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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. Unknown
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Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company. ~Author Unknown


Today I be mainly going back to school to learn how to knit


with beads.


There may be tea and lunch involved.



Stay safe UKers affected by the floods and gales.


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Happiness isn’t having what you want, it’s wanting what you have.


This Blog makes me smile - a lot.


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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.


Thanks to the TENS machine, I slept 11 hours straight last night and had enough energy to swim 1000m in 34mins today. I stopped only because I was on count-down to the scheduled fire-drill.

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Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. T'ien Yiheng


Another very bad night last night despite being very sleepy after a fairly good swim. I had a minor fall out walking on Sunday and added some small-of-back pain to the RSI in the arms. Will try the new TENS machine today.


ETA Not getting LJ notifications again. Apologies for any past comments I've missed.


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I had to take a few enforced days off from my knitting due to RSI. Of course, it couldn't have happened at a worse time when there are three Christmas projects on the needles. My hands and wrists are so swollen I've had to remove my rings and watch. The pain is worse in the elbows - and I don't even play tennis!


I wish I had found this article sooner.


I'm easing back into knitting with a project on large needles. I started it a couple of days ago and it's not finished yet - the part on the needles is in the 'project bag' with a wonderful cartoon MWNN found for me.

A lovely scarf designed for using just one skein in a stitch called faggot. I wonder if the designer realises the derogatory meaning of that word when naming the scarf?


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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Probably originates from Alfréd Rényi

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Don’t let yesterday take up to much of today. Will Rogers
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. Terry Pratchett


I have pain in both forearms and am fairly certain it's RSI from long periods of uninterrupted knitting. The main treatment seems to be rest so that is what I'm doing. Sleep is difficult, knitting impossible. But otherwise, compared to some on my FList and elsewhere in the world, all is well.

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A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. Terry Pratchett
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The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is a fact well known ...... It's also wrong. There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise. Terry Pratchett


I was given a brand new Dell laptop for my birthday, so why am I so chuffed that removing i-tunes and all my website files has given this ancient one a new lease of life? It's almost 6 years old and is running much faster now.


::Pets ::


In other news, MWMM is due home late tonight.

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

In Flanders fields.
John McCrae, May 1915


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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. Thomas Huxley
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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things. Terry Pratchett
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My great-neice's birthday is coming up in a week's time. Instead of the usual 'educational' present, I decided to spoil her with some Posh.







I've already knitted a lacy scarf in this yarn and had enough over to do fine, 2ply version of Posh Lace. The yarn is a silk and merino blend in the colourway 'Coquette'




MWNN is taking presents over to Dublin today. He's flying out to take part in the ceremony to inter his Mother's ashes in his Father's grave on what would have been Ma's 100th birthday on 11th.


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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. Terry Pratchett



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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. Terry Pratchett


We had a visitor in the garden yesterday. The black squirrel is relatively common in this part of Hertfordshire but it's the first year they have started coming into the garden. I took the shot through the conservatory window which is in need of a bit of a clean, hence the 'smoky' smear. The light was very dim and I didn't have time to change to the big lense on my camera. This is a cropped version of the original.
Click through for larger image.
black squirrel

Black Squirrel data )

Video ©Friends of Howard Park



Off for another pot of tea and another chapter of Good Omens, the audiobook - for which many warm thanks to the very generous and thoughtful [info]spikereader

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I had this fabulous skein of Posh Yarn, 100% alpaca,in purple, just waiting for the right project.

And then I thought -
I need a neck warmer to wear at Red Hatting events.
So I set to and clickety clacked my favourite scarf pattern until it had the pre-requisite number of repeats completed. Then I cast off and, would you believe, it was time to go to lunch wearing the Red Hat.

The scarf needs a gentle blocking but I'm really pleased with how well it goes with the outfit I chose for yesterday.

More pics )


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Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. Terry Pratchett


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What's it all about, Alfie?


Where have all the flowersGuys gone?


Stand and Deliver


This post has been brought to you by the letters B and G, songs from my youth, and The Woodlands Junior School website


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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings


Happy Birthday [info]kazzy_cee Hope the day is a good one.

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Oh the comfort of feeling safe
with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts,
nor measure words,
but to pour them all out
just as chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand
will take and sift them,
keeping what is worth keeping
and with a breath of kindness,
blow the rest away.
George Elliot


I'm fuming.

  • The Barbershop Singing course scheduled for the coming weekend has been cancelled.
  • The Facebook group set up by a member of the NWR email group of which I am a member has been heavily criticised by the Luddites at HQ
  • Paypal is charging horrendously expensive fees on sales of yarn from my stash.
  • My GP's surgery is not getting Swine Flu vaccine until much later this month. MWNN flies to Dublin on Saturday, returns the following Thursday and will probably bring the xvirus back with him.


Need to go for a swim to relax (haven't had one for 10 days due to dreaded lurgy) but the seasonal flu jab shoulder is swollen and hard. Will have to make do with some Tai Chi exercise.


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