| Lochalsh
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Not what I meant to be, of course.
Reply #1421. Sep 07 10, 9:12 AM
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Rowena8482 
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If there's a pair of size 5 (UK sizing) needles, can I have them please? I had ONE pair of 5s and an ex-girlfriend of Gothson's happened to them :-|
Reply #1422. Sep 07 10, 4:09 PM
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| lesley153
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There is and with pleasure! There are lots of other sizes too - what else will fill a gap? Full length needles with knobs on? little knobless ones that come in fours for knitting round things?
I'm glad you asked because I was thinking what to do with them! |
Reply #1423. Sep 07 10, 4:15 PM
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satguru
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My mother was an expert knitter and has the whole set, and with arthritis now if they haven't been donated yet are still around. I'll have to check now. I've got my grandma's sewing kit now although I do use it sometimes is mainly duplicating my own. It's a lot cheaper to shorten my own trousers since it became so expensive and have to look closely to see it's been done with my eyes closed...
Reply #1424. Sep 07 10, 4:39 PM
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garrysouders
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Not a reply to anything but I thought I would tell that I have been the chief cook and bottle washer as my wife fell on the patio three days ago and strined her thigh muscles and has had a tough time. I will tell you the truth, with her out of commission I am out of commission. She is the more important part of this team. She is making steady improvement however.
Reply #1425. Sep 08 10, 4:25 PM
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| lesley153
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Garry, you are both important. You have both had your own jobs since you've been married, and they've been different, not better or worse. So you can't cook much - but you're learning. How do you suppose Carol would have got on if you'd sent her to do your job?
I just thought - Julie has been living away at college for a year - I imagine she too has managed to feed herself, and she must have some bright ideas for feeding the three of you.
Of course I hope that Carol will mend quickly, but don't let it drag on too long. Please. |
Reply #1427. Sep 08 10, 5:32 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Hey, Lesley, ave atque vale!
I hope I don't overdo the Latin, though I know you're trained in it. It's all my mother's fault: she told me from an early age that "we [were] good in languages but not in math." There you have one of the many reasons I'm not an engineer. :)
Wish I could join in on the knitting discussion, but I have no talent in that area and "let" my daughter be the family knitter. I do nice needlepoint, though.
Deunan, beautiful hanky!
Ah, I dimly remember hanky-panky, far back in the shadowy recesses of my now-faded youth. ;-)
Reply #1428. Sep 08 10, 5:39 PM
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| lesley153
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Yoohoo Deunan - wave wave!
Yes thank you, I am delighted. It's the first time I've met "my" GP, we covered a lot of ground, and he talked to me. He explained and discussed treatment options. He didn't look down his nose and bark orders at me.
The hospital today was great fun. They monitored my pulse and blood pressure while I walked on the treadmill for three minutes at 1.7 miles an hour. That was OK and I was able to walk and natter and giggle. Then they gave me a slight incline, and another three minutes. No problems except I could feel my thigh muscles having to work for a living. Then they increased the incline - argh! I managed a couple of minutes and then said enough please. My pulse and BP were both high but were back to normal in three or four minutes, which was OK. Then I got a lecture about walking a reasonable distance every day - and NO SLACKING! **cringe**
I've been booked in for a cardiac rehabilitation programme. The topics will vary, but there will always be exercise and, best of all, there will always be a treadmill. Oh good. |
Reply #1429. Sep 08 10, 5:40 PM
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| lesley153
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Lochalsh - how odd that your post hadn't appeared when I last posted, and how odd that your mother would put you off bothering with anything that wasn't languages. My experience of people, parents or teachers, who tell children what they may or may not be good at, is that they are usually wrong. :(
Twenty-ish years ago, when we were trying to move to Bedford from a flat just outside London, I put away the dressmaking equipment and materials that had taken over the dining room, and took up knitting instead. My grandmother taught me basic knitting skills when I was about four, but I'd never made anything more ambitious than an egg cosy and - once - a pair of gloves.
