I did not expect my call with a US tax accountant to be so amusing, but what can you do but laugh? “Nobody knows how the next four years are going to play out.” “We just need someone to tweet Elon about it.” 😂🤷♀️
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Slow Down
“[W]hy do boomer men refuse to slow down?” A really good piece from The Guardian about how difficult it can be for older men to accept that they can’t do everything they used to, or that they want to. Or as I put it to Rodd: “Oh look, someone wrote an entire article about our Dads.”
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Shared today on Facebook
I finished the alpaca beanie for Rodd! This was purely to use up the extra bits I had left over from making his scarf. I casted on 132 stitches and then just made the pattern up as I went. I put in a band of the same slipstitch pattern I used on the scarf, and I did radial decreases at the crown. I just need to weave in the ends and give it a block!
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Alpaca Beanie
I finished the alpaca beanie for the Snook! This was purely to use up the extra bits I had left over from making his scarf. I casted on 132 stitches and then just made the pattern up as I went. His scalp is pretty sensitive and he doesn’t like hats that grip too tightly, so I only did a minimum amount of ribbing at the bottom. (The alpaca is nice and soft too.) I put in a band of the same slipstitch pattern I used on the scarf, and I did radial decreases at the crown. I just need to weave in the ends and give it a block!
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Shared today on Facebook
Trying to convince the Snook that he should make us a timpano for Christmas dinner, using @stanleytucci’s recipe from his book Taste…
Have any of you ever worked for the AEC? (I know Kristin Apolony has.) I’m considering volunteering as a poll worker for the next election here. You have to pledge to be “politically neutral” and I’m not quite sure what falls under that. I’m pretty sure that “volunteering to support democracy” probably counts as partisan activity in certain, uh, large countries in the world.
I’m making good progress on the alpaca beanie I’m knitting for Rodd to match his scarf. No pattern; I’m just making it up as I go. #knitting
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Beanie progress
I’m making good progress on the alpaca beanie I’m knitting for Rodd to match his scarf. No pattern; I’m just making it up as I go.
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Wrapstodon
My Mastodon instance (aus.social) is participating in “Wrapstodon,” where the server generates some fun end-year-stats for you. My most popular post was this one featuring my niece Indie’s embroidered sneakers!
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Timpano
Trying to convince the Snook that he should make us a timpano for Christmas dinner, using Stanley Tucci’s recipe from his book Taste.
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Shared today on Facebook
My friend Kristin Apolony mentioned on Facebook yesterday that she would have a stall at the Moore Park Christmas Markets, and she asked if anyone could come cover her for a bit at lunchtime. I volunteered! So I’m helping to sell her very clever 3D-printed puzzle gift boxes. And I made a sale!!
After more than 20 years of having the same timber dining room set, today we sold it and set up the new one. SCHMICK!! 😍
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New dining room set!
After more than 20 years of having the same timber dining room set, today we sold it and set up the new one. SCHMICK!! 😍
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…