Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 34
June 2, 2019
Well, that’s the end of the mystery parcel
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That’s 600m of Scheepjes Colour Crafter, the start of a lapghan.
I’m pleased with this WIP: it has shown me that I can crochet pretty well; and I don’t have to yearn to crochet like anyone else !
May 30, 2019
When you’re on a roll …
THE HYPNOTIST VISITS THE SENIORS’ HOME
It was entertainment night at the Senior Citizens’ Centre.
After the community singalong led by Alice at the piano, it was time for the star of the show – Claude the Hypnotist.
Claude explained that he was going to put the whole audience into a trance – “Yes, each and every one of you, and all at the same time !” said Claude.
The excited chatter fell away as Claude carefully withdrew from his waistcoat pocket a beautiful antique gold pocket-watch and ch...
May 29, 2019
I always get pulled in, dammit !
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I have a friend who’s a serial emailer: he never gets fooled by these before he broadcasts them worldwide.
I do, every time. Sighh …
May 27, 2019
Word rage !
The two latest mix-ups propagating the Web right now – and over the past month or so – are being used to the point where I could SCREAM.
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That one first, as it’s been picked up by anglophone dickheads all over the world and used instead of
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Frankly, where any of the halfwits using the word even came up with ‘discrete’ amazes me: I wouldn’t’ve thought they’d ever come across it.
If you experience this misuse in your Web wanderings, feel free to quote me and my choler. If users get crapped on e...
The Mystery of the Unexplained Parcel and what it led to
In getting settled into my new abode, I left the yarn sorting till almost last (the end will be the arranging in alphabetical order by writer the few books I’ve hung on to, and the DVDs, too: what, me ? – anally retentive ? – rubbish !).
And amongst the skeins and balls and cakes and semi-frogged articles I found an AusPost parcel, still in its bright red and white plastic (ugh !) envelope. Why had I not opened it, whenever it arrived ? – I have no idea. Not the foggiest. But there it was, so...
May 22, 2019
Here I am …
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou
There have been times – many of them, I think – when I have felt strongly that someone was about to hector me about something. Not Chic: he hectored me on so few occasions that I can no longer remember them. This feeling goes back to my youth – to my home and my school. Why it wraps its hood around me at this stage of my life is pretty weird and says a fair bit about me, alas.
But now …?...
May 20, 2019
Back to Basics
When a post from a followed blog – Pippinpoppycock.com – pointed to Lucia’s Fig Tree and her Vintage Walrus design, I gasped: if that isn’t a summation of everything glorious about motif crochet, I don’t know what is.
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One can say “such colours !”, but any colours would do: the original for this beauty is almost monochrome, and it still looks wonderful.
Am I going to have a go at it ? – what do you think ?!
It’s going to cost a motza for the yarn, because what would be the point...
May 19, 2019
On with Life !
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Jim Lahey, I thank you ! – even if my smoke detector went off every time I had to open the oven (thrice: once it had heated and I put the pot back in containing the dough; once to take the lid off after half an hour; once to get it all out !) because of having the heat setting on roughly 260C.
I watched the famous video again last night, and decided that IT MUST BE ABLE TO BE DONE. Meaning that some years back I simply couldn’t get the dough to the right consistency, in spite of much advice...
May 18, 2019
May 16, 2019
Hmmm …
Things going well, but my mood not so much.
Have had to submit a claim via the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal – referred to only as VCAT – to try to get back my bond from the previous unit. I took back the keys on Thursday of last week, and followed up with an irritated email of enquiry, but still nothing. Just, like, nothing. So I applied to VCAT to get back my bond. Had this email from the agent later that day:
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I replied within the same minute:
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and have heard, since then, not a...
