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My visit to the Ginstitute | Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater
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Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater. A blog about knowledge and knitting, politics and pickling, feminism and food. Welcome to my world! My visit to the Ginstitute. March 23, 2014. This Wednesday, I finally cashed in a voucher I had been bought for my birthday all the way back in November. The voucher was so beautiful that it constituted a present in itself for a stationary fiend like me, a rectangle of creamy card embossed with copper calligraphy:. Home of Portobello Road London Dry Gin. The hist...
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A Tour of Tea with Blends For Friends | Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater
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Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater. A blog about knowledge and knitting, politics and pickling, feminism and food. Welcome to my world! A Tour of Tea with Blends For Friends. January 6, 2016. In recent decades tea’s supremacy in England came into question, seeing it frequently dismissed as sophisticated coffee’s country cousin. But with the rising ‘vintage’ trend, the humble cuppa is once again becoming ‘cool’ evidence of this even as I made my way up Regent Street was the new T2. It’s very typic...
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2016, and the new sensation of not wanting anything new. | Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater
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Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater. A blog about knowledge and knitting, politics and pickling, feminism and food. Welcome to my world! 2016, and the new sensation of not wanting anything new. January 2, 2016. So, I’ve been holding out on writing my usual inevitable new year blog post. Normally I can’t wait, and post it a few days after Christmas, overly eager for the new year and its attendant exciting air of, well,. 8211; as described in blogs. No more deep pan Hawaiian left. We eventually took...
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Musings on management | Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater
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Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater. A blog about knowledge and knitting, politics and pickling, feminism and food. Welcome to my world! November 13, 2015. Wow, long time no blog! I started this one about 3 months ago, and things have changed since then but I still think it’s a useful reflection on management for anyone who, like me, is reaching the point in their library career where it is a consideration. Enjoy! Do at the macro level has mostly been someone else’s department. Looked at from this...
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Come on 2015, let’s be having you | Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater
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Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater. A blog about knowledge and knitting, politics and pickling, feminism and food. Welcome to my world! Come on 2015, let’s be having you. December 23, 2014. In a bit of a lull in the festive season, I have decided to get cracking on my new year’s resolutions. I mentioned last year. 1 Do fantastically well in my first permanent post-qualification Library role. 2 Make a home. Frankly, I think those two things together will be enough to be getting on with, don’t you?
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Rising to the challenge: Bread Ahead Bakery School’s Introduction to Sourdough | Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater
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Everything is better in a Fairisle Sweater. A blog about knowledge and knitting, politics and pickling, feminism and food. Welcome to my world! Rising to the challenge: Bread Ahead Bakery School’s Introduction to Sourdough. May 20, 2015. For Christmas, I gave the man a Fish Market experience. On that basis, I thought I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, and so signed up for the Introduction to Sourdough. Session. I ate a lot of sourdough when on holiday on the West Coast of the USA, and was...
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