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Vegas, baby!

We flew back from Las Vegas on Wednesday night, it was a fantastic trip! Hubby found a non-gambling hotel just off the Strip, and the weather was around 37C/100F all week. The first surprise was a Friday excursion to the Grand Canyon. A coach took us to Boulder

Wedding anniversary

Hubby and I will be out of town for a week starting Thursday. Every three years we go and see Phantom of the Opera for our wedding anniversary. He plans the whole trip and I find out our destination at the airport. One of our wedding presents was front row

The Police Live in Concert

Saw The Police in concert Monday night, they were great! They saved the stalker's anthem (Every breath you take) till last. In a crowd of over 17 thousand people, Hubby bumped into someone we know who was working on security for the concert. We had a fantastic time!

Coinage

I like foreign coins, most of this lot were picked up at a coin place in town with a huge bucketful you can paw through. I use a US quarter as a size reference in some spinning photos, but it's not my only option. The coins on the

Nice day for a white wedding

Huge conga rats to Sehlat on her wedding this weekend!

Perception of handmade quality

The trouble with knitting a pair of socks for someone with feet five sizes bigger than your own is that progress is slow, and thus not much blog fodder. She tried on the almost-completed sock Wednesday night. "It fits!" The look of pleased shock on her face

Travel bug launch

I had a horrible hunch the Slayer sock wasn't going to work. Too tight on one needle, too loose on on the next size up. Frogged the sock and the yarn's in time out. So I made this instead, Loopy's Red Sock Kit that

Birthday relaxation

I try and take a day off work for my birthday every year, so today I took a field trip to The Loopy Ewe looking for some red yarn. After someone nearly peeled the socks off my feet yesterday, it seemed expedient to knit her some of her own. I

Fortune Cookie

My Fortune Cookie told me: BAD WOLF. Get a cookie from Miss Fortune Season One of Doctor Who anyone?

Finding history

BBC News: School wall yields historic items. A unique piece of local history has been discovered in the wall of a local primary school in Gravesend, Kent. A bottle containing artefacts from the day in 1893 when building work on Wrotham Road School finished was dug out by workmen building

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