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Lacking Pity
222. Miracle Ride by Tzipi Caton I’ve read this cover to cover in a few short hours this evening, and feel like I’ve learnt something from it, although I hope I already knew not to be quite so pushy...
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Success!
My platelets donation went perfectly today! We tried the right arm, since the left has been problematic for about a year, and even though the vein is not ideal, it’s evidently better than the scarred...
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Boys’ ideas of right and wrong
223. Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes I actually began reading this a few weeks ago, but didn’t get into it, and then found this very good reading of it among Librivox’ newly catalogued works....
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Family Values
No crocheting this week, as it’s the Nine Days, so the books have it, I’m afraid! As I suspected, all I now want to do is crochet, but I can’t, so there it is. 224. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai...
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More boys’ adventures
227. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Newly orphaned David Balfour leaves his quiet Lowland village in Scotland to seek his uncle and his fortune, and discovers that honour, politics and family ties...
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Exasperation
Still can’t crochet (although I am going through my crochet books to decide what to do with all that orange cotton), and I’m in the middle of a variety of longer books, so none of those are ready for...
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Making use
No new picture today, I’m afraid, but I have done another motif or two on the tablecloth. I’ve also printed out some filet patterns to play with. In fact they are meant as cross stitch patterns, but...
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Unexpected speakers
Sorry for the delay in this post (and for the shadow on the image — this was the most legible picture), but I wanted to finish the first filet piece of the tablecloth to show you. Appropriate, no? I’m...
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Questions of judgement
So, having coming up with lots of interesting phrases and comments to work into my tablecloth, how come I started this massive – and thus boring to do – picture that’s taking up a very large portion of...
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Images of Ireland and fictions of Africa
The weather was finally good enough to go for an outing yesterday, and Luna came along. On the way, she helped me work out my filet pattern. From the car park of Malahide Castle we walked across the...
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