tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51210862011-04-22T08:29:15.959+10:00The Knitting NaturalistA rambling commentary on my two favourite topics - knitting & being a botanist.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1091512748295220122004-08-03T15:54:00.000+10:002004-08-03T15:59:08.296+10:00Well, folks I have moved the blog to a nicer venue.
I invite you all to run to
http://www.knitting-and.com/knittingnaturalist/
& watch the action.
Regards
PeterPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1088763137322452452004-07-02T20:02:00.000+10:002004-07-02T20:12:17.323+10:00Oh, what a disappoointment. I almost finished my brown vest. I'm in the final cm to the shoulders, then 3-needle cast off & the edgings.
The exam paper run involved more of my time than orignally hinted at. This isn't an issue, because we were given a lovely compliment that we had been one of the best teams they had had in a long time. I also had the lovely accolades from the various room Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1086487713115160962004-06-06T11:54:00.000+10:002004-06-06T12:08:33.116+10:00 UFO Month
June is going to be UFO month. There are just enough calico bags in my knitting hamper to make me realise there are just TOO many UFOs & not enough FOs in my life.
So far, I have been good at finishing, rather than starting new projects, this year. I have made 3 animal blankets for one of the major animal shelters in Sydney - & seen some stash & odd balls disappear out of my Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1086051026858867072004-06-01T10:37:00.000+10:002004-06-01T10:50:26.856+10:00Hmm- I like the new format in Blogger. Does this mean I might write a little more? - probably not!!
So - why am I blogging & not marking those last 9 hideous 1st year prac reports?? Avoidance, of course.
Anyway, after so much down time, I am happy to announce an FO - a test pattern shawl for Myrna Stahman, so please don't ask for pics. There aren't any. It must have fitted my mum, because Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1077065900440968562004-02-18T10:58:00.000+10:002004-02-18T11:00:55.966+10:00Beadwork Update
Altho yesterday I mentioned my continued workout on the chair cover, last night we had a strong cool wind billowing thru the house. I needed a slight mental challenge - particularly as Tues nights has nothing on the Box, so it's just the radio for me. I dug out "Beadwork" & did over 4 rows (0.5 cm). It felt soo good to get into a wool project & to be playing with a cable needle &Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1076997576950083342004-02-17T15:59:00.000+10:002004-02-17T16:02:11.856+10:00The Chair Cover
Can you believe that I've been working continuously on this item for over 1 1/2months now?? I know I'm stunned. I have to confess tho, that I played with some new yarn over the weekend. I dented my diet. Since July last year, I have bought 2 projects worth of yarn & received 2 Knitting projects from wonderful knitters overseas, who for some reason had given up on them & I so Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1074479030248412672004-01-19T12:23:00.000+10:002004-01-19T12:25:46.216+10:00The Gods are being kind to me today. I have just won Debbie Bliss's Traditional Knitting & I didn't pay $150 -$250US for it. Hoorah!!! This is a wonderful book full of exquisite FairIsles & Arans. The models aren't all sticks - 3 of them are delightful elderly folk & the colour combos are well matched & the yarns are easily interchangable.
I also found a Knitting design book in a remaindered Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1073972913386875162004-01-13T15:48:00.000+10:002004-01-13T15:50:21.326+10:00Although I reckon my totem animal is a wombat, I do have Frog in my cusp. I wasn't happy about the way the cotton chair covers were developing. The design had lots of twisted stitches from some of Barbara Walker's treasuries & altho very attractive, the cotton was too soft & they looked wrong. So frog, I did - COMPLETELY!!
Basic knit-purl was what was needed. So, back to the stitch Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1073626996797432452004-01-09T15:43:00.000+10:002004-01-09T15:44:59.530+10:00Goodness me!! 3 posts in one week.
Yesterday, Mary-Helen, Sandra & I made an expedition to Penrith at the base of the Blue Mountains. The train trip is just under 1 hr from the city heart.