This time I made a sleeveless top. It had a patterned yoke, and was to be sewn up the sides, and buttoned on the shoulders. I finished the knitting but never got round to joining the pieces. The front and back are still in a bag somewhere, together with the buttons I got for it. Anyone want a top in two parts? |
Reply #1430. Sep 08 10, 7:05 PM
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Deunan
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Lesley, a top in two parts is the fashion now...I am just kidding. You reminded me of some projects I have which remain in "almost done" status.
I'll get to them...promise...lol
Do you have to return to the doctor any time soon?
Reply #1431. Sep 09 10, 2:59 PM
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| lesley153
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I shall go back and see him if I don't stop getting attacks of gout when I stop taking the diuretics. Right now it feels like a million Lilliputians are standing on my right foot, hitting my big toe joint with pickaxes. Ouch ouch ouch.
Otherwise it's all hospital appointments. In a couple of weeks I start a cardiac rehabilitation programme, every Thursday for... ever. I think it's eight weeks but it's going to feel like for ever. Every session will be some exercise, a go on the treadmill, and a lecture on a relevant topic. Week one will be about food choices and food labelling. I can't wait (it says here).
I have an appointment in early October for an echocardiogram and then talking to a cardiologist, in Bedford, and another one in mid-October in Papworth, to meet my surgeon and tell him he's a miracle worker. I seem to remember telling him the same thing 13 years ago.
That's all! It's enough.
When I do find the unsewn top, I shall probably find that it's too small. Perhaps I can get round that by lacing the sides up? And then again, perhaps not. I shall probably get arrested. |
Reply #1432. Sep 09 10, 4:58 PM
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| Lochalsh
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After all that activity in October, I fully expect you to run away to Paris for the feuilles d'automne, perhaps with Robert Downey, Jr., perhaps with Nathan Gunn.
Who is Nathan Gunn? I'd include something from Youtube here, but I know you'd kill me if I sent you his Papageno, as seductive and delicious as it is. :)
Reply #1433. Sep 09 10, 5:33 PM
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| lesley153
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May I stick with my first choice, Mr Downey?
My first trip to Paris was wonderful. I was 16, and I was the guest of a family. I'd gone out with the son when he and his friend came to London for the summer, and my friend went out with his friend. So, when everyone else was doing the schoolchild exchange trip, I was staying with the boyfriend. (I came home after that but the other two got married and disappeared without trace.)
Subsequent trips to Paris were miserable. I was a tourist, and therefore reviled. Perhaps Mr Downey and I can go to Cascais or Valletta and watch the boats?
I am very happy to let you keep Mr Gunn. He may be seductive and delicious but not while he's singing Mozart! |
Reply #1434. Sep 09 10, 6:16 PM
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| Lochalsh
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I don't know: Nathan's pretty cute, but I know you and RD have a long-term "thang" going.
My first trip to France was on a quatorze juillet! We'd been in Burgos, Spain, where I interviewed "my" novelist, and we decided to cross to the north. I wish I could tell you about some important cultural event, but what I remember most vividly are the apricot pastries. :)
Reply #1435. Sep 09 10, 7:12 PM
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| lesley153
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| Cultural events pale into insignificance next to apricot pastries. :) |
Reply #1436. Sep 09 10, 7:22 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Apricot anything! Yumm!
Reply #1437. Sep 09 10, 7:36 PM
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| Lochalsh
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I love the word in Spanish: 'albaricoque." It's so much fun to say! (That 'al' is the Arabic definite article, btw, so I guess the fruit originates from the Arab culture.)
I'm such a pedant!
((((((((((((Lesley and Robert, Jr.))))))))))
Reply #1438. Sep 09 10, 8:38 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, did I bring your blog to a screeching halt with my pedantry? It would appear so. :(
Mea culpa, mea culpa (and that from a quasi-Unitarian).
Lochalshetta
Reply #1439. Sep 12 10, 2:33 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Left out the "maxima," but you know the routine. :)
Reply #1440. Sep 12 10, 2:34 PM
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