It's just as well I work in the sticks. I'd never survive the temptation of regular exposure to good shops.

I had 1 day to attend meetings in S. London near Waterloo. Waterloo stn, as every London knitter knows, is dangerously close to I knit London.

And so it came to pass that I entered the shop in search of a single needle, tripped, and fell ( Read more... )

Pictures of the shiny:

Sorry for the fuzzies - limit of taking pictures one-handed.

View of the coverage of my thumb, and flexibility: I'm making a fist.


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...hate it when that happens.

Ink and Gold: Islamic Calligraphy is already wending its way, courtesy of the online-book-dealers-that-are-not-Amazon ( Read more... )

Impulse buy: a 'roller' to help ease the ilio-tibial band tightness (outside of my leg from hip to knee), and a couple of novelty balls for training fencers. Good result ( Read more... )

Remember I said I ordered new Wolgemut CDs ( Read more... )

England has 2 long weekends in May - one of the best innovations in bank holidays ever. It means that English spring and early summer is full of breaks, because Easter rolls back and forth between late March and April, as well as these two long weekends ( Read more... )

My first big order from Shetland wool brokers arrived this week, necessitating finding the right post office for picking up oversize packages ( Read more... )

...Kaffe Fassett, to be exact.

And just subjected my plastic to three new-to-me books, having slipped in a puddle of internet shopping. Whoops.

Kaffe Fassett has mad mad mad mad designs, that cost the earth if you bought the recommended yarns. They're labours of love. He was huge in the 1980s, when everyone was wearing shoulderpads with ( Read more... )

Last week I went to the opticians - I'd noticed I was stuggling to focus at the MoL and NPG when we've been to exhibits recently, bouncing back and forth between looking through my glasses and peering under them ( Read more... )

pity my birthday isn't for months yet.

Tod's Stuff - pen knife

I'm cutting more quills and finding my scalpels aren't quite right anymore. Drool...