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| Re: Raining [message #50801 is a reply to message #50800 ] |
Wed, 18 July 2012 21:21   |
EMoon
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Registered: March 2009 |
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So that's where our rain went.
Oh, well. There was rain within sight (over 50 miles away) but none here today. However...the yarn I knew I could not resist but once was still there today, after the yarn shop emailed to say the yarn (a simple worsted wool in turquoise) had come in. I went in with no intention to buy the other yarn, but some spare cash had migrated to my purse mysteriously from the secret hideyhole (this yarn shop doesn't take my plastic.) I went in, looked at the ordered yarn, sat down and did a very quick & dirty gauge test.
Feeling unduly smug after that, I wandered the shop...and could not resist walking past the rack where That Yarn hung in skeins. Only two skeins left of the color that I...intended to resist. I felt it. I told myself no. I walked away. Other customers were there, and one of them reached out to fondle it. The moment she turned her back, I snagged both skeins like a kid snatching the last two cookies and stuffed it in with the ordered balls and stood by the cash register until the owner was free to ring them up.
I've never used that kind of yarn; I have no idea how to knit what I'm seeing in my imagination (me, in my concert blacks, which I also wear to conventions in the evening, with this thing somehow become a gorgeous stole or shawl, draped over my shoulders.) I suspect it will wait in the stash quite awhile.
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| Re: Raining [message #50807 is a reply to message #50800 ] |
Thu, 19 July 2012 08:12 |
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 AJLR
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Registered: September 2008
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It seems we may get a bit of 'normal' summer soon, if the Met Office is right about the Jet Stream finally shifting north a bit and so also shunting further north all these low-pressure systems that have been hitting us. I certainly hope so - I'm distinctly damp and mouldy round the edges myself at the moment.
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Previous generations’ alcopops. Feh.
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Oh I say, that's not quite fair. One can have Pimm's that isn't unduly sweet, it just depends what you mix it with. I used to enjoy the No 3 as well as the No 1 (which is good made with soda water and with borage flowers and cucumber chunks in it.
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And who belongs to one of these elite ringing groups so occult we revolting peons aren’t allowed to know its name, let alone its secret handshake.
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Have you read last week's 'The Ringing World', with the front page article about the mania...er, devoted handbell ringers who have completed long lengths of Minor, Major, Royal and Maximus in one day? I thought this was a lovely way of putting it: "This would need over 18 hours of ringing: a fairly full day." I am not sure that humans who can do that are really of the same species as the rest of us. 
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Raining [message #50810 is a reply to message #50800 ] |
Thu, 19 July 2012 13:39 |
CathyR
Messages: 577
Registered: July 2009
Location: NW England |
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Hurrah for the progress of your Abbey ringing. Long may it continue.
I was golden ... It was great
So pleased also about your return to New Arcadia and your bells. I do hope you can continue to enjoy ringing there again - on your own terms.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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