fucknits

I’ve been working in a really crappy job and nearly losing the will to live.  So I decided to take my friend Jenny up on her offer of a place to stay in Paris, and went and booked some flights.  Easyjet managed to hike their prices three times in half an hour, so I panicked [...]

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The LSG-licious Amelie tagged me on her blog and I am jumping at the chance to do something here at home at 1.30am on a Friday night…
1) What was I doing ten years ago?
I was 19, I think around that time I would have been living with my 31 year old boyfriend, rapidly losing all [...]

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It may be a long time ago, but I used to be two things. Cool and sexy. I was a goth (and I know a lot of people thing ‘goth’ and ‘cool’ are mutually exclusive, but it was before all of that terrible Marilyn Manson tripe and every 14 year old started wearing [...]

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Thanks to a tip off from this great blog, I heard about the amazing sale they’re having in Liverpool John Lewis before they move to new premises. I scored £54.80 worth of yarn for £11.30. I know this because I created an Excel spreadsheet and worked out average RRP against what I paid*…
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There is an utterly bitching thread here, where people have posted videos of their knitting techniques. I had no idea there were so many different methods, and how fucking FAST people can knit.
My nan taught me to knit yeeeeears ago, and until a few months ago I knitted like her, in a really slow, [...]

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You’ll be pleased to hear that I’m feeling a lot more chipper lately.  As someone pointed out to me in my comments, I was wrong to judge all women by their shittiest, playground, Mean Girls behaviour.  That would be like condemning all men because a few of them are football hooligans.  And anyway, very cool [...]

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