Lucy Neatby posted to my Facebook wall that she was off to teach a class on 3 scarves – Sea Lettuce, Falling Leaves and Mirror, Mirror and her comment was..”a nice knitting cocktail!…” Lucy is an amazing designer. She may even be considered a knitting acrobat. What she does with the simplest of stitches is […]
Borscht, I’ve decided is an acquired taste. I varied the recipe, I posted earlier this month, a fair bit and I did have two helpings (my husband managed one), but you really have to like beets. This is what I did: 1. I cut the ingredients back by a third – and still had enough
Remembrance Day is the one day of the year that I read “In Flanders Fields.” It is all about being connected, about paying back in some small, more like infinitesimal way, the great debt that we owe to those who did not make it back from the many battles that had to be fought, so
My friend JB told me about a new program at the library. Apparently it started in Denmark about 10 years ago and has spread. Participating libraries arrange for you to take out an author, for an hour or so, on your library card! Well it’s one way, albeit a very time consuming way, of reaching
Well I just had to post to-day about the fact that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has set up a page on Facebook. Now, you can rub shoulders not just with movie stars, but with royalty. It is really a very “cool” page with lots of people posting welcomes including me. Some pointed out how
This post is actually following along from an earlier post about celebrities who knit. I mentioned Julia Roberts and maybe Demi Moore….Well, I don’t suppose that I will ever rub shoulders with Julia Roberts or Demi Moore, but I have been able to chat to Fiona Ellis and a few other knitting personalities on Facebook.
It’s Sunday morning and I’m cruising the web looking for a link between knitting and life….why don’t I just pick up the needles and work on Sagittarius? Well I do enjoy writing this blog and have written ahead a few posts already for Nov 11 and Nov 25 – significant days. But not much really
Terrorism is not new. It has been with us since the beginning. On November 5, Britains “celebrate” one of the most “celebrated” acts of terrorism – Guy Fawkes Night. Here is more than you want to read about a “guy” in the 1600’s, 1605 to be exact, who set out to blow up the British Parliament.
There was an article in the business section yesterday, which was actually “clipped” from INC magazine – (they provide the horoscopes for this site). It was about the importance of having something “flashy” in your store window or among your display samples etc…to get people excited about buying, which in our case is, yarn. The magazine
I promised that I would research the term “Bob’s your uncle” and found some fascinating info. First, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob’s_your_uncle Lots of information about Lords, named Robert, appointed to do things. I did like the one about Lord Frederick Roberts (1832-1914. 1st Earl Roberts, and Roberts of Kandahar) who led a successful siege in Afghanistan – too bad
