Month: January 2018

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cats local history Yorkshire

At Old Willy’s One Night

    Archives were shut, yesterday, for some reason or other so I had to content myself with the Reference Library instead. Ended up spending some time in the company of  Robert Sharp; a shepherd’s son who became schoolmaster at North Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire,  from 1804 to 1842. To entertain his grown up […]

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cycling fashion Knitting

The Nature of Errata: The Apparently Cursed Edwardian Fingerless Gloves

  Errata are the bane of the designer’s life. I’m thinking about it because of the Edwardian gloves pattern which has resurfaced, and needed my attention this week just as I was hoping for a few days of no knitting. But also because, alongside writing the next book, I am fixing the errata in the […]