We had a nice Bank Holiday Weekend (three-day weekend) here, the weather actually warmed up — rather too fast IMO — and the sun has been coming out more than in the last nine months put together.  Which has actually made photography a little difficult, I’m not used to full, bright sun! Anyway, important reminder: [...]

Tags: British sunshine, coffee cozies, fibromyalgia, genealogy show, loom knitting, Time Team
Filed under: General Housekeeping, Randomness

Many thanks to Daniella for pointing out that Malabrigo Organic Cotton is now available at WEBS.  It’s pricey, but with the pound being strong it worked out to be affordable for me.  I also took the time to get some of my new everyday-workhorse favourite yarn, Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk (I need to photograph those [...]

Tags: arucania cotton, debbie bliss, debbie bliss alpaca silk, fibromyalgia, google, Malabrigo, Malabrigo cotton, malabrigo organic cotton, organic cotton, pesticides
Filed under: Projects and Plans

This is a self-portrait from Meez.com.  You’ve probably seen it on other blogs, as there is a knitting animation that you can have your virtual self doing   This is pretty close to accurate, but of course all avatars look better than the real thing!  Here you see me dressed as usual in a t [...]

Tags: canes, charity knitting, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Lion Brand Yarns, meez, multiple chemical sensitivity, P.A.N.D.O.R.A., self-portrait, wheelchair use
Filed under: Randomness

Warning: No crafting content here, but perhaps some frothing at the mouth.  I can’t even begin to say how much it irritates me that another round of Fibromyalgia-denial has begun.  What’s a bit odd is that they are using the US FDA’s approval of a drug to treat fibro (which was months ago) as their [...]

Tags: fibromyalgia, idiot doctors, lyrica, NHS, pregabalin, US health care
Filed under: Randomness