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Monthly Archives June 2008

Just Call Me Ariadne

Friday afternoon I went through my yarn stash and decided to give some of it to charity. Okay, so it was some not-really-funky cheap acrylic novelty yarn that I picked up at the beginning of my knitting career (i.e. February), but it doesn’t matter if the destashed yarn was cheap and nasty - I destashed [...]

Posted 08 June 2008 † Karie § Craft § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (0)

Not Geeky, Not Geeky

Somehow I don’t think they’re talking about me.. but in related news I was invited to join GUGS today.

Posted 05 June 2008 † Karie § Personal § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (0)

When I Say Bad, I Mean BAD

Danish blogger Emme has a category of books she calls “matadormix” - “mixed candy”. These books do not ask much of you as a reader: they’re easy to zip through, leave you feeling slightly bloated if you overindulge and there’s a bit of everything in them. “Mixed candy”, indeed.
These past few days I’ve made [...]

Posted 05 June 2008 † Karie § Literature § Popular Culture ‡ Comments (3)

I Will Drink Life To the Lees

It’s deeply unfashionable, of course, but I love me some Lord Alfred Tennyson. “Ulysses” continues to resonate strongly with me:

I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make [...]

Posted 04 June 2008 † Karie § Literature ‡ Comments (0)

When Friends Become Famous

All I can say is that I know and love this Terry Wogan and we had a splendid Eurovision party together.

Posted 03 June 2008 † Karie § Personal § Popular Culture § Scotland ‡ Comments (0)