Month: October 2009
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Six.http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their album “Flood,” They Might Be Giants have written some track-by-track liner notes.
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Food for the Future FairJust a reminder that the 2009 Chippendale Food for the Future Fair will be held this Saturday, October 24th, from 10am-4pm. The Inner City group of the Knitters Guild (of which I am Convenor) will be giving free knitting lessons there all day long. It’s going to be a great day!…
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My sister has posted another picture of Indie in the dress I knitted her. Cutie!
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The Daily Telegraph has a short story on the random goat of Chippendale, who you’ll recall I actually got to meet. Neat! (Link courtesy of Life in Chippendale.)
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Morris and Sons Sale!Morris and Sons are having their occasional-but-increasingly-annual October Sale right now. This is kind of a weird one for me. It’s their first sale in five years that I haven’t been involved with in some capacity. All I did was send through instructions for updating the website. On one hand I guess…
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The Snook IMed me this morning to ask if I was secretly the author of this comic strip. I am not, but evidently the artist and I were separated at birth. That comic strip encapsulates every single one of my Grumpy Old Woman Pet Peeves.
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Outback AdventureThe photos from our trip to Adelaide, Alice Springs, and Uluru are now up! The main part of our trip was a three-day adventure camping trip with Wayoutback Desert Safaris. I can’t recommend this company enough. The trip was exactly what we hoped it would be, and it was worth every penny. Our small…
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Holy crap! There was an anti-fascist demonstration in Chippendale a few weeks ago. How did we miss this? Humanist House is right around the corner from us! Our Knitters Guild group used to meet there!
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Chippendale Planting & Gardening Day: Sat 24 OctoberNews from Michael Mobbs: Sydney Council has kindly given us plants to plant as part of the Food for the Future Fair on 24 October. And council has given us mulch to protect the trees we’ve planted. At 3 pm, after the bales of mulch serve their purpose…