And then suddenly, the great white shark plunged from the sky, head-first into the roof of the house. Nobody was hurt (apart from the poor shark), but several local residents wondered privately whether it was time they cut back on their drug use. Look! OK, if you've lived in or near Oxford in the UK, you probably already know about the Headington Shark, but I hadn't seen it for maybe a decade until I happened to be in east Oxford the other day. It's been there for years (30 years, actually: Continue Reading
Archives for May 2016
Go Small Or Go Home
Have you ever tried really teeny-tiny knitting or crochet? If you're one of those people whose leisure hours are spent perfecting 2mm-high reproductions of Notre Dame in gossamer-fine thread, then I salute you. Know-ye that I'm intimidated by your brilliance. Having made some reasonably small paraphenalia for that project, I was bitten by the smallness bug, although only gently nibbled by it rather than properly bitten: there'll be no micro-amigurumi around here any time soon. So I bought Continue Reading
Knitting And Nature
So yeah, whilst I continue knitting small things for the crochet/knit garden of that ridiculous project, shall we go for a wander around outside? Yes it's possible to knit and walk. Trust me, I've done far more embarrassing things in public than knit. I realize that not everyone is this shameless, though: I was knitting in the pub with friends the other night - the rival knitting group wasn't there, so all was peaceful - and one of my friends said she just couldn't quite bring herself to knit Continue Reading
Teeny Tiny Picnic
So if you’ve been reading this blog since roughly the late Jurassic*, you’ll know that I’ve been working on a giant mostly-crochet-with-a-smidgeon-of-knitting house-related project for a while. And I hope that you’ll believe me when I say that it’s honestly nearly done. I’ve been busy in its garden, and there’s more progress to show you. Trust me, it’ll be worth the wait when you see the (bonkers) finished object. Now, for reasons that will be obvious when you see the outcome, the garden Continue Reading
We Have A Winner!
Did you hear that gong sound? Yesterday at noon GMT. That gong signalled the close of the ludicrously generous yarn giveaway by Wool And The Gang on this blog. At the time, I was sitting in the garden at my good friend Selma’s home, discussing future yarn-related projects with and sipping cordial. Man, that gong was loud. A heartfelt thank you to all 195 of you who entered. (Smallprint: as stated in the competition details, email addresses from everyone who entered will be Continue Reading
Outdoors Knows It’s Pretty
You’ve still got time (just!) to enter the Wool And The Gang yarn giveaway! Just head over here… Meanwhile, I’ve been all over the place – knitting a bit of this, crocheting a bit of that, drifting from room to room, bumping into members of the household whom I’d forgotten existed... “Great uncle Mortimer! Heavens, I haven’t seen you since the Great Tidying Up of ’96! How the very devil are you, ol’ bean? What’s that you say? Huh? Oh. What, that cupboard there? The one with the hefty lock on Continue Reading