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… in this post, but I just need to write about how AWESOME my job is.  I get to handle snakes, snails (big ones), a Cuban cockroach, a South African millipede, a bird-eating spider and a stick insect.  The kids I meet are awesome too and all on their best behaviour and really enthusiastic.  John, [...]

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Sorry it’s been so long since I posted.  My phone completely died on me for a couple of weeks, meaning I couldn’t get any photos from it and it also left me completely incapable of functioning as a human being.  That phone is my camera, alarm clock, diary, news service, sat nav, games console and [...]

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I got the yarn back the next morning. I’d left it in the shop like an idiot. As you can see, I’m not letting go of it again. It’s a Brigantia Luxury Yarn in double knit, not aran and it’s lovely.
So I’m settling into my new life in Lancaster pretty well. [...]

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Gah.  I was having an excellent day today. I managed to pick the only dry and sunny hour all week to cruise up the canal and found a new mooring place in the city centre, then I met a couple who live on a boat who, wait for this, ARE UNDER THE AGE OF [...]

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My dad has a great saying.  “Worry about it when it happens.”  I’d been stressing pretty badly about crossing the Ribble Link, I thought that not only would I be the only boat that day venturing out into huge open waters, I’d be sailing single handedly.  Then my dad bought two life jackets, one for [...]

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Gah. The last 24 hours have been sucky. I need to sail along a tidal river to get to Lancaster Canal, where I’m going to uni. I’ve had my passage booked for months, for tomorrow, Wednesday. Last Wednesday, I realised there was something up with my engine. Called out the [...]

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This is me right now:

So far I’ve queued Camden, cos it’s so darn sexy… but I think that might have something to do with the waspy waist of the model, and Kinetic, a Norah Gaughan shawl that I want to make as a scarf for my dad. As I was saying to the owner [...]

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But y’know how it is. Life’s a bitch.

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I’m in Nuneaton right now, in a Starbucks again. The last one I went into, in Milton Keynes, screwed up my order by giving my panini to someone else so I got a voucher for a free drink so came here to take advantage of their mains electriciy, wifi and a free, large, coffee [...]

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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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