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Four Seasons in One Day

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Karie

Yesterday we had snow, rain, thunder and sunshine .. and it looks like this pattern will continue today. Four seasons in one day. Who am I to resist posting this: PS. worst cover ever?

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Aye Write: The Aftermath

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Karie

Jonathan Coe cancelled Aye Write, he bloody well did. I had even brought along my hardback copy of The Rain Before It Falls (not my favourite, but my nicest copy of a Coe book) and a big bucket of courage … Continue reading →

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Weirdness Ensues When I Take My Eye of the Ball

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Karie

Don’t you just hate when Real Life interferes with important things such as blogging? I have a multitude of things going on at the moment, alas. To paraphrase an old, old Alison Moyet song, my head is so full it … Continue reading →

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Shiny!

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Karie

NASA needs your help to name Node 3 of the international space station. A short-list of names have been drawn up for your perusal .. and “Serenity” is one of the possible names. (For the ones among you going bzuh: … Continue reading →

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Things I Have Learned

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Karie

In the past week I have learned that: The majority of my friends here in the UK are either bloggers who knit or knitters who blog. I had a really nice birthday lunch the other day and counted just three … Continue reading →

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Aye Write ’09

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Karie

The Aye Write literary festival lineup is pretty good – and for the first time since I moved to “Glasga”, I can actually go! I have booked tickets to see Jonathan Coe and Andrew Crumey in conversations with Rodge Glass … Continue reading →

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Still Coughing

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Karie

Meanwhile, British steampunk enthusiasts are now hiding their retro-styled reinventions of common househole items under their brass beds for fear of being visited by the long arm of the law themselves io9 looks into a British newsstory about a rogue … Continue reading →

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Hogmanay Etc

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Karie

This is my favourite photo of 2008. I shot it in early August when we went to Sweden for a day. The weather was incredibly hot (although not particularly sunny) and all these tanned, long-limbed Swedish teenagers were hurling themselves … Continue reading →

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Comfort Reading

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Karie

The last Christmas present has been wrapped (Misty Garden by Jo Sharp in Rowan Damask), I have had a lovely pre-Christmas get-together with friends and I ‘just’ need to pack my bag now. Yes, that was a slightly hysterical ‘just’ … Continue reading →

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Joss Whedon Is Crafty

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Karie

It’s an age-old war. Like the werewolves and the vampires. I think Underworld was actually originally about crocheters and knitters but they thought it would be too controversial so they changed it to vampires and werewolves. Buffy, Firefly, Dr Horrible’s … Continue reading →

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