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Woll-Weber KG

January 15, 2012 – 8:49 pm

Every time I visit my grandparent’s home town I stop by the only dedicated wool shop in town – Woll-Weber KG. It has 2.5 floors of all things wool from Knit Pro needles to sockwool to sections dedicated to fleece, as well as a whole floor just for discounted end-of-range wool with prices of 1 [...]

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Agatha Raisin series by M. C. Beaton

January 14, 2012 – 11:39 pm

I wish I had never discovered the Agatha Raisin series as it is sure to bankrupt me over time! It sort of happened as I was browsing the Kindle store when I discovered the Agatha Raisin omnibus containing the first for books of the series which now spans more than 20 books. The books included [...]

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German public transport

January 13, 2012 – 4:01 pm

The German public transport system called Öffentlicher Personen Nahverkehr (ÖPNV) is: On time Clean On time Cheap (compared to the UK anyway) On time Spacious On time Kids playing music through their phone’s speakers aside this is what not to do for German public transport: Queue Every cloud, silver lining and all that..

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The English German Girl by Jack Wallis Simons

January 12, 2012 – 8:08 am

I bought this book for two reasons – to balance out the chicklit of the previous book and because I’ve always been very interested in books surrounding Germany and the holocaust ever since reading The diary of Anne Frank and its accompanying literature as a little girl. I should also mention it was in the [...]

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Pictures of the purple jumper

January 11, 2012 – 1:41 am

All the images from the purple jumper. More info about the knitting here – the story of the jumpers.

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Pictures of the green jumper

January 10, 2012 – 2:36 am

All the images from the green jumper. More info about the knitting here – the story of the jumpers.

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The story of the jumpers [#secretchristmasknitting]

January 9, 2012 – 8:01 am

I can still hear myself insisting over and over to my friend that I was happy with just being able to do a garter stitch and that I didn’t feel like I needed to learn purl or any other fancy stitches. That was back in 2009 and since then I’ve learned a few more stitches. [...]

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The Sleepless Nanny by Christa Charter [@trixie360]

January 8, 2012 – 4:00 am

One of the first things I did when I got my Kindle on Friday was to go through the Amazon Marketplace and purchase books written by friends or those I know through Twitter. This included Christa Charter’s or, as she’s better known, @trixie360′s book The Sleepless Nanny. There is some background to the book on [...]

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#CatIsOnACoach again

January 7, 2012 – 10:28 pm

It’s the eve before my trip to Germany and I’m anxious, as always. I’m anxious in both parts for the actual trip [yet again not really a social trip] and having to spend the time on the coach. This isn’t the first time I’ve travelled great distances and I’ve blogged about it before here and [...]

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All Kindle’d up!

January 6, 2012 – 11:21 pm

Thanks to the amazing, brilliant [insert others here] Joe who bought it off my Amazon Wishlist, I now have a Kindle which arrived today. You know, the item I put on my wishlist thinking no one in their right mind would ever buy it for me! I’ve played with it a little bit, but have [...]

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Hints on etiquette and the usages of society with a glance at bad habits

January 5, 2012 – 2:12 am

I’ve been reading ‘Hints on etiquette and the usages of society with a glance at bad habits‘ by Charles Wm. Day which is fully available online. Up until seeing the link by raincoaster I wasn’t aware that books were fully available on archive.org, but I will now need to have a look for others that [...]

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The evolution of language

January 4, 2012 – 12:22 am

It’s not a secret that I love watching Hercule Poirot mysteries starring the one and only David Suchet. We’re watching between one and five episodes a week in the house and currently have about 15 episodes recorded on Sky Plus. In addition to hearing Captain Hastings’ ‘I say’ or ‘good Lord’ or ‘that girl’s a [...]

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Last.fm listening visualisation

January 3, 2012 – 5:23 am

I’ve been on Last.fm since 2008 and have blogged about it before. Stats fascinate me, but not nearly as much as visualisations created based on the stats. Saw LastGraph linked on Mark’s blog and created my own graph from joining Last.fm until now. It’s interesting to see what over 60000 listens look like and even [...]

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365 days since ‘The Event’ – #burglary

January 2, 2012 – 7:05 pm

It has now been two years since I was burgled. Whilst I have mostly gotten over that and the anger that came with it now, it’s still an event that has ruled most of the past 12 months of my life. This showed in the form of nightmares and the unusual desire not wanting to [...]

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A year of @SatScenes

January 1, 2012 – 10:01 pm

I’ve written about @satscenes before [though the post is hardly worth clicking through to!] and I’m quite proud that I’ve managed to submit a satscene for every Saturday this year with one hitch once where @akaSylvia graciously allowed me to submit one late. Satscenes are “photographs of people enjoying their Saturday from around the world” [...]

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Not the best of days #firstworldproblems

December 23, 2011 – 8:57 pm

This is a complete #firstworldproblems post. Here is a list of things that went wrong today: I didn’t sleep well thanks to a scratchy throat. I started the day with lemsip. I hate lemsip. I got wet in the rain in town. I got hit in the back by a shopping basket. I got wet [...]

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Yet another post on my Christmas knitting

December 20, 2011 – 6:56 am

I’m happy to report that the Christmas knitting which looked so intimidating just a couple of days ago is now much more manageable. I completed and by now even gift-wrapped two major projects that have taken up a lot of my time of the past months and I can’t wait for Christmas purely so I [...]

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One of those moments

December 18, 2011 – 1:34 am

Had a conversation today about deaths in families with others that had lost a parent when they were younger. Conversation was the same as always – everyone seems to be affected hugely, even a decade later, whereas I don’t seem to apart from some moments. Fast forward 12 hours and whilst reading a totally random [...]

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