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Dr Lilon Bandler
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Pressed 🌺 flowers cowl
So ... a steep learning curve for me! Had to learn about provisional cast-on, m1r and m1l AND mosaic knitting.
Then ... having made good progress - realised I'd mucked up about 20 rows ago!
Frogged it 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
Started again
Better edges and make1s
And good progress.
This is what I frogged. 😱 Lot of work to let go of - but I learnt a lot! Work is triangular; main colour dark blue, with pink contrast for mosaic pattern and for flower motif Started again Doing a lot of counting!!!! Triangular not obvious yet; main colour dark blue, with pink contrast for mosaic pattern and for flower motif
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The Fisherrow Fishermen created by stonemason Gardner Molloy - act as bollards keeping coastal promenade safe for pedestrians and cyclists.
Two stone boulders as bollards. The top halves are sculpted as fishermen (head and shoulders)
October 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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#blue
#ShowMeYourKnitting
My first toe up socks made a year ago
Hand-dyed yarn and dye still bleeds when washed. But a beautiful shade, so worth it.
Sock number 1; toe up 8 ply hand-dyed blue blue Finished first sock toe up in hand dyed blue 8 ply My first successful casting on for toe up socks - so I took pictures as I went to remember what the steps were
July 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Triangles of garter
#ShowMeYourKnits
Baby blanket ... finished about 1 month ago
Alternating stocking and garter triangles
Striped blanket in forest green, sienna brown and pale green; knitted with alternating garter and stocking triangles for texture Finch; 10ply; cotton Pattern Triss Baby Blanket by Agnieszka Wojtkowiak
June 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Careful.
Flights avoiding Iran in order to land in Dubai - going over Saudi Arabia instead
June 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits in yellow
Think warm.
Plain mustard yellow socks, knitted toe up in 10ply yarn. With fold over ribbed cuff in deep (almost black) navy Toe up partially completed plain sock in mustard yellow 10 ply
June 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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72% counted Ali France on 58% and a winner of Dickson
May 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Hullo #BrokenHill
☀️35⁰C at 19:00
View across a wide first floor wooden verandah. There is iron lacework around the edge, and little bits of it at each upright. The roof is corrugated iron. There are long shadows cast by the lacework because it is very late afternoon. (I love these shadows.) Beyond the verandah is the wide street below, and across the road is a pub, and a Honda dealer. The sky beyond that is pale blue - without a single cloud.
February 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Close up of the heel (gusset and heel flap). The heel has a little extra padding. And the gusset has a nice triangular pattern thanks to the decrease from the heel. In other words a neat-looking and comfortable-feeling heel and sock! So proud!!
January 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Hand knitted socks, made by me! They are randomly striped (the yarn was randomly dyed). The yarn is silk and nylon and wool combined. I bought it in Glasgow last year! The colours include purple and yellow and dark blue and orange and grey - all melding together to make a speckledly pattern. They fit my feet perfectly. For the knitters: 4 ply yarn on double point needles, cuff down, Finchley graft to finish.
January 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#WhatAnimalIsThis
Outside, at night about 4cm long
A small animal/insect - green. About 4cm long
January 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Not crazy.
What's needed.

But it would take courage and a moral compass.
Pale skeleton - head, torso, arms and hands, with black round eye, nose and mouth sockets. The pose is of the skeleton shrugging their shoulders.
January 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A failed state?
Unable to sustain democracy.
Unable to take care of much of its population.
Ruled by and for a very wealthy few.
Or ... too big to "fail"?
Pale skeleton - head, torso, arms and hands, with black round eye, nose and mouth sockets. The pose is of the skeleton shrugging their shoulders.
January 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Sydney
Screenshot of local temperature in Sydney. Currently 32⁰C with completely unnecessary description of "sunny". Low temp will be 19⁰C. We're lucky here - it very rarely snows (if ever). And doesn't get as 🥵 hot as further north and west.
January 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Pressure is up!
We're ready to go.
Home-sized espresso machine. Bean grinder behind it. Pressure gauge is up - green light is on. Good to go!
January 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Best EndOfYear 🎁 present!
Photo of a white mug with black handle and black inside. It says "I ❤️ (red heart) my HREC", which stands for Human Research Ethics Committee. On the other side it has the dates of the 2025 meetings!!! One a month February to November. No excuses for forgetting a meeting now!!
December 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Broken Hill 42⁰ at 16:00
View across wide wooden verandah with beautiful ironwork lace around the edge. Looking out at the pub across the road - also with a wide area of outside pavement shaded by overhanging roof. Blue blue sky beyond with a few bits of very white cloud.
December 15, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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Liberal frontbencher and former minister to resign. Headline in Sydney Morning Herald 10Dec2024
December 10, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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And let's just pause, as we congratulate, and remember and reflect on Australia's vilification and exclusion of Peter Norman.
1968 Olympics - the Human Rights salute (as Smith termed it) by Tommie Smith (centre - gold) and John Carlos (right - third). Norman (left - second) stands in solidarity with them. They are wearing his black gloves (Smith the right hand one and Carlos the left). Both men were pall bearers at Norman's funeral.
December 8, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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On my way to breakfast out!
View from passenger seat in car, dawn with bright sun on horizon which silhouettes the leafless trees. Beautiful streaky clouds highlighted with light of the sun.
November 14, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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For The Kelpies. Never sick of seeing them.
Huge beautiful graceful horse head metal sculpture. Huge horse head metal sculpture behind person rugged up (coat, scarf) for 4⁰C temp. Huge metal sculpture of horse heads (30m) dwarfing people in foreground.
November 14, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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Up early
Dawn scene - dark lower third with horizon and leafless tree silhouetted again a sky - light yellow at the horizon and darker up high. Cloudless.
November 14, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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How wonderful to see you again!
Lots of five pointed yellow stars of various sizes!
October 14, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Productive day! Pickling 🥒 cucumber, made stock, and 🍅 sugo. Also slice (not shown)
Today's productions: bottles of pickling brine, containers of pickled cucumbers and beans, vegetable stock, containers with 🍅 sugo/sauce.
August 30, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Yes.
Got me out in the drizzle.
🙏🏽
Streetscape - with building of red sandstone and turret, AND looming grey sky.
August 5, 2024 at 10:24 AM