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Helen T

Helen T

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I am still working on my bookshelf, my interests are economics/business, gardening, nature, exercise & nutrition, travel, dogs, landscaping, hiking, Autism. I like non-fiction and selected fiction.
  • Pender Island, BC, Canada
  • member since October 11, 2009

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I hope your Christmas went well and that you have a Happy New Year. Looking at the East Coast weather, it's definitely a time for staying indoors, reading, knitting and enjoying a cup of tea! +24c in Riyadh, so it's a little different! I'm due in Chicago and Fort Worth next week, hence I'll be seeing the flip-side! I look like having around a couple of weeks in England during January. At least I'll be able to change my books over. I've ordered a few books whilst I've been away and I'm looking forward to picking those up. Yesterday I was listening on Librivox to Mary Grant Bruce's A LITTLE BUSH MAID. It's a book from my Mother's childhood and I well remember it on her shelves from when I was a child.
    Have a Happy New Year.
    Regards, Michael.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Have you ever tried socks, Helen? The book KNIT. SOCK. LOVE. by Cookie A. caught my eye today! Here's a link

    http://wendyknits.net/

    I'm reading MR FITZWILLIAM DARCY - THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. I'm not usually one for potboiler 'sequels' of the Classics, however the concept of what would have happened if Elizabeth had consented to marry Darcy on her being asked for the first time, intrigued me.....

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Seriously! You HAVE to read MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND! Here's the opening chapter:

    http://helensimonson.com/helen_simonson_excerpt/major_pettigrew_last_stand.pdf

    I WAS tempted to post it complete! It's ok, Helen Simonson and her publishers have ok'd the free publication of this chapter!

    Regards, Michael.

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I was reading the review of THE NIGHT BOOKMOBILE this evening.

    Audrey Niffenegger, the New York Times bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry , has crafted her first graphic novel after the success of her two critically acclaimed “novels-in-pictures .” First serialized as a weekly column in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing library on wheels that contains every book she has ever read. Seeing her history and most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. But her search turns into an obsession, as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and memories.   The Night Bookmobile is a haunting tale of both transcendence and the passion for books, and features the evocative full-color pen-and-ink work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers.

    The concept of seeing on the shelves, all the books you ever read, both intrigues and frightens me.......

    Yourself?

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Hello Helen. I presume knitting in Florida, you'll be using cotton? Here's the Rowan website for a browse

    http://www.knitrowan.com/

    Kim Hagreaves Collection (search on Shelfari for it) is one of my favourite designers, however I have lots of others. I was in a Loros Charity Shop in Leicester today that had a couple of good knitting books. They don't appear now in charity shops, however back in the nineties they were common.

    This is a painting of the Prince of Wales that is kept in the National Portrait Gallery. http://media.wendyknits.net/images/princeofwales.jpg

    Do you like Fair Isle?

    The weather is ridiculous in the Peak District this evening! Cold, grey, drizzly and everything damp. I want to know whatever happened to Indian Summers?

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    This is where I established my Base in Varna: http://www.gingercoffee.bg/index.php?lang=en

    Comfortable armchairs, good coffee, the Net! Home from Home!

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I envy you the British Columbia trees (Florida and trees............. Spanish Moss?). Before I return to work in early November, I hope to get down to Westonbirt and see how the acers are changing colour.

    http://www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt

    I think Maples are Acers (all Maples are Acers, however not all Acers are Maples............ True? You're Canadian! You should know!). When visiting Westonbirt, I love to walk amongst the redwoods there. Planted in the 1860's or so, it's like walking through the pillars of a cathedral..........

    Whilst in Varna, I was browzing in one of the bookshops that had a few (a very few!) English books. I saw a copy of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA and it having been many years since I last read it, bought it on a whim. Anthony Hope is such a hoot! He must have been laughing all the time whilst writing!

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    You must know Vancouver and Victoria quite well. I always think it's quite surreal seeing such large cities among incredible natural scenery. I presume you have watched/read SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS? Probably compulsory watching if you live near the San Juan Straits! Though Florida has beauty, both natural and man-made if you escapes the suburbs of Orlando etc. Look at Key West or Seaside - I like the Brooke's book SEASIDE. An interesting experiment - where on earth do people who live there, work??????!!!!!!!!
    I'm in Varna on neither work or nor holiday. My daughter, Victoria, is here for five days on a Social Work Family Adoption assessment and asked if I would come with her for company. Hence, I'm just pottering. Spent yesterday in the Varna Park, looking at trees and browsing in the Natural History Museum - literally hundreds of different trees!
    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Actually, thinking about that man/dog/Whitehall it was Gary Lundgren

    woodenboat.com/showthread.php?74172-Inside-Passage-to-Alaska...by-oar-and-sail

    That partial link should go in the right direction anyway!

    I wonder if like knitting patterns on gainsays, patterns on ethnic socks mean anything?

    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I'm in Varna on the Black Sea just now. On a lot of the street corners, you see elderly ladies selling knitted socks and garments. Some of these are quite ethnic and remind me of JEAN MOSS'S BOOK OF WORLD KNITS, others are more utilitarian. I saw a knitted undergarment that could have let from a Woman's Weekly of 1940 and The Blitz! Bulgaria I'd of course quite poor and Winter is rushing on apace - yesterday was only +5c! Turning the heel on a sock is always an exciting moment whilst knitting! Nearish to where I live in England is a village named Ruddington that has a 'knitting' museum. In the 17/1800's it was a centre of out-weavers using a machine similar to a French Knitting set-up that produced tubular knitted hose; turning the heel on these must have been an art! North of me is the home of Rowan, one of the few remaining quality knitting wool producers. It goes from hand to mouth but manages to hang on. I like their books.
    If you look on Google Images for Bill Teplow, you can see him in his Whitehall (complete with dog!) on the Inside Passage. Usually. I would send a link, however I'm writing this on an iPad and only seem to have about 20% Success Rate so far with such things! that looks like an interesting way to approach such a long journey - however nothing could save it from being an incredibly hard, long, wet trip. Your scenery is magnificent though! Does it really "Rain nine months of the year in Settle"?
    Do you have a favourite book of knitting designs? I do; I'll name it in another post.
    Regards, Michael

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I don't think any of us ever stop working on our bookshelves........

    When I noticed where you live and your interest in Kayak Navigation, I remembered the Ashenfelter book ROW TO ALASKA BY WIND AND OAR - though even when that was written in the 1980's the Inside Passage seemed to have a lot of people in it! I guess the AT seems to have gone the same way.......

    Regards, Michael

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  • Jackie L

    Jackie L says

    I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN...

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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