Are you sick of me rambling on about what a great trip I had yet? What I didn’t mention is that I went to Liberty’s and bought gorgeous buttons, Ells and Farrer for beads, John Lewis and bought beautiful buttons and a pattern book for the Noro goodness Peeve sent me, and Murder One to [...]
As 2006 is a special year where London celebrates China. I had to see the Chinese lanterns in Oxford Circus which Christine showed on her blog. Here is a photo of Chinatown. I was careful not to get in the big ugly excavations which seemed to be going on in the picture. London Borough of [...]
One of the main reasons for going to London was to visit Selfridges because there would be a temporary exhibition as part of the China celebrations. Song Dong was commissioned to create a piece of artwork called ‘Eating the City’ which is a city made completely out of biscuits and sweets. Even the base was [...]
One of my work colleagues recommended a place on Broadwick Street called Yuatcha. We entered the restaurant through a set of blue glass doors and were seated in the upstairs tea room for dim sum. Visually the restaurant is stunning and the food was excellent. The service was appalling and I’m posting lots of photos [...]
I haven’t mentioned this before but last week we ordered a fabulous sleigh bed and then decided that we needed to decorate. This gorgeous item is arriving on March 2nd so we have been madly trying to organise its new home. Knitting Olympics, notwithstanding, pao and I are now busy trying to get organised and [...]
Just a brief post to let you all know I now have a set of DPNs, a ball of Opal wool and a new pattern! And it seems to be working! Hooray! More about my great trip to London tomorrow
If you have been reading the Team Midwest Blog you will know that I have had to rip and redo my socks with a different pattern. I’m now trying a simple 3 x 1 rib from Magknits. Even though the pattern is quite simple working with the circular needles is proving quite frustrating and I’ve [...]
I was in the main office this morning when I spied that Eddie the postman had a big Jiffy bag in his green box and, guess what, it was for me! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. In addition to the lovely Noro goodness, the wonderful Peeve also sent Tim Tams [...]
We do do some work at work, honest!
Jasper, Merlin, Ophelia, Lucy, Phoebe, Perdita and Ariel send all their fellow blogcats lots of love and fish this Valentine’s Day. Special greetings to Chaos, Meiko, Dorian, Lulu, the Cat belonging to Eileen. MrsSJT, I just can’t remember all your cat’s names right now – brain has eroded. Message from them: Meow, meow, meow, meow, [...]