Pamela Boxall
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Not as intelligent as I’d hoped
I like to scan through the comments that WordPress, very accurately it so happens, assigns to my “spam” folder. Mostly they are gibberish, the sender gets blocked (I know it’s pointless as they are throw-away user identities, but I do it anyway) and the comment gets permanently deleted. Sometimes, though, they are a hoot, like… Continue reading
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Make it easy on yourself
During the past week I’ve made a couple of changes to how I was working the Slope Rib Sweater, with an eye to making the process more enjoyable. You can see both of them in the above photo – wooden needles and a bit of scrap wool. I like to live at the cutting edge… Continue reading
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A lot to like
Aware that I suffered a fit of damning with faint praise when I wrote about the Cross Bailey Light fountain pen on Friday, today I’m going to be more enthusiastic about Filofax’s new decorative accessories. Over the past month four Collections have launched – the Garden Collection, the Indigo Collection, the Confetti Collection and, most… Continue reading
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This old thing?
I’ve been keeping this pen under wraps since I bought it back in November and I hadn’t really intended to write about it. However, the mood has gripped me and it ties into a wider discourse about the fountain pens I buy, so here we are. That’s pretty much exactly what I think about this… Continue reading
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Under-inspiring
I’m going to apologise in advance because I think this might be a slightly underwhelming blog post. That said, I don’t expect you generally visit with high hopes for earth-shattering marvels… there are limits to just how exciting knitting and ink are ever going to be, after all. I have succeeded in completing the second… Continue reading
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Every day’s a school day
I was pretending again on Friday, but there’s a lot to be learned through playing make-believe. On the most practical level, I pretended to be at the coffee shop, lapping up the ambient noise, with my laptop and my cereal bar and my Espresso House coffee flask providing those Scandinavian coffee chain vibes. It wasn’t… Continue reading
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