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Proud to be Canadian…

Posted in Knitting Blogs You should Visit, Rant, legal, stupidity, the Big Picture on May 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »

for many reasons.  At the top of the list today is an issue which doesn’t affect me personally in my life, but it does affect many people I have met through the internet and the fibre community.
The supreme court of California was not able to overturn Proposition 8- you know the one, where GLTB couples [...]

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Custom Header, or a little joke. Very little.

Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »

You know how sometimes you make a little joke, and it’s really funny and makes you laugh, and it’s really better if you don’t say anything to anyone about it or it might not be as funny, but you’re just so impressed with the joke that you have to tell someone?  Check out my header.  [...]

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Nothing says “Reunion” like 37 Years

Posted in Knitting, family, the Big Picture, travel on May 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »

At some point in grade 4, I was identified as a “gifted learner”.  So, for grades five through eight I attended King Edward School with 49 other students.

We were split into 2 classes, and spent the next 4 years as part of a grand social experiment.  (No one will actually ‘fess up that it was [...]

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Tapas

Posted in Knitting, travel on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m back from Ottawa after having a marvellous time.  We laughed, we shrieked, we ate, we drank, we canoed on the Rideau Canal (well, some of us did.  I demurred.), we congratulated ourselves, we danced like it was 1972.  I found 2 great yarn shops, about which I will write in more detail tomorrow, and [...]

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Quickie

Posted in Knitting, family, travel on May 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Briefly:
Geoffrey and Courtney got married last Saturday, the ceremony was beautiful, everything went well, the happy couple is honeymooning in Nassau in the Bahamas.  Lucky ducks.
I take off in 6 hours for my grade 8 reunion (37 years, and halfway across the country from where grade 8 occurred.  Go figure.).
I am still knitting Mike’s Goddamned [...]

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Short Attention Span

Posted in Knitting, family on May 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I’ve been remiss with the blogging lately.  I admit it.  I’ve wanted to write; I’ve had flashes of “That would make a great blog entry!”, but then the distraction du jour rears its head, and I’m forget what I was intending to do and I’m off again in a different direction.  I feel like Dorrie [...]

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