fucknits

After a tedious day spent on planes and trains on Saturday, Simon and I arrived in Toulouse in the evening. Unfortunately my snowboard case was left behind in Gatwick. Simon was pretty stressed by this, but after speaking to the woman at the baggage desk who assured me it would be delivered to [...]

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I’ve had a sudden rush of comments today and a rise in traffic so a big HELLO! to everyone who reads this, especially if the person who googled ‘online peanut ark’ and found me is reading this.  I hope you find what you’re looking for.  We’ve all been there. (??????!)
I’m suddenly busy… I’ve had 3 [...]

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No, not those silly Americans. I’ve been nominated in two categories (ok, I nominated myself in one) for a Bobby - Ravelry’s inaugural awards ceremony. No, it’s not real. No, I won’t win anything. But I’m chuffed to bits.
My first ever sock is nominated in the Funniest Ugh! Picture category. [...]

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Okaaaaaaaaay…
Firstly, what I’ve been up to. Not much. Went snowboarding again, still have a sore bum. Sent off my French CV to a load of language schools in Toulouse, haven’t had any replies yet. Managed to go into a Primark and leave without spending anything.
Knitting:
I’ve started a making a ’shawl’ out [...]

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But only if you’re using Internet Explorer or you have the Firefox plug in that enables alt tags. *

Here is how I’ve been spending an embarrassing amount of my time doing lately. This is what I swapped Paris for. If you meet the above requirements, you can mouse over certain areas for [...]

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It’s Saturday night. I’m spending it as I spend all my nights, at home with my parents (kill me). Decided to do something ‘productive’ (apostrophes can’t emphasise the sarcasm enough) and update my blog and Ravelry stash with my Chrimbo presents.
But Flickr is down.
Oh well.
We’ll be back after this message from our sponsors…

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I got a mention on Jezebel today!
Ok, I’ll let you guess why…
(answer here!)
I’m quite proud because the standard of UK female columnists is something I’ve had a large gripe with for quite some time… especially the Vanessa Feltz/Indentikit-middle-aged-blonde’s of this world who earn a living passing judgement on other women’s lifestyle/fashion/career choices. Of course, [...]

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First of all, if you’re reading this, well done for finding me! Thanks to an offer from the wonderful eelizabeth from the wonderful Ravelry, I’m being hosted on feministy.com for a year, as a guinea pig. I’m hoping this will bring my unique style of knitting blogging with added swearing to a whole [...]

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