January 2025

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Let’s Hear it for Herm

Herm is one of the Channel Islands, one of the smaller Islands. Apparently you can walk across Herm in about 10 minutes. Sixty people live there full time and its main source of revenue is tourism. So Herm has to do a lot of marketing to get people to take the boat from Guernsey to […]

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Pushing the Edges of Sagittarius

Well maybe it’s not really pushing; it’s more like thinking really hard about how I am going to add a lovely finish to the pink lace shawl that I am working on. But the ideas are not really taking on any shape, so I am pushing for some inspiration! I have found a lovely stitch

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The Catherine Wheel

Originally posted Nov 25, 2010 I was concentrating so much on the novel challenge that I forgot to post for two of my favourite days. Nov 25 and Nov 30.  Here is a re-post for Nov 25. Catherine Wheel Crochet Stitch as Worked November 25 is the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria. In Christian

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Let Chaos Reign

Originally posted Nov. 24, 2010 On Nov 18, 1883 Sir Sanford Fleming spoiled all the fun – he got North America to adopt Standard Time. As a result we now have boring predictability. Why, because apparently before standard time each railway company (think airports, railways stations, bus and subway platforms today) literally had it’s own

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