I do seem to recall that getting lost was a feature of my visit. I have mixed feelings about Brutalism; when done well, it is definitely *doing* something, which I have to respect.

The general dystopian air of the whole thing really struck me the one time I went there.

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This is really cool. I just wish they could do a similar one for the Achaemenid Empire, which would be more useful to me right now! 😉

Those are amazing!

They could name the research vessels silly names! Compete with each other over who does a better job with the trains! Get people to actually like them; many of them seem to really want people to like them.

(I mean, I would also find it fun to build literal triremes, but…)

This could even be fun for them! If I was part of the 0.01%, I would find this fun.

So that’s how, when I came back to Lettuce Knit the next time, the owner said, “You know, people keep asking about that shawl. If you wrote up the pattern, I could sell a lot of them.” And I did, and she did!

that I’d made it with ONLY ONE SKEIN of this hot new yarn. Someone caught a picture of the reaction: the person who asked about the shawl holding onto on end of it at staring at me in disbelief, and me laughing my head off. It was a really great picture, and it ended up on the blog, of course.

to my local yarn shop (Lettuce Knit in Kensington Market, sadly no longer with us), and I wore this shawl just for fun. It turned out that a popular knitting blogger was having her birthday party at the shop that day, and the place was packed. Someone admired my shawl, and I explained proudly …

My fun story about how this happened to me:

I knit myself a shawl to wear to my best friend’s wedding. I used a single skein of a fancy new silk yarn that I had been gifted by my mother. I couldn’t find a suitable pattern, so I made something up.

Some time after the wedding, I was going out …