Another project which has been dragging on for ages is this new dressing gown:
It’s made out of old towels, which turned out to be a big mistake. My sewing machine was not happy, and I ended up having to sew the neck/front band on by hand as it simply would not fit under the [...]
Courtesy of Carol, a link to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners for 2006 which looks for the opening sentence for the worst ever imaginary novel.
You can see Carol’s favourite in her post here.
Cheek!
It seems that even the lofty heights of classical music are subject to plagiarism and fraud.
If you own any piano music recordings by Joyce Hatto which were made from 1989 onwards, it seems they aren’t by her at all.
Denis Dutton writes in the International Herald Tribune:
Responding to a tip from a reader, a critic with [...]
and eared!
This little (20cm) bear has been a long time in the making. Here’s what he looked like over a year ago!
I needed to find time when I wasn’t going to be interrupted to do the last of the finishing: ears, face and claws. I also knitted a tiny scarf to cover the [...]
I’m willing to be that most of you thought that the Aran Islands were famous only for a particular type of intricately-cabled sweater.
Think again!
Both Inis More and Inis Oirr claim to be the real Craggy Island, home of the channel 4 series Father Ted. All other avenues having been exhausted, the argument is to be [...]
As I mentioned, I’ve started studying again. I’m doing an Open University course aimed at ‘Women returners to Science, Engineering and Technology (SET). So far, the emphasis has been on ‘women returners’ with nothing about SET other than that the examples are women working in these fields.
This is not what I need. I [...]
I’ve designed, test-knitted, and knitted for use, a lovely double-breasted cardigan sized for 3mo to 12mo infants. It was made for a specific child, but I have formatted the pattern for sale.
You can see it here: http://www.theknittingvault.com/display.asp?ID=438
What I need is a picture of the cardigan being worn by a [...]
and I got it, courtesy of a mail-ordered magazine.
I spelled out all my details except for my last name, as I thought it was too obvious:
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is very hard to find. Excellent customer service often seems to be an endangered species.
So, here’s a glowing report on our hygiene company here at the Spread:
Eildon Pest Control & Hygiene Systems (01835 823 069) have regularly gone out of their way to help us. They came on board as a result of [...]
More like a war on decency.
In today’s Herald (sorry Jean, it’s a Glasgow paper) there is an article about how German prosecutors are attempting to arrest CIA agents for the illegal abduction of a German citizen.
This week, the unthinkable happened to the untouchables. German prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents in connection with [...]
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