Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here it is. The happy hat, the charming chapeau, the tasteful topper, the lovely lid, in short: The most beautiful MAGA hat in the world! The world has never seen anything like it! Ever in the history of the world. No one’s ever designed or knitted a hat this beautiful! No one! Now,… Continue reading Banned on Ravelry! Make Hats Great Again
Month: June 2019
From the Annals of the “Careful What You Wish For” Department
My hometown of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has been rent for weeks by parental demonstrations against a new “Sex and Relationship” education mandate for primary (elementary) school children, and things are getting rather heated. Parents are objecting to the fact that, although they can request that their children not be taught the “Sex” part… Continue reading From the Annals of the “Careful What You Wish For” Department
Occasional Quote of the Day: Lessons From My Mother
I’ve mentioned this favorite saying of my mother’s many times before. And for the first time, when I did my due diligence and searched the Internet before I wrote this, I found it attributed to someone else: Helen Gurley Brown. Pretty sure Mum didn’t get it from her, and I’ve long wondered if it was,… Continue reading Occasional Quote of the Day: Lessons From My Mother
Spoilt for Choice
I think it’s a phrase mostly used in the UK (especially with the first word spelled the way it is, so please don’t “fix” it), but it’s certainly applicable here. Here’s the definition from The Cambridge Dictionary: “To be unable to choose because there are so many possible good choices.” So. “Bill Gates reveals the ‘greatest… Continue reading Spoilt for Choice
A Letter to the Ravelry Community
Ravelry is an online knitting and crochet community, a tremendous resource of knowledge and expertise, and the go-to place for its millions of members all over the world for both selling and buying, online knitting, and crochet patterns. It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that politics, when they infect the site, list heavily… Continue reading A Letter to the Ravelry Community
Friday Food and Drink Post: What’s Bread in the Bone …
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!–The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam I love bread. Over the years I’ve tried a great many sorts and a great many methods of baking my own.… Continue reading Friday Food and Drink Post: What’s Bread in the Bone …
Occasional Quote of the Day: A Hundred Acorns
“Which was the greater innovator, which was the more important personage in man’s history – he who first led armies over the Alps, and gained the victories of Cannae and Thrasymene; or the nameless boor who first hammered out for himself an iron spade? When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it;… Continue reading Occasional Quote of the Day: A Hundred Acorns
Hot . . . Umm . . . Stuff: Adventures in Shoveling Out the Barn
Let’s start with the Book of Ecclesiastes. First off, that photo to the right? It has nothing to do with the subject of this post. But before I dig in (so to speak) I’d like to get something off my chest, something which I’m generally not all that moved by or all that privy to,… Continue reading Hot . . . Umm . . . Stuff: Adventures in Shoveling Out the Barn
Occasional Quote of the Day: George Orwell’s 1984
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 1984 was published seventy years ago, on June 8, 1949. At the time of its publication, 1984 was thirty-five years in the future. Today, 1984 is thirty-five years in the past. Yet, here we still are to talk about it. More or… Continue reading Occasional Quote of the Day: George Orwell’s 1984
I’m Game!
Well, not really. Ever since the very small me used to sit on the throne in the outside loo** at home in England, staring at the beady eyes of the pheasants, or partridges, or rabbits, glaring back at me from where Dad had hung them to–whatever it is one “hangs” game to do–I’ve never really… Continue reading I’m Game!