I recently came across a beautiful and fascinating set of images on Flickr. They are maps, compiled by Eric Fischer from the metadata of geotagged images on Flickr and Picasa. The set is called The Geotaggers’ World Atlas and is a fascinating thing to behold. All the maps are to the same scale (a […]
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This is my grandmother’s school certificate for Domestic Subjects for the school year 1928-29. She was 13. I’m particularly interested in the laundrywork aspect. Until I thought about it, I had no idea that you would learn that in particular at school. I knew about the cookery and general housekeeping parts, but had imagined that
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Diane was one of my subjects for a piece of research on learning to sew at school in the 1940s and ’50s. A lifelong devotee, she still sews her clothes today and is pleased that her eyesight is still good enough at 79 to handsew invisible stitches. Diane: Gradually at school… we… did all
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Venta, the knitted neck warmer to end all pub discussions about neck warmers has had a pattern revamp. In the interests of updating, I made a couple of small adjustments to the knitting pattern, donned my lippy and taken some new photographs. Venta is now up for sale, here on Ravelry through my shop. It
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I’m just nipping in quickly to say that Giles and I now have a beautiful little girl, Poppy, who arrived 7 weeks early on 3rd January. I’m going to be on maternity leave for a while yet, but will be slowly working on my blog as time allows. See you soon!
