Month: July 2006
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Cool! My Dad and his cool Harley motorcycle were featured in the local paper. It’s been a banner media week for the Howards!
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Man, sometimes I really miss living in London. 🙂
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As Snookums put it: “Ack. I’m confused. Are Microsoft evil or not? I can’t decide!!!“
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An Australian MeFite asks: Is recycled water really fit for human consumption?
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ABC Knit-In 2006Here’s me and Amy kickin’ it at this year’s ABC Knit-In. There were hundreds of people there knitting squares and sewing together blankets for Wraps With Love. Several members of the Knitters’ Guild Inner City group turned up, and we even got our picture taken with Adam Spencer! I’ll post more pictures as…
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Oh good grief. My little blurb in the Fashion Police section in the SMH is up, and I sound like a lunatic: Forget acupuncture, hypnotism and patches – they’re so five minutes ago when it comes to quitting smoking therapies. Craft enthusiast Kris Howard is calling all smokers to enrol in her very worthy Knit…
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Guess what just came in at the shop today? By popular demand, Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran! Looks like I may have to make a pair of these suckers after all.
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Books I’ve Finished Recently: – March by Geraldine Brooks. This one came highly recommended – both by Mary-Helen and the folks at Kinokuniya – but I have to say I’m a little conflicted about it. On one hand I think it’s a great story, well-told and engaging, and the author’s conceit of filling in the…
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I need a cigarette (smoker).Any unembarrassed Sydney smokers willing to do a little media whoring for me? Stupid publicist wants to run a piece in the SMH about this “Knit & Quit” class we’re running, and they want to have a picture of the class… before it actually runs. So we need a smoker willing…
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Another Click Survey, this time more abstract. I like seeing the surprising patterns of where people clicked. Edited: I had the URL wrong!