For your enlightenment…

After hearing about Ruth’s problems finding wool in Ireland (see yesterday’s post), and reading Kim’s comment (also see yesterday’s comments), I googled Knitting in Ireland.  I came up with a fairly good list, but the one item that caught my eye is this:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/knitting/index.html
Those people at the Victoria and Albert in England have put together a [...]

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Loot

 What with Mike giving me my birthday present 3 days early (new chair, pair of nice pants I’ve been coveting for ages), and Andy taking me shopping tomorrow, I figure I can milk this birthday thing for close to a week.
Mum dropped off some Purdy’s Hedgehogs (Vancouver chocolates; awesomely delicious.  My mother has loved them ever [...]

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Things to do Whilst Sitting in a New Chair

I guess a week and a half of self-pity is enough.  I’m using the “upstairs computer”, dreaded because of Windows Vista compatiblity issues, but I’m trying really hard to be brave.  I downloaded a cool program that lets me put the music on my iPod back into iTunes (take that, Apple!), Dell is sending me [...]

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