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Archive for May, 2008

Batman and I went to his parents flat for tea last night, and I brought the baby quilt I’m desperately trying to finish. As I was quilting, I noticed that a a tree applique hadn’t got turned under as much as I would like, and that I ought to try to Fraycheck it when I [...]

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Changing of the Guard

Captain Lamy, the long-serving head of HMS Pencase, has decided to retire. He has led his gallant crew through many a long-fought degree battle, and saved the day with frequent emergency writing sorties.
But now the time had come to step down, nurse his persistently oozing nib injury and let another take his place. The crew assembled [...]

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Bing bong..

We apologise for the delay to our regularly scheduled blog. Batman unexpectedly ran off with the camera for a week and I have failed to muster the ingenuity to post without photos. We expect normal service in the next few days.
 
Thank you..

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The benefit of feeling like Hell today and staying home from work is that I can take a hs/ms photo! (..and of course rest, recuperate and write the job application I should be doing)
Device

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Weekend away

Batman and I went away for a short weekend to York, we were visiting a friend who is one of those fabulously accidental friends who turn out to be perfect. He and Batman were assigned to the same student flat in their first year at university, he was the first person to notice that Batman [...]

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Spring…

I’m afraid I’ve been terribly uninspired on the sewing front recently… A change in job (although very welcome because I’m back in a lovely office with fabulous people) means that I walk to work, so no hexagons. I have hit a rut with the baby quilt, just when the whole top has hit the stage [...]

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Recycling…

Batman is a proper coffee fan, once I got him off the instant, there was no stopping him…
We have settled on Illy as the one that’s uber-Fairtrade and doesn’t make his breath smell of nicotine, which conveniently gives me endless organisational opportunities…

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