Well, I never expected to find myself a knitting group quite so far away but a trip to Minnesota was just where I found them! We fly from New York with the briefest of stops in Chicago in time to grab a sandwich before we were off again (we’re definitely going to stop in Chicago [...]
I had three places on my New York to see list: 1. The Flat Iron Building – we didn’t see it so I now have the perfect ‘go back’ excuse 2. The Empire State Building 3. The Statue of Liberty Two out of three isn’t bad! We got on a bus down to Battery Park [...]
Picking up on my travelogue since the folks in Minnesota might want to see my photos of our fantastic adventures this side of Christmas; I thought I’d show you some random photos from Greenwich Village where Purl and The Point are located. I was struck by how wonderfully short everything was in comparison to the [...]
I survived my first set of lectures both on web technologies and for my English MA today. I am starting to think I must be completely bonkers to do both those things at the same time but I am so glad that I am. I have thought for a while that intellectually I’m stagnating a [...]
I had my first formal session as a new postgrad student today. It was pretty strange because I am at least 10 years older than all the other people I’ll be studying with. I don’t know how well I’m going to like it but I’ll give it a try. I met a nice girl called [...]
Crazy crazy day today so we went to Ikea after work. You think I would have had enough of travelling after a two and half hour round trip to another site then a breakneck dash back to Canterbury in time for another presentation at 2pm. No siree, we hopped in the car and went on [...]
I got home earlier today – woohoo! I think you’ve been enjoying the yarn-a-logue so I thought I’d tell you a bit about the yarn shops we visited. First up was Purl which Lolly mentioned on her blog a while ago. We visited on a Sunday so it was a little hard to get around [...]
(click on tiny photos for larger versions) The photo which pao and I were standing in the way of on Saturday is of the American side of the Falls. When we were planning our trip back in April, we booked through Expedia and after we’d booked our hotels, we saw one of the trips they [...]
I am interupting the travelogue for today as we travelled to Romford to meet up with Nic and to meet up with some other knitbloggers including the very talented Kerrie from HipKnits. As the very lovely Deb is hosting a virtual happy hour competition, I thought that our afternoon knitting away in Starbucks might be [...]
Conversation at student registration today. Me: So where can I get information on getting a student discount card? SU person: Well, your father (looking directly at pao) has picked up a leaflet already. Hey, I’m not complaining especially since I was carded twice in the US. Poor pao. (The photo is just a hint of [...]