a briliant idea yesterday, and donated some p/hop yarn via Twitter.
It worked for her [since I snapped it up with great haste!] and we're keen to see if it will work in general, so as soon as this post is written, I'll link a tweet to it and see if we can't put a bit more in the P/hop pot.
What's up on offer today is not such wonderful yarn as Natalie had, but perfectly useable/useful acrylic - great for charity knits, or everyday kids items. I've knitted up quite a lot of it, and it's a standard DK soft and easy to knit. There is 1kg [10x100g balls, 200g each of five colours - navy, paler blue, sage green, pastelpink, mauve/lilac ] I'll cover postage in the UK - sorry it's a bit heavy pricewise to ship further, and all I'm asking for is a donation to the P/hop scheme. It's brilliant cause, let's see if this works!! Please leave a comment or DM me at twitter if you are interested.
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Oh help! Now I really do feel old. I had a message this morning saying that there was a pm for me at the Knitting Social Network forum. Nothing exciting about that, except, I didn't think I'd ever heard of it. I found the site[not trusting the link provided in case it was a scam] and true enough I'd registered there in July, and even uploaded an avatar. It looks a really good forum - so why can't I remember doing the registration, or even seeing the site in the first place??
Remembering with love today, [and other days]
Private Ernest Haden, killed at Vimy 12 June 1917
Fireman William Haden, torpedoed on the Atlantic convoys 6 February 1941
2nd lieutenant Wiliam Swift killed east of Cambrai 11 October 1918
Sgt Joseph Wright who won the Military Medal at Rossignol Wood
Also remembering those countless thousands of men and women who have lost their lives in the service of their country in world wars and since.
Sadly missing three exceptional men at this year's commemorations, they too will be remembered with great gratitude and respect - Bill Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch. Rest in peace, one and all
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What a dismal day it's been in this part of Yorkshire! [weatherwise, anyway]
I'd planned to do all sorts today, and it all went pretty much to plan until almost 9 am..............
Suffice it to say, the job I was to have finished at 2pm has just been completed[almost 9pm!] and the afternoon things never really got started.
So, lets concentrate on tomorrow instead. I found out last month that there's a WW1 war grave in the local village church, so I went on a reccy last week, and eventually found it hiding right at the back, and almost completely covered by grass and leaves. Now I know where it is, I'll take a brush and dustpan tomorrow, and clear away a bit to leave a poppy cross for one of our local lads, before going on to the town cemetery for the Remembrance Service. I've got poppy crosses for our great uncles to leave there too - three of them all lost in war, as well as remembering those countless others who lived and died in such awful times.
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Monday, 9 November 2009
Monday
Sorry, still no pictures, but I've had a reasonably productive day, and just decided I'll leave Hadenmaiden's House forum for another couple of days then delete it through redundancy
rice pudding for tea - Bob's away !
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