Month: September 2008
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Back at home together
It’s funny how life can happen quite unexpectedly at times. I have last week to thank for the fact I am now working from home three days a week, and now we are sans-nanny, looking after Astrid the other two. The last time it was like this was back in April or May I think…
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Learning to knit
And other such thoughts. in progress raglan jumper from debbie bliss baby knits book Ah, these last couple of mornings I’ve been dropping Astrid off at our wonderful childminder, heading up to South End Green for coffee and a muffin to plop myself in a cosy chair and knit for an hour before I come…
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A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart
Every day I’ve been checking if 3191 is still on pre-order. Today I can add to basket { edit 26.09.08 : and today it’s here }. from amazon.co.uk
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I can’t stop thinking about these
from trippen I think a weekend in Berlin is called for so I can go and try them on.
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Here we are, Kimberlee
Another gorgeous London weekend. Yesterday, the last day of Summer, we walked all the way up to the top of the Heath and back down to Hampstead, looking for a coat for little Miss A. Don’t get me started on people in shops telling me, “oh, but those are girl’s boots”. I am not dressing…
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A drop of summer
Sunday was perfect. Beautiful and cloudless. Warm but not hot. Up early and out for breakfast. A long walk on the heath. A tired child who will sleep. Fruit for lunch. A day for knitting. A day for quiet. Cats outside playing. Time to cook. Time for reading. Time for more knitting. A perfect, lovely,…
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Knitting classes at Loop
 After much waiting and counting down, knitting classes at Loop began this weekend. This was my third time lucky attempt at booking knitting classes over the years – and I must say it’s £75 very well spent and it was worth the wait. So exciting was the prospect that I’d actually got a spot, I…
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He likes it
And so do I. It’s not technically finished. But the good thing about crochet is you’re pretty much always cast-off. So for now, it’s a knee blanket. And it’s finished (it’s folded over in the photo and is bigger than it looks). Oscar has even switched beds just for it. In other news, it would…
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On my last day at work…
I remembered to take the little camera in to document my journey. Out the gate, into very late Summer… Down the road and around the corner to the 24 bus stop. Then on to Warren Street where I get off and it’s a stone’s throw to Euston Square station. Onto the Eastbound platform where I…
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printing by hand
Now, I wonder if anyone is wondering, “what on earth happened to those textile design and print classes Charlotte had booked at St Martins?”. Well, that would be a very good thing to wonder as they were in July and August. But I cancelled them a) because I needed the refund money to live off…
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I have no idea
…where this came from. I think a little flax-berry eating bird must have sent it. Which means I had now really better sort myelf out and start sewing. And I really do have to say the grey forest double knit is just heaven. All I want to do it hem the whole three metres and…
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A year ago
I’ve been keeping reminding myself to remember on the 5th of September about the first anniversary of mum’s death. Just like I remembered on August the 19th that a) it was grandma’s birthday and b) it was my 10 year anniversary of arriving in London with but a pink backpack, a small wad of money…