Ravelry and bookshops, oh my!

I received my Ravelry invite last night and couldn’t resist staying up an hour later than planned to set things up. I am apparently turning into a knitting geek But I can be found here and I’ve already joined a scary number of groups and input a couple of the projects that I’ve [...]

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Books and advertising

A recent post in Michelle Sagara’s blog about books, publishers and promotion got me thinking a little. I don’t know about you, but I always feel distinctly weird when I see adverts for books on TV. They’re usually ads for stuff by “authors” like James Patterson, but it still feels weird.
Advertising a TV show or [...]

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Hazmat suits and chocolate required

So in addition to the colleague who has been sick since Monday and the two colleagues on holiday, another colleague is now sick. It appears to be a different virus from the flu that the other colleague has, but I’m starting to think that we need Hazmat suits to work here. They’re dropping like flies!

As [...]

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Better day than yesterday (and cartoons)

Today was a better day than yesterday (I may post about yesterday at some stage, but suffice to say that it was a Bad Day). I got home no earlier, but the commute was less hellish, I wasn’t late arriving at work and I actually got to do some decent work. So, yay.
Also, I have [...]

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That scarf I made…

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Originally uploaded by ArcheryGirl
Some of you may have heard of the scarf that I spend the most of January making. For the curious, the photo is here showing the scarf wrapped on a hanger. It was beautifully warm during the trip and I am incredibly pleased with it.

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Canada photos now available

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Originally uploaded by ArcheryGirl

Less than a week after returning, I already have the photos from Canada process and up on Flicker.
Now I just want to go back and do the holiday again! It was so beautiful out there.

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Gu-ey desserts (and knitting)

Every now and again, I find a good reason to go to work. Today it was Gu chocolate puds and they were giving away hot chocolate soufflés. I have been eyeing these up in stores for months, not quite able to justify the expense even though they’re apparently divine, so that was a very nice [...]

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The weirdness of a beautiful spring day

This morning, when I opened my curtains, I got a bit of a shock when I looked out at blue skies, bright sun and green grass. For a week I’ve been looking out at white snow and grey skies and that has become almost normal to me. To be back in a country that thinks [...]

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Safely arrived

It wasn’t one of the greatest flights ever, but I’ve arrived at last!
We were forty-five minutes late leaving Canada (the runway needed ploughing and the aeroplane needed de-icing) and although we made up the time during the flight, we then circled Heathrow for ninety minutes. Hooray! There is always this point in coming back where [...]

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Last day blues

Today is the last day of my holiday. I fly out tonight and this part of the holiday always makes me sad. Mum and I are kind of half-heartedly thinking about packing, but we’ll get onto it properly this afternoon. We had a leisurely breakfast because the contractors weren’t due to arrive until 10am and [...]

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