The general musings of an artistic type during strange times...
NOTALOT - 06/11/20
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In the current circumstances, I don't feel inclined to work up a proper, written blogpost, so I am afraid you will just have to make do with an off-the-cuff ramble, by clicking HERE
You can find the spoken version here Wow, it's ages since I ran a blog! I've done them before over the years, but they inevitably run out of steam (my baking blog) or just end naturally (my 2007 holiday blog). Anyway, too much time on my hands in these plague-ridden times calls for radical action... The blog will be odd jottings and musings about 'this and that' - things I find interesting, amusing, even irritating,mostly related to my interests...
As usual, the spoken bit's HERE This time last year, at the beginning of the first lockdown, I made a list of all the things I wanted to achieve. Amongst a wide variety of stuff was learning to crochet. Now there are many thousands of good people out there in You Tube Land showing off their crochet skills, some of them are even quite good teachers. I was fairly ruthless in my elimination - some folk have annoying mannerisms of speech, some I simply could not understand properly (there are some American accents I find almost impenetrable I'm afraid - I am British, after all!). But in the end I had a nice selection of channels who gave out good information and explained things to my satisfaction. Among several, there were Bonny Bay, Hooked by Robin, Olga Poltrova, Fiber Spider and Mikey from The Crochet Crowd. In the process of all this learning, I found myself downloading patterns where I could and learning to read them (thank y...
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