also I'm a fuckin wreck, don't like seein it all laid out

@nprofile1q... Aberdonian!

I've started writing the email - War and Peace is looking like a short story.

this, but the needle is under your armpit (oxter) for stability and you hold the working yarn in your left hand, over index finger and knit the stitch off your thumb. otherwise identical.

known as "casting on" no origin attached.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QFkDiqhBXeQ

I do not want to fill in this survey and write a covering note and organise posting it

I do not want to write the email to the dentist chap

I do not want to cook veg this afternoon

@nprofile1q... I hadn't seen this!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dBnvLb5s66g

@nprofile1q... yep. the worst ones are the single huge bang (rockets?) just out of the blue. makes you jump.

@nprofile1q... bonfire night this year we had 7 and a half hours of it. but they were going off somewhere around pretty much every night since late september, and they didn't stop til mid/late Nov.

@nprofile1q... so there will still be some using them without a licence, partic' in cities and suburbs, to cause trouble. unless enforcement is REALLY good. But yes, that's a lot better than us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c803jdjv0ldo

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... same goes for the very nice pewter one I got mum. it's a bit chunky. she's not using it in a book.

@nprofile1q... yes they do