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Genius, providing it can be done in 24 hours with very little forward planning. Menopausal mum, trainee English teacher, rookie comedian, knitter, writer, among others things rookie. She/her.
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When the Home Office get you DOB on your British citizenship renunciation certificate wrong but provide you with no reliable means of contacting them. After a dozen phone calls and bounced emails. I'm posting a letter registered post. Andrew Moore, home office Liverpool, CT8: why 😭

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A poet performed her poem about her mixed feelings about smoking on Craig Charles 6music afternoon show in early january. Can I find where I noted her name? Can I fk. I swear I saved her on Instagram. I just can't keep up with modern life anymore.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Had a challenging afternoon trying to write a letter.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The flu is lifting after 5 days of head and body splitting aching. Today my temp is back down, and sp02 back up. Just left sounding like Marlene Dietrich, daaaarling.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Enjoying this tremendously.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Enjoying this tremendously.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Gloves finished!

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve digitally remastered another of Kenny Everett’s Radio Bristol programmes, being broadcast today on Radio 4 Extra at 1000, 1600 + midnight. It’s a work of art + includes an interview with John Lennon not heard since it went out on July 3, 1971. Now on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

And here's the link to my first pattern on Ravelry. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting #knittingsocks #cats

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Clara’s cat paw socks – Knitting Pattern This pattern is deliberately sized for larger feet - these socks are easy to find in girl's/women’s sizes, but not so much for a 16-year-old boy with size EU42 feet (Medium in this pattern).

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Cat paw socks! I designed my first pattern #sockknitting #knitting

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

What Apple, Google, and Amazon’s websites looked like in 1999. Take a ride on the internet time machine. mashable.com/article/90s-... #Webdesign #flashback #apple #google #amazon

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

A few years back, I worked the Christmas post in the sorting office between Utrecht and Nieuwegein. I'd spend a shift on a +-40m machine. The worst part was pulling out chewed up Xmas cards, mostly when people don't seal them. I'm posting this lot, sealed, on Friday the 13th for good luck 🤞.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

You know you're getting old when you dig out your address book to send Xmas cards and every other page has the address of somebody no longer with us.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

My exam marking assistant is ready.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

😎 Be Internet Awesome beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interl... Free for your students. #GoogleEDU

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Cattage

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I listened for 9.594 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

That's the right hand done. Now to complete the pair. #gloveknitting #latviancolourworkknitting #knitting

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The Ancient Cat Elder of Miaow Miaow and her night guardian. A stirring in the still of the night. Clara, warm from the great body beneath, moves herself out of harm's way as the ancient mother rolls herself out of bed, shuffling towards the toilet. Clara, known to some, as A-piece-of-the-night,…

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Making slow progress, but progress none the less. #latvianbraidknitting #knittinggloves #knitting

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

We've been from Dom Utrecht to Dom Köln today. Cologne didn't disappoint. Including the Christmas markets, food and drinks!

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I managed to get an afternoon studying done at the HU and was rewarded on the way back with the most sublime sunset. Dutch weather isn't always shitty.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Two nice things so far today. 1. I remembered to go to my hospital scan referral - GP only put it through yesterday, I got a call an hour later... didn't put it in my calendar. Only just remembered 😬. 2. They were the first to ask me for my new Dutch ID card. That's a cherry popped!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Today's pots #pottery it's been at //least 6 months since my last throw. My hands are lovely and soft. Two large mugs (1&3) and a couple of bowls me thinks.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

If this is true, surely the US needs to look up the word democracy.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I'm trying my hand at Latvian colour work and braiding. I took a sock pattern and used it for gloves. I've yet to do the flap. I'm really pleased with the braiding around the fingers.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment