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Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Today I wore my February Lady Sweater for the first time in months and I was reminded of a recent conversation with knitting friends. Last I went to my regular knitting group, most of us were working on cardigans or … Continue reading
Pre-Holiday Panic
It has been a week of woe in Casa Bookish. A possible burst water pipe, a plumber missing in action, parcels also missing (prompting a vaguely panicked last-ditch shopping expedition today) and a tonne of other mishaps great and small. … Continue reading
Canvas
Christmas came early this year. I just received this beautiful collographic print in the post. The sender? My artist uncle, Preben Andersen.The photo does not pay it justice as you don’t get the wonderful play between print and paper so … Continue reading
Squee
Knitting. I may be grumpy about it at times, but there is no denying that I love it. This year I have been participating in the 10 Shawls in 2010 group on Ravelry (though I have not been social at … Continue reading
Family
The Danish landscape is more subtle than Scotland’s but no less beautiful. My parents live on the outskirts of a large bog area famous for its archaeological finds (link in Danish) and today we went for a long drive through … Continue reading
Book Cover Versions
A good friend of mine wondered if she should read Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (coming later this year to a multiplex near you). I warned her that I found the book unbearably bland, despite its good premise. “If there … Continue reading
Damaged Sentences
Tom McCarthy’s C is my current commute + night-time reading. Except that I am so scatterbrained at the moment that I only manage a few pages every other day and it is almost due back at the library. Still, I … Continue reading
Idunn
Pope Benedict XVI is visiting Scotland and England over the next few days. I have never lived anywhere with a big Catholic community and it is interesting to see how Glasgow is reacting. I do not know if it is … Continue reading
Bricolage
The internet does weird things to how we are perceived and how we interact socially. Two recent examples: A New Zealander living in Scotland has contacted me through YouTube (where I have added a few Kiwi music videos to a … Continue reading
Journeys
Yesterday my colleague and good friend LH took me to the wonderful The Royal Edinburgh Repository and Self Aid Society on Castle Street. Kate Davies has written a whole post on it (and weaves in a bit of Jane Austen … Continue reading
