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Quick update from a McDonalds in Carcassonne… didn’t go to the knit night on Tuesday cos I was too lazy (seriously can’t think of a better excuse) and now I’m in France. I have an interview on Monday for a job as an English teacher and there’s a message on my answerphone from someone [...]

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On Saturday I braved the Mersey tunnel to go and check out a new yarn store in Wallasey, Made. It was pretty good, I managed to break my resolution to spend no more than £10 and ended up with these:

The first two are just some acrylic/acrylic mix for a baby hat I’m [...]

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Except that someone posted it in the chuffing splendid Lazy, Stupid and Godless group…

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Friday night, I clocked off work at 5pm (nary half an hour after finishing Simon’s Christmas Valentines socks with a hastily improvised needle made out of a paperclip and some sellotape), went home to change and then jumped in my car and drove down to Reading. I was going to spend the weekend with [...]

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This rocks.  I managed to get around the stupid system they have here which runs Windows 2000 on top of Windows XP, and get myself a version of Internet Explorer that can run Ravelry.  So this is now my first time ever using Ravelry at work, and I can’t believe I’ve wasted all these months browsing [...]

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I’m temping on a very quiet reception desk at the moment.  The computer is so old it won’t let me play Scrabulous or even browse Ravelry, so today I knit on the job.
It felt good.

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Remember this quiet, unassuming hat? Well, little did I know when I made it that it was to become my ice skating-snowboarding- Paris/London/Toulouse exploring- and now fishing-hat. I love it so much, and realised this when I thought I’d lost it the other day, but it turned up under the seat of my dad’s [...]

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