The lease is expiring on my old laptop computer and the time is nigh for an upgrade, even though it’s one of the few inanimate objects with which I’ve bonded. The poor thing has to go to the auction house in less than two weeks and I may well find out the auction date and [...]
I have lots to say but continuing the pattern of scattered brain function to form sentences and arguments, so here, have some distracting pictures.
I had some balls of variegated wool that looked beautiful in the ball, but downright tacky when knitted up, so I made some socks for my mum. I’m calling them the ‘Peacock [...]
Something that’s been on my mind lately is the conservatism of hosiery designers. For the past few centuries, sock design and construction have changed barely an iota, as Exhibit A demonstrates:
See, I nearly made myself fall asleep. Now, consider Exhibit B, my twenty-first century sock design for the next few hundred years:
Several things [...]
And pursue the gentle art of knitting. I thought it would be nice to knit some pretty hand-made socks for my mother, who likes owls.
The ball on the right wasn’t like that before I left it alone for a few hours. The suspect is male, about six years of age, 25 centimetres tall, hairy, of [...]