Both journeys were quick because we laughed, commented & pointed out the window, thus making it a seamless trip.
Our chief aims were Spotlight - a large Homewares chain & The Wool Inn - one of the bestPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1073347385465418612004-01-06T10:03:00.000+10:002004-01-06T10:04:44.436+10:00Happy Happy Dance
My copy of Alice Starmore's Celtic Collection & Fisherman's Sweaters arrived in the post yesterday. Thanks, Lolly!! I have been swimming in this knitting porn ever since. Love the designs, especially in FS, & now wanna go out & buy hundreds of dollars worth of yarn & an AirCon system so that I can start straight away.
I understand why folks have knitted Inishmore - that Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1073273272182512702004-01-05T13:27:00.000+10:002004-01-05T13:32:00.543+10:00Sydney is often a hot & humid place in summer: this Christmas has been no acception. My wool WIPs are all happily packed away in my Hamper & my cotton ones dragged out from self-same box.
So what am I working on.
1. a silk/cotton vest for me in a lovely green from Rowan Summer Tweed. The body is in the round & I will do a V-neck. Is there enough to complete it?? That's the excitement of Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1069636155719167482003-11-24T11:09:00.000+10:002003-11-24T11:09:57.046+10:00There is lots happening in my life at the moment - great & so-so - which means I haven't had much time for blogging.
Firstly, the trip out to back of Bourke was a success & we found all of our little beasties. The new pennywort was found in cracks in a natural dam (a hole in the granite outcrop); the desert flannel flower was happily growing amongst the spinifex grass (ouch) on the red sand Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1065657274331453402003-10-09T09:54:00.000+10:002003-10-09T09:54:34.536+10:00Well, obviously I didn't get to post before I ran away to the New England Tablelands for the long weekend.
The weather was poor - intermittent rain & on the cold side (down to 7oC) & always overcast. I felt sorry for the motorbikers but hey! they chose to do it.
The weed picking was average to good & I was successful in relocating a rare Grevillea species which is reproducing via suckers & Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1064878372488093652003-09-30T09:32:00.000+10:002003-09-30T09:32:52.210+10:00Hi everyone.
Remember me?? I used to irratically post on this blog. Recently, I have wanted to post, but the virus which devastated the NSW public service computer network, stopped me from doing so.
The die is cast; the steek was cut...
Yes! my first steek worked & I'm happy with the results. For those thinking of trying the crochet steek method, (cos, like me, they are completely inept Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1063174491777130802003-09-10T16:14:00.000+10:002003-09-10T16:18:37.916+10:00I'm at that Hurry up! stage on the Aran vest for Mary-Helen. I thought I was up to the shoulders but found I am something like 6 cm away. Not much, but just enough to make me go GRRR!!!
I went to work to study my PhD on Sunday, & on the bus home, found an error in the cabling on my brown vest, so Mon night was spent fixing things up.
Tues - we had Honourary Associate talks all day - studentPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1063173746909515742003-09-10T16:02:00.000+10:002003-09-10T16:02:26.806+10:00Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1062484894953418302003-09-02T16:41:00.000+10:002003-09-02T16:41:34.850+10:00Knitting Update
This past week or so has been a steep, but rapid learning curve. I set my first set of steeks in an Aran vest & after reading posts on Knitting Beyond the Hebrides, mastered two-stranded knitting. The pinnacle was reached on Sun, when I did 2 rows (as called for) of 3 coloured stranding. Not that difficult, just applied the same ideas as for 2, but had to do purl stitches as Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1061878843462340952003-08-26T16:20:00.000+10:002003-08-26T16:20:43.466+10:00KnitDweebs
Mar asked if the dumbing down of knitting originated in the US & then spread it's octopus tenticles across the planet. Yes, sort of - but it's more complex than that.
The positive aspect is the US, then Britain & the Continent kept knitting alive thru the 90's. During this period in Australia, there were virtually no new booklets created. I still see booklets that I purchased Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1060235678384746022003-08-07T15:54:00.000+10:002003-08-07T15:56:56.080+10:00Sadly, I have little knitting content.
