I'm trying to knit a lace shawl. Omg, lace knitting is hard. It seems like it should be really easy, just a combination of knit, yarn over, knit 2 together, etc. But I keep making mistakes, and unpicking the kidsilk haze is a horrendous nightmare. I've just now tried to knit row 29, and realised when I got to the centre stitch that I'd made a ( Read more... )

Anyone else been watching Bonekickers on tv? If not, I highly recommend it, it's laugh out loud funny, ludicrous and just plain stupid! The last episode has just made me laugh so much! Do you think the bbc thought this was a serious tv drama!

There are a number of people I know and on my friends page who don't like February and are worried that bad things happen in February ( Read more... )

Yesterday I kept note of how much I expressed in 24 hours. People on the internet are variously claiming they express 800 mls which seemed like a huge amount. I added up that yesteday that I expressed 940mls. That's nearly a litre! Wow. Yesterday I made 2 pints of milk. No wonder I'm so thirsty all the time ( Read more... )

have just realised that Pintsize in QC reminds me of our monkey.... I think of them in the same way.

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ok, off to bed I go!

broke arm skiing

huh

typing hard and annoying

you guys are all at work...

and I'm going to bed....

.... whoa....

so, should it be "normalising" or "normalizing"?

chamber dictionary which everyone helpfully pointed out last time, has "normalize or normalise" but only "normalizing".

Is this definatly a British English spelling reference?

my tutor has just replied to one of my emails by saying "try not to worry too much ( Read more... )

I'm reading "The Separation" by Christopher Priest. It claims to be a sci-fi book, and indeed Priest is a sci-fi author he's appearing at Worldcon in August. However, I'm 130 dense pages into it, and it's entirely sci-fi free. It's about WWII and the only sci-fi links are that it's briefly mentions a mass re-settlement of the Jews on Madagascar ( Read more... )