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Someone stole my blog post

It's been an interesting week. As in the curse May you live in interesting times. Some weasel in Russia had been scraping my blog feed since the start of May and republishing all my posts on their spam blog with Google AdSense ads. They were stealing content from

Making lightning

BBC News: Tripping the light fantastic. It is near pitch-black in the viewing room where we are standing; a soft red glow exuding from a warning light above the door barely cuts through the darkness. A klaxon sounds, and, suddenly, a giant flash of lightning bolts through the air, accompanied

Tagged!

I got tagged by Sue for another meme: The Rules: Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged

Meme me this

I don't often do memes, but it's Merinda, so.. Leave me a random comment, and I'll respond with five questions you can answer in your own blog, leaving open the invitation for other people to give you comments o' randomness, and then you

Spinning FO: Undyed Jacob

Jacobs have been my favourite sheep since I was a kid. Dad used to get free tickets for the Suffolk Show every year. The best place to visit was the Raptor Society who always had several owls tethered and sleeping outside their tent, plus some vicious looking hawks. They did

Living in America

Phoeknits wrote an excellent post on Expat living. She's an American living in England, I'm a Briton living in America. This is what it's like on the other side of the equation. America is such a young country. A hundred years is a long

Best friends

Thanks for the commiserations on not making it to MD Sheep and Wool. My best friend Rox, who I was really hoping to spend time with, sent me a festival care package: 4oz of long staple Pima Cotton from Little Barn, and 2oz of Icelandic roving from Dott-E. Thank you

Thwarted

I didn't get to Maryland on Friday. Didn't get to see Rox and Eric, didn't go to the Sheep and Wool. My direct flight was cancelled, and the replacement flight through Chicago was delayed until there was no way to make the connecting flight.

The first decade

On Tuesday 5th May 1998, Hubby and I arrived in St Louis from London Gatwick. Most of our belongings had been sold or given away, some were in our oversized suitcases, the rest were sat on a dock in New York racking up fees because they'd arrived a

Stash and simplicity (part two)

Moving country changes your perspective on accumulated stuff somewhat. Everything we owned was evaluated. Can we easily replace this? Do we really want to keep this? Do we want this enough to ship it given that we can only ship so much? If we want to ship it and we&

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