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Excitement!

Denise is one of my most favourite people in the whole wide world.  Unfailingly generous (as recipients of her parcelly goodness will testify), wildly intelligent (Dr Denise as she is) and an excellent partner in retail crime to boot.

Now the good folks at Amazon have also noticed this. Well, ok, she probably hasn't been sending them presents but what they have figured out that she is talented, clever, witty and a great writer.  That is why her  story 'Tony's Wee Girl' is in the semi-finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition - all links here. The most insightful reviews win some great prizes so go and tell them how wonderful her work is.  Get this girl into the final, folks...

PS wrist issues mean I probably won't be posting as much for a while - better behave myself!

It's been a while

So just to recap a little, class....

It's been such a long time since I blogged.  All went well with Shaun the Sheep and the rest of the knitterly stuff for the Camden Green Fair.  It was really hot and Lucy baked the world's best brownies and we had a good laugh.  We may even have taught a few people to knit. 

International Knit in Public Day was on the 9th of June and we ambled along to Trafalgar Square to watch the security guards try to get all heavy with the guys from I Knit London - hilarious. 

Though we did agree that of everyone there, ironically,  Craig was definitely the person in possession of the most dangerous needles (the huge ones from Wool n Boat, he was using them to knit a curtain).  It was fun, until we decided that us three little white girls were getting burned to cinders despite the Factor 25 so we went to the National Portrait Gallery's cafe for lunch.  Or in the case of myself and Helen, for starters as we ended up having pad thai later. 

And on Sunday we went along to the Spitalfields City Farm, to the Sheep and Wool fair, where Claire was running knitting workshops.  On the way home, I stopped in to see Zoe - who made this bag - who has a stall at the Backyard Market.  She has lovely things and I think she's there for a few more Sundays - go and see.  (and if you need any other reason, I think these people are usually there too).

Now there's something else I need to tell you is, isn't there.... um.... oh yeah. Heh heh.
New York was everything I was hoping, as ever.  Now I'm sleepy and heading to bed to deal with the jet lag.  Once I clear some of the shopping off it....

More tomorrow.

Hey, if you're still waiting for swap packages, will you let me know?