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Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

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UK Yarnies Connect

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Please come and join our community. I've set up a Mighty Networks framework where we can collaborate, inspire each other, talk through issues like international sales, pricing, marketing and work together, because life is better that way!
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A tabby cat asleep on a sofa on her back, with her legs drooping off the edge and her front paws held up as if she’s boxing.

Mood.

Do you sometimes come across a book that sings to you as you read it? It hasn’t happened to me since I read Great Circle a few years ago. Now it’s happening again with Enlightenment by Sarah Perry. It’s magical.

I love dyeing Willo-the-Wisp Lace. Silk and mohair take dye with such intensity, I keep having to stop to drink it in (not literally - don't drink the dye water, kids). It's the same when I'm knitting with it, which adds time to my knitting, but gives me much joy.
#knittingthreads #crochetthreads

I've got some new custom blended fibre in stock. This is Kite Flying - a blend of Corriedale, Merino and mulberry silk. It's the most uplifting colour to spin - pops of pink silk really stand out from the rich turquoise. I absolutely love it.

I had to cancel my stand and workshop at the Big Flock (which I am VERY sad about) thanks to a nasty dose of ocular shingles. I do not recommend. Good luck everyone, especially @birdstreetuk, who have worked so very hard to bring this into being. You guys are amazing.

I went early eanough to get antivirals but they just stop it progressing as far, rather than curing it. Which I am very thankful for as it is agony.

I have mostly spent this week sleeping and saying ‘ow, my face’. It’s not been super fun.

For an update on my week, google ‘ocular shingles’.

Today’s perfect, magical song is Learn to Swim Part II by Joshua Idehen. Trust me.

The Merida Cardigan.

I honestly thought that you’d somehow got into my house and taken a photo of my cat.

A photograph of colourful yarn, largely covered by a text box, which says 'We are exhibiting at Wonderwool Wales 26th and 27th April, Royal Welsh Showground. Come along and join us for a wonderful woolly weekend. www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk'.

It's only a few more weeks until #wonderwoolwales! I'm very excited to be exhibiting, and I'll be on stand N2 and I'll be bringing lots and lots of fibre with me, as well as sweater quantities of my #superherodk, #toastyaran and #rollingstonesock.

Come and say hello!

I know my hrt has stopped working because I am filled with unexplainable rage (in addition to the entirely explainable rage) and today I forgot the words for sieve and middleman. Also I have a twitchy eye, leg cramps and an itchy face. Also, I do not want to knit.

My cat is a graceful and elegant creature but when she walks downstairs she looks like a sack of potatoes rolling down a hill.

Urgh! It is awful isn’t it???

It’s been a day. Went from ‘I’m really good at what I do and I am kicking arse’ to ‘I am a charlatan and should be excluded from all yarn-based things for the rest of eternity’ in the space of 3 hours. Still reeling from the whiplash.

A composite image showing some hand-dyed fibre in purples and bright jewel blues, set next to images of blue and purple hummingbirds.

New colourway alert! This is Hummingbird – a rich mix of royal purple, turquoise, peacock blue and deep petrol blue – dyed onto my Polwarth/Shetland/Silk blend. I love dyeing jewel tones onto this base, because it takes dye so very beautifully, and with such depth of shade. It's quite captivating.

Sad sock alert! Alas, my very special Roseraie socks, which I designed and knitted in my lovely NON-SUPERWASH #RollingStone sock yarn, made it into the laundry basket this week. Their adventure in the washing machine (30 degrees) and tumble dryer, has left them feeling a little shrunken. 😭

Ack, no! Worse! I’d still have to get the ball winder out but I’d be adding additional thought processes to an already fraught situation.

ADHD is getting in the way of my knitting mojo because the thought of getting out my swift and ball winder is utterly exhausting and all my yarn is in hanks.

Is Mum Does the Washing the best song I’ve heard this year? Yes. Yes it is.

Towering achievement for today: successfully identified teatime themetime links on 6 music Radmac, AND got the variant B. It can only go downhill from here.

How to chose the most objectionable? Mr Collins just about pips it.

A smiling grey haired woman sits next to an outdoor pool.

I’ve taken the day off today to spend the morning at Bristol Lido with my lovely husband. It’s absolute bliss and the food is always spectacular. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Way too many hills also.

Tregaron’s Daughter i was obsessed with this as a teenager. Mayhem, mystery, italian counts, brooding heroes, peril!