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postwar reconstruction
May. 18th, 2010 11:22 amI have to show off the first knitting project I've done since before Sara was born. It is all ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tiboribi's fault as she keeps pointing me to 1940s knitting patterns. These are out of a book called "Essentials for the Forces" which the Victoria & Albert Museum have made available on-line.
yes, they convert into mitts--perfect for sitting at my desk in our freezing house! Actually the cool thing about these is that the needles and wool I used were inherited from the cleared-out estate of our neighbor's 86-year-old mother when she died a couple of years ago.
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What else... Vintage ballpoints. I've managed to get hold of an "Eversharp Reporter" that dates to 1951 or '52. It's not particularly special but for a ballpoint it's pretty old. I am getting very clever about making old ballpoint pens work again. SO NERDY. I love writing with them.
and boy oh boy do I bestow the slanty rodent eyes on those pestilent SNIPERS on eBay who keep swiping Miles Martin Biros from me in the last 5 seconds of an auction. >_> EVIL PEOPLE
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This isn't anything to do with material obsessions I picked up while writing a novel this winter, butestara has very kindly written an article thanking me for a donation of the German edition of The Winter Prince to her school. She also talks about the way the Internet encourages a community relationship between writer and reader. I thank her for the lovely tribute! The story's here if you're a German reader.
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Remember Mark's snow caterpillar?
This is what the front garden looks like today.
tiboribi's fault as she keeps pointing me to 1940s knitting patterns. These are out of a book called "Essentials for the Forces" which the Victoria & Albert Museum have made available on-line. yes, they convert into mitts--perfect for sitting at my desk in our freezing house! Actually the cool thing about these is that the needles and wool I used were inherited from the cleared-out estate of our neighbor's 86-year-old mother when she died a couple of years ago.
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What else... Vintage ballpoints. I've managed to get hold of an "Eversharp Reporter" that dates to 1951 or '52. It's not particularly special but for a ballpoint it's pretty old. I am getting very clever about making old ballpoint pens work again. SO NERDY. I love writing with them.
and boy oh boy do I bestow the slanty rodent eyes on those pestilent SNIPERS on eBay who keep swiping Miles Martin Biros from me in the last 5 seconds of an auction. >_> EVIL PEOPLE
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This isn't anything to do with material obsessions I picked up while writing a novel this winter, but
estara has very kindly written an article thanking me for a donation of the German edition of The Winter Prince to her school. She also talks about the way the Internet encourages a community relationship between writer and reader. I thank her for the lovely tribute! The story's here if you're a German reader.-----------------
Remember Mark's snow caterpillar?
This is what the front garden looks like today.