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posted by [personal profile] tadorna at 12:23pm on 26/10/2008
I forgot to put the clocks back last night, so I got up at the crack of dawn, which was rather cool. [livejournal.com profile] blythely, did you know that Alex James presents On Your Farm at 6.30 on Sunday mornings on Radio 4? I was able to hear him say things like "I'm not doing courgettes again", and "my wife's breastfeeding at the moment". Surreal.

I just screwed up my courage and attacked my inbox, so if you've just received baffling replies to ancient comments, or apologies for not replying to ancient comments in the replies to ancient comments, that'll be why. If you did not receive such a thing -- (a) be thankful, and (b) it's probably because the comments were so ancient they were actually rotting, so I simply wrapped them in newspaper and quietly disposed of them. I feel clean now.

Sigh.

In other news, I am reading Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and have friended Stephen Fry's Twitter stream feed. I am also about to knit a second pair of bedsocks. And I have House and Ugly Betty episodes to watch. And I bought a fountain pen on a craaaazy whim. And I made chicken soup. It's not a bad life, eh?
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posted by [personal profile] lazulus at 12:36pm on 26/10/2008
My Niece took the lid off Mum's fountain pen and, not realising how it worked, flicked ink all over the wallpaper!

BE WARNED, DUCKIE.
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 04:21pm on 26/10/2008
Thank you for the warning! Luckily, I don't have a niece and my wallpaper would probably improve with some liberal ink-sprinkling.
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posted by [identity profile] lapin-agile.livejournal.com at 01:05pm on 26/10/2008
Just dropping by to participate in the great cycle of life LJ: you answer comments, you post about it, you receive new comments in return, rinse, repeat.

We've not set our clocks back yet, so now you are merely four hours "ahead" of my time zone. That makes me feel miraculously closer.

I watched a marathon of House reruns yesterday on some channel (not sure I'll ever find it again, but it was fun while it lasted).

I'm knitting small purses to give as Christmas gifts. I brought driftwood home with me from our summer trip to Maine and plan to use that for handles. I have a basic pattern and am varying the stitch patterns on each one. Kind of fun, and I've got some nice yarn for the project. Ever knit with corn fibre? Or with a fibre that's partly milk protein? I have no idea how these things will wear, but it's all an experiment, anyway.

Bedsocks sound like a good, practical project. Is the pattern available online? I always wear wool socks to bed, so why not knit my own!?
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 04:25pm on 26/10/2008
LJ, life, same thing.

Your purses sound great! Here's the sock pattern:

http://www.yarnmagazine.com.au/patterns/clafoutis_socks.html

It's pretty plain and simple as sock patterns go, but they knit up nice and quick and if you choose something delicious and soft to make them out of they end up rather nice and snuggly. I made the first pair for my mum, and decided I needed some of my own. I found I had to use needles a couple of sizes up though - the first attempt was turning out toddler-sized.
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posted by [identity profile] angelislington.livejournal.com at 03:51pm on 26/10/2008
Yayyy Graveyard Book!

Are you able to see Neil on the tour this week?

Bedsocks sound good, practical, and eveeeeeeeer so comfy. Yum. :)

*squish*
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 26/10/2008
Yayz! Nearly finished actually, and I only started reading it yesterday. :)

Are you able to see Neil on the tour this week?

Of course not, that would involve things like forward planning and leaving the house!
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posted by [identity profile] circe-tigana.livejournal.com at 04:39pm on 26/10/2008
Would you lend? :) *hopeful lazy cheap face*
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 26/10/2008
Course! :) And B wanted John Peel, didn't she? If I dont see you, I shall post.
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posted by [identity profile] circe-tigana.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 26/10/2008
:D
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posted by [identity profile] elanorkat.livejournal.com at 10:30pm on 26/10/2008
What sort of yarn are you using for the snuggly socks? I am envious of your sockage. I started a pair when Theo was about 3 months old and was going on nicely (2.75 needles!) until about 4" in, when I dropped a stitch and can't for the life of me work out how to pick it up. It's so fiddly at that gauge! Do you read the Yarn Harlot? (and if not, why not?)
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:39pm on 26/10/2008
I'm using some not-particularly natural or organic but very lovely and soft Sirdar stuff I picked up in my local wool-shop. But the great thing is - it's bulky. Which means they knit up in an afternoon, pretty much on what, 6.5/7mm needles? It's the easiest thing, most instant gratification thing ever, I love it!
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posted by [identity profile] elanorkat.livejournal.com at 09:11am on 27/10/2008
I don't think I've even seen 7mm dpns! I am all covetous of your ability to whip up socks in an afternoon, bulky or not. Have you done them yet, then? :-)
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 09:17am on 28/10/2008
Ok, maybe that was a slight exaggeration. I've done most of one. But that is without actually doing much knitting! Seriously, they are astonishingly fast.
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Olden days and that.

posted by [identity profile] lugna-vatten.livejournal.com at 08:16am on 27/10/2008
RYC - I love wondering how people saw things we consider "olden," such as the (newfangled) mansion. I know many were against inside toilets because they'd be insanitary, for instance. But I like to think my ancestors sat in their cave muttering "You'll never get ME in one of those new hut things..."

Talking of olden days, back in 1976 when I started at Northgate we HAD to use fountain pens until our writing was considered good enough to use a biro! How quaint that seems now, and how often people used to open their bags to find some kind of ink explosion had taken place...



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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 09:21am on 28/10/2008
we HAD to use fountain pens until our writing was considered good enough to use a biro!

There is something really backwards about that!
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