Pattern: Pyukkleen by Ysolda TeagueYarns: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in the Bamboo Heather, Baltic Heather, Camel Heather, Shire Heather, Coal and Brass Heather colorways.Needles: Size 9 circs and DPNs I liked this pattern. It was a good intro to colorwork (I made some notes in my last blog post that I will […]
We spent our last full day in London wandering around the British Museum. This was a strategic decision – we weren’t walking over a wide area, and they do provide regular places to sit down. Even, so BF tapped out not long after lunch, so K and I ended up heading off for
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You know, I really liked Possession, and several of Byatt’s fairy tale based short story books are wonderful. I can’t even really tell you what these stories were about – they were so high literary I was just plowing through so I could get to the end. I’m really not sure why I
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Yeah, I had to skim the last few chapters of this book. It falls into Heyer’s older man marries younger woman seemingly for convenience, but it’s really a love match, except the two haven’t told each other, so shenanigans ensue trope. In this case, the book unfolds with Lord Cardross (Giles) firmly scolding
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This is the story of David Lebovitz’s decision to start his life completely anew and move to Paris. There’s a lot to read here about culture shock, and some of the things you can expect if you wanted to move there. Actually, it’s probably good reading for anyone wanting to just travel
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Kayl was once a member of the Sisterhood of Stars, but on a mission for them, when things go disastrously wrong, and the Sisterhood tries to blame the sorcerers they were traveling with, Kayl leaves the Sisterhood behind, and marries one of those sorcerers. They end up running an inn in a quiet
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Razo is pretty ordinary –he’s not particularly tall, or a particularly good soldier. So he’s really not sure why he’s been asked to go along on an important diplomatic mission to Tira, the country that Bayern just defeated in a terrible war. But Razo’s friend Enna (the fire mage that defeated the Tirans, though
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I adore these books – the story of Sophronia Temminnick, who is more or less the charity case at Miss Geraldine’s Finishing School, which is really a school specializing in training young ladies in espionage. On a dirigible. Have I mentioned it’s twinned with a boy’s school for evil geniuses? Book two involves
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On the next day, we learned that we’re apparently only meant to go to Richmond by public transportation once a trip. We attempted to go to Hampton Court, but nearly were trapped when trying to transfer from the tube to a train. A tube train had gotten stuck on the track. (We
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