Attention, my fellow American-Australians! The David Jones Food Hall in Sydney currently has a massive display of Libby’s canned Pumpkin Pie Mix. Pumpkin Pie Mix! In Australia! I literally GASPED when I saw it today. And then I gasped again when the woman at the checkout charged me NINE DOLLARS for it.
Don’t forget… the Nicky Epstein Book Signing is tomorrow! I’ve been unpacking boxes of her books all afternoon. We’ve got all three “Edge” books ($49.99 each), “Knitted Flowers” ($39.99), and the new “Knitting Never Felt Better” ($39.99). See you tomorrow at the shop!
Sometimes I get really tired of being the “knitting Rain Man,” the person who’s expected to know every single knitting pattern and yarn EVER, and who constantly gets interrupted all day by questions about it. And I’m not talking about interruptions from customers; I’m talking about staff. It’s flattering to be the go-to person, but I think I’m about done with it.
Good news for Pommies (and Steve and Nath): British pubs have been spared from switching to metric and will continue to sell beer by the pint.
It’s still on, baby! Things are on the back burner, but I’ve been in contact with HR and she’s still hoping to find a position for me. Sweeeeet.
* You guys all guessed that, right?
Any of you Yanks willing to send me a Baker’s Edge pan? They look awesome, and I’ve never seen them here.
I am converting people to the way of the truffle. *drool*
Well, I finally caved to peer pressure* and knitted the damn Monkey Socks. They turned out pretty well! The yarn is the Lang Jawoll Cotton I got at the Craft Show earlier this year. (I forgot to use the matching thread to reinforce the heels and toes. D’OH!) I did them on 2.75mm needles to compensate for being such a tight knitter, and they still only just fit over my ankle. The combination of the lace stitch and the cotton yarn doesn’t make for a very elastic sock, but they’re still quite wearable. The only change I made to the pattern was to adapt them for knitting on two circs (so I could knit both at once).
* More than 1300 people have already knit this pattern and posted it to Ravelry, and 700 more have it in their queues. I don’t get the popularity. It’s a nice pattern, but 2000 people? That’s NUTS.
“…I was about your age then, maybe a little older, and in those days we always had a hot tea in the kitchen at five o’clock. I can remember exactly what was on the table that evening. It was my favorite thing of all, toad-in-the-hole, and my mum could make toad-in-the-hole like nobody else in the world. She did it in an enormous pan with yorkshire pudding very brown and crisp on top and raised up in huge bubbly mountains. In between the mountains you could see the sausages half buried in the batter. Fantastic it was…”
– Danny’s father in Danny the Champion of the World
How awesome is it that I live with someone who will indulge a whim and cook me a special dinner based on something out of a beloved children’s book? It was delicious.
Best. AskMetaFilter. Question. EVER. “Why is Justin Timberlake so hottttttt?” I actually tried to give a semi-serious answer. (It’ll probably get deleted in two seconds.)
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