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Archive for September, 2008
Foodie
How can we have gotten to October (practically) without an in-depth analysis and celebration of The Heston Blumenthal Naples Pizza quest? How can so many amazing meals have been invented and enjoyed over the past few weeks without so much as a mere mention? Lest any time pass between the delicious trout of yesterday evening’s […]
Domestic unbliss / washing up…
You may remember the code I devised for ‘washing up types’ many months ago whilst working on the Fantastical Reality Radio Show with Mundane Appreciation?According to that scale I position myself resolutely as a type C washer-upper; i.e. I dislike doing it, I leave it until it absolutely must be done (i.e. there is nothing […]
Apples and Pea-tatoes
Our apple tree has produced its annual glut of fruit and we have gone crazy making stuff from the fruit. Today we had apple and cider sauce with parsnip mash and duck for tea, and baked an apple harvest cake. Tomorrow, parsnip and apple soup are planned as well as an invented trout and apple […]
Brassica Brassica Cabbage (BBC)
I am working on a short, 10-minute piece for OCM’s BBC Oxford broadcasts about Magic Hour and my work with sounds. It is proving harder than I thought to link the ideas – for example – the work I made for FRRS, with my role in the feedback shed. Thankfully, it should all make sense […]
Volcanoes
Until I went to Naples I had never been anywhere near live Volcanoes. It was very exciting to experience volcanic landscapes; to listen to the bubbling mud at Solfatara and to hear water steaming out of the hot ground at 150 and 160*C temperatures. I made lots of recordings of the steam at Solfatara but […]
Collage
Yesterday I was helping Sam with his homework. His assignment was to make an all-blue collage. I loaded up the dining room table with blue goodness; envelope interiors, old offcuts of J-cloths used in Fantastical Reality Radio Show productions, airmail stickers, tissue paper from my birthday package that Caro sent me (I save *all* the […]
rainbows…
The dyed yarn is all drying off. It has been a very exciting but intensive few days! What a lot of boiling water, rinsing yarn, drying yarn, weighing out mordants, chopping up leaves, cleaning mud and spiders off things and lugging big kettles of water around has been going on! Hats off to Katie for […]
Vegspiration 2
Knit your own vegetables in this imaginative workshop led by artist, knitter, writer and gardener, Felix. In this workshop you will: Learn how to organise your waste yarn for maximum vegetable-knitting  inspiration Learn techniques for improvising vegetables in the round Start knitting a vegetable of your choice and leave with all the materials you need […]
Vegspiration
I am amazed and delighted by the sheer quantity of produce emerging from our garden right now. Coming from untrained and totally suburban roots, the fact of growing my own food or producing stuff from the garden still feels like a constant miracle to me. Skills and knowledge are effortfully and deliberately acquired rather than […]
Stupid WordPress!
The carefully composed piece I just wrote about clothes, wool-winding, wardrobe healing etc. has all been demolished by some stupid, ‘Internal server error’ in WordPress. I am too annoyed to re-write it! But look: I wound all my wool! Thanks Ruth for all the help with winding the wool and wow, I won’t be buying […]
Learning the ropes…
I won’t bore you with loads of details re: WordPress. Let’s just say I’m learning. What I really want to do now, though, is get all editions of the Fantastical Reality Radio Show up in the podcast player I just installed. Let’s see how this goes…
Ravelympics update finally!
It is time to reflect on my performance in the Ravelympics. Firstly, I have learned that I am no knitting athlete. I am better at over-committing to things than completing things and I have boundless optimism when it comes to gauge-ing how long my projects are going to take. That’s a nice way of saying […]
Moved!
It is extremely strange to be in WordPress but I’m certain that it makes more sense for my blog to be here than over on my much-loved but outgrown ‘knitaluscious’ URL. It is harder for me to figure out the way I want WordPress to look, but I expect there is some way of developing […]
Unmitigated Joy
Imagine my delight when a parcel arrived for me, unexpectedly, this morning. What joy was inside! A Yorkshire Tea Box plus a booklet containing all the Yorkshire Tea merchandise I can exchange my tokens for: Bonus tokens: This AMAZING yarn From The Yarn Yard: and a postcard featuring shed/caravan image of joy: Thanks so much […]
The End, already…
The shed has been dismantled and my Pops collected it early today to take back to the family home for use as a potting shed. I am really happy that my Mum will get some use out of it and it was really great to be able to share the joy of the whole project […]
The Shed of Dreams
I have fallen deeply, madly and passionately in love with my little feedback shed. I do not need or want or have the space for a garden shed in my life and so I will not be keeping it in any long-term way. I also know that if it ever comes home with me, it […]
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