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Settling in now to life on the boat. All is good, although never straightforward. The first night I couldn’t get the engine started, and ended up with an engineer from the local marina down in the hull checking all my injectors and a few neighbouring boaters standing around offering advice and scratching their [...]

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I spent the most awesome weekend in Paris, catching up with my old au pair friends. I introduced them to the joys* of the Vélib, and spent every night pedalling around Le Marais, the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, along the Seine, Bastille, Republique until about 5am… we covered a helluva lot of ground. I can still [...]

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Ok, so my big news. I finally quit the rat race (and my mum and dad’s house) and got me a boat.
Here she is.

She’s currently in Northampton and I’m going to move on there properly when I get back from Paris next week (I know! life is such a bitch!) but I spent last [...]

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Sock Blanks.

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Basically, Knit Picks, who don’t ship to the UK… or Scotland, sell ready-knit,double stranded, rectangles of undyed yarn, which you can then easily dye into a stripe pattern of your choice, and then knit up your socks straight from the rectangle - no winding of balls.
Genius.
I love stripes. I hate winding [...]

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