I’m shutting this blog down. I am shutting all my wordpress.com blogs down. Why? Because WordPress.com has introduced advertising. I was horrified to see the intrusion into my post and up with it I will not put. Matt always said that WordPress is absolutely free and always will be. Well, that’s a moot point when …
Monthly archives: September 2013
Oh, Matt, how could you?
I’m shutting this blog down. I am shutting all my wordpress.com blogs down. Why? Because WordPress.com has introduced advertising. I was horrified to see the intrusion into my post and up with it I will not put. Matt always said that WordPress is absolutely free and always will be. Well, that’s a moot point when …
The Inner Child
Mr L is topping off the house with a second coat of paint, whilst the weather holds. There’s a storm on its way. Me, I’m being idle and entertaining the Inner Child with a variety of camera apps on my new phone. At some point I shall have to get around to setting the phone …
Application
As with everything else in life, knitting goes best with what my old mother called a “little application”. Application is a relative of elbow grease, I think. Anyway, it was counted a virtue when I was a child… and application did not come easily to a flighty an interested mind. Well, times have changed – the meaning of …
Reporting in
I was given a new toy today – a Nexus smartphone. I plan to play with it fully, though I doubt I shall make many phone calls. There has been knitting, reported at Sanday Spinners. Both my cotton doily and my alpaca Kadril scarf are making progress now that my cardigan is finished. There have …
Pasta la vista, baby
I made pasta yesterday (king prawn, tomato, garlic, white wine sauce) and noticed that my pasta rolling machine is becoming rusty. I was surprised as I have not had it long. Well, only 10 or 12 years anyway… We got to discussing a replacement and Mr L reminded me that we had been researching attachments …