I have taken the dragon stitch pattern from Heike Campbell's Dancing Dragon coat - on ravelry. But I'm making a custom set in sleeve, seamed sweater. I'll probably make the coat for myself next year because it's a lovely pattern.

Me too! What porn is the BBC doing. I went on quite a mental tangent coming up with ideas like documentaries on various non-Eurocentric cultures being pornographic before finally cottoning on.

But I have heard a kindness of knitters before too.

In my world it's a tangle of knitters.

Oh yeah, i would procrastinate the heck out of that.

Mhz Choice is very good. I watch all my Nordic noir, my French dramas and dabble in German and Italian shows through it. All shows have English subtitles, and some you can watch dubbed into English if that is your preference. watch.mhzchoice.com/browse

Sending love and support!

So an excellent report card for Canada. UK, improvement needed. I am sorry for US wine producers, it must be a dreadful time for them caught up in stupid trade wars, but not sorry enough to buy US wine again.

I used to think almonds were almonds and there is no real difference. Then I had marcona almonds and discovered that not all almonds are created equal. Sounds delicious.

JVL newsletter is required reading for me.

Oh I am excited for this one!

This is Argos in the UK. Except there you can go in, browse a catalogue and then see if the warehouse in the back has the thing in the catalogue.

I kind of love it. Smile is luminous.

having to walk home after an attack took down transit in London in 2005. Last time I wore heels to the office. Have since then made sure I had flat shoes always and heels just stayed at the office. You want walkable shoes in SHTF situations.

there really can be only one racoon on crack in the duplex. Preferably none tbh, but yeah, hoping we stay sensible.