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Word Wars

BBC News: Small object of grammatical desire. It's small. It's flat. It's black. And according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, its numbers are shrinking. Welcome to the world of the hyphen. Having been around since at least the birth of printing, the hyphen

Myers House yarn store

I wouldn't normally put a yarn store trip in a blog post, but this one rocked. It has been a bad week and Hubby had stuff to do on Saturday so I drove out to Myers House on my own. The store feels like a library, except you

Boudica socks and a Turkish spindle

Started the first Boudica sock, ripped it out and restarted, having figured out the correct way to do the increases. I've never done a sock by starting with a flap and picking up stitches before. It was tempting to just rip it out and do a Sherman toe

Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?

BBC News: Police mocked for 'obvious' signs. A police service has been criticised for using blindingly obvious messages in its campaign posters. "Don't Commit Crime" is stated on one of Hertfordshire Constabulary's posters - "All fuel must be paid for"

FO: Seraphim shawl

Seraphim's done! Did the cast off with a needle 2 sizes up since I tend to cast off tightly. I tried this on when I got it off the needle, and I thought it was small. Then I stuck it in water and it got huge! It spread

Ding dong, the witch is (half) dead!

She's definitely poorly and not going to recover. The witch in question is my monster spinning project, 8oz of superwash merino to be spun as two ply sock yarn. Decided to put 3oz on each bobbin, which means I am just over half done now. It's

Code Monkey

In episode 54 of Cast On, Brenda plays a song by Jonathon Coulton called Code Monkey. I love this song! You can listen to it on his website and it is hilarious! Code Monkey get up get coffee Code Monkey go to job Code Monkey have boring meeting With boring

Snapshot - September 2007

Reading: Finished a fascinating book over the long weekend: Another day in the frontal lobe by Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon. The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine is my other current read. Finished Ill Wind, started (but not finished) Heat Stroke, and got most of the way through Chill Factor.

Cocoa for health

BBC News: Cocoa nutrient for 'lethal ills'. A nutrient in cocoa called epicatechin appears to lower the risk of four common killer diseases, work suggests. Among the Kuna people of Panama, who can drink up to 40 cups of cocoa per week, rates of stroke, heart disease, cancer

Seraphim: Nearing the finish line

18 rows to go on the Seraphim shawl! I am a lace chart convert now, especially since I can see how it matches up to the knitting. Still have to check which symbol is ssk and which is k2tog, but apart from that I'm sold. It's

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