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Counting the Days
This entry’s by request.. Starting on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, Danes will open so-called “advent presents” and light a candle in their advent krans (I have not made an advent krans since the year one caught fire in my … Continue reading
Posted in Denmark, Personal, Popular Culture
Tagged Denmark, family, jul, traditions, xmas, youtube
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Look! A Yule Pig!
My gran sent me a pile of knitting patterns from her ladies’ magazines. I always enjoy looking at these patterns. Many are reprinted patterns from yarn companies’ leaflets, but they are recent reprints and often patterns I would not have … Continue reading
Christmas Time (Almost)
I smell like a smoked sausage. Sunday afternoon was spent outside in our garden carolling, eating mince-pies, drinking mulled wine and huddling in front of little wood burners. It was very, very enjoyable and I hope it will turn into … Continue reading
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Tagged Denmark, family, personal stuff, traditions
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It Is Not Entirely My Own Fault
Following on from yesterday’s Chomsky snippet, here is an article asking Can You Teach Your Kid To Have Taste? The premise is that a classical music reviewer has been dragging his ten-year-old son along to work and has begun wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Film, Literature, Music, Personal, Popular Culture
Tagged identity, musings, self, traditions
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What Do You Mean By “It’s Only July”?
The first family request for a Christmas wish list usually pops up about a month after my birthday. I’m a February child. Lately I’ve found myself asking my Other Half what he wants for his birthday. His birthday is in … Continue reading
Webs We Weave
How badly do I want this uppercase scarf? Pretty badly, I tell you. The scarf led me on a typographic journey of the net which yielded new interesting sites: the & Blog, Bembo’s Zoo which is seriously cool, FontStruct which … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Craft, Knitting, Literature, shopping, typography, yarn
Tagged Art, books, games, geek, illustrations, lettering, Literature, love, Print Culture, qwerty, technologies of writing, texts and words, traditions
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Riddle Me This: What Can You Do With Paper?
Today a gækkebrev arrived. Literally meaning “a riddling letter”, a gækkebrev is a letter in the shape of an elaborate paper cut-out with a riddle written in its middle. Sometimes a snowdrop is included with the letter, sometimes the riddle … Continue reading
