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Mr and Mrs Lili Wedding

 

Frustration

I began a lovely pair of socks for myself recently.

And as I prepared to turn the heel (they were toe-up), I found I was short a stitch. There were no dropped stitches, I was just short one. So I frogged it all, chalking it up to my first time doing a provisional cast-on and toe-up sock, and started again.

I paid attention, I followed instructions (for once), I did everything that was asked of me (again, fairly uncommon).

I'm still one damn stitch short. How?

Best answer wins eternal adoration as my knitting goddess.

Seriously.

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Compelling reasons to get a car

A 6 1/2 foot tall colleague of mine was mugged for his cellphone by a guy with a knife, in broad daylight, outside the business park, on a busy main road.

My commute is an hour from door to door each way - but when it rains, it can be 1 1/2 hours.

(It rains a lot in Dublin.)

It would be convenient to be able to drive places and do things when it suited us, not just when it suits Dublin Bus/ Bus Eireann/ the DART or the Luas.

And most compellingly, this morning on the bus, the guy behind me puked, with 30 minutes left in my journey.

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No blog, but a photo

Added to my "Exploring Dublin" photo-set, a photo of Christ Church from the balcony of our new apartment.



As it's been one of those days at work that has taken disproportionately more energy than normal , I have nothing much to say. We are watching an episode of of Wife Swap where an Orthodox Jewish family is being mixed up with a fairly down-home Kentucky family (think physics professions vs. prison guards) - so that should be interesting.

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