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Clearing out the loft on Saturday we came across a whole bunch of knitting stuff. Needles, wool, stitch counters. We even found a half-made jumper, still on the needles that will never be finished now.
Most interesting, though, was a whole folder full of old patterns, carefully annotated over the years. Growing up, almost all of […]

Me, in 2003 (left) and 2007 (right)
Danny Bird took us some new pictures for the mag. The last time he did it was 2003, and I was shocked to notice, on looking at these new ones, that I wore the same jumper in both sessions.
I had considered that jumper to be one of my newest. […]

Yes - a 747 in Asda livery. Missing it’s engines, it would appear. If they’re planning on starting a trans-Atlantic passenger service, perhaps this is how they’ll be keeping down their prices.
Ching-chink. * pats back pocket *
Excuse the quality, or lack thereof - I took it with my phone.

The Evening Standard: grammar’s not an issue. Looks like spelling could do with some work, though.

Health and Safety can really spoil your enjoyment of the day’s first brew. My mug this morning:

For April, the weather is unseasonably warm. The weekend has been wall-to-wall sunshine, and hot with it. The trees are heavy with blossom, the skies an electric blue, and it feels for all the world like summer is here already.
So, deciding to take advantage of it while it lasts, we spent Sunday zizzing back and […]

OK, so it’s small, but this is the first of two shoots already popping up in the greenhouse. I didn’t expect to see anything so soon (we only planted them on Sunday) but as I briefly dropped in last night to squit them with water, there they were, poking their heads up through the soil.
It’ll […]

County Hall
I’d suggested we head out to Canary Wharf to take pictures of London’s tallest buildings before winter is gone and the darkness comes later. I wanted to catch the steam coming off the top of One Canada Square before winter is behind us and it turns too warm.
So, we met in front of Bush […]

The longest pleasure pier in the world
Southend today. Almost exactly a year - to the day - since the last time I was there. Very, very lucky with the weather.
It was bitterly cold at the end of the pier, which made the absence of McGinty’s all the more disappointing. I was looking forward to the […]