I have been working extra shifts at the Bald Man's Brassiere - especially nightwork -which is eating into my knitting time. No probs cos it pays off bills & the remnant can go to the next yarn/book spending spree.
I have even been creative - I mean productive on the ol' thesis. I'm in the throes of constructing a character matrix to run a statistical Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1059980645505326152003-08-04T17:04:00.000+10:002003-08-04T17:09:39.706+10:00Last week was a challenge, shall we say.
Since Bendigo, I haven't been very motivated on working on my thesis. Today, I did do some writing, so I'm hoping I'm ending the Thesis doldrums for the time being.
I also attended our librarians father's funeral. Miguel is a great friend & I had met his dad one Easter & subsequent visits. It meant a hell of a lot to Miguel to see a small contingent Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1059459847330875712003-07-29T16:24:00.000+10:002003-07-29T16:24:07.280+10:00Why is it that IT people are lovely at the 1-to-1 level but useless when you have a group around a mainframe computer. For the past week I haven't been able to speak to the outside world using my normal email addie, making all kinds of dramas for me. One being not able to add to this blog.
I have lots to tell, but will keep this message short & try to add bits over time. Most importantly you Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1058254520053608052003-07-15T17:35:00.000+10:002003-07-15T17:37:43.900+10:00Bendigo SEX trip
Monica, Leigh & myself are off to the Bendigo Sheep & Wool festival. Tomorrow Mon & I zoom down to Canberra & stay with Leigh & meet the local spinner crowd. Then Thurs morn it's off to Bendigo some 600 km away. Sadly no direct way but we will visit some old fav countryside of mine. It will also give me an idea of where to visit for my botanical junket (4 days) in late Sept.
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1057535671452442692003-07-07T09:54:00.000+10:002003-07-07T09:54:31.263+10:00Well, have some knitting progress, but pretty much everything else is "as before".
James' jumper is close to completion. One sleeve is done & the 2nd sleeve has finished being decreased & in less than 12 rows will start the ribbing. Once the sleeve is finished, it's picking up the stitches for the neck ribbing & it's all done bar for the darning in. My mate, Elizabeth is back from her weed Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1056690533198849812003-06-27T15:08:00.000+10:002003-06-27T15:08:53.220+10:00Well, so far, so good. :-))
The day on the farm was lots of fun - lots of thistle seedlings removed, as well as 2 huge patches of stinging nettles & all plum, pear & apple trees pruned. Yummo food & just a lovely day overall. The trip down, by train, was a bit of a nightmare cos of train disruptions & although I would love to do the commute thing every day, the thought of two trains each way, Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-1056681774806740872003-06-27T12:42:00.000+10:002003-06-27T12:42:54.710+10:00I have just been moved to the New, Improved, extra cleaning power blogger interface, so this is a preamble before the next post.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-953080632003-06-05T10:55:00.000+10:002003-06-05T10:57:21.000+10:00This weekend is the Queen's Birthday long weekend (it's any other month but June) & I plan to spend a day at my friend's little farm about 50-60 mls out of Sydney towards Canberra.
Barbara (a work colleague) & Rex have 5 acres & have 4 horses, 2 dogs, 2 cats & some hens. I will catch the train with them on Fri night & James will pick me up Sat evening on the motorbike. We always do "farm" thingsPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-951459732003-06-01T17:34:00.000+10:002003-06-01T17:34:17.970+10:00I have been laid up with a nasty cold thing that is doing the rounds in Sydney at the moment. Fellow knit friends - Mary-Helen & Sandra have been hit by it, along with James. It's fun sharing sniffles, isn't it!
The past 2 weeks have been exciting in that my books from Schoolhouse Press & Yarns International arrived. I'm now the proud owner of all 4 Walker Treasuries, 3 German stitch books (I Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-947231252003-05-22T15:27:00.000+10:002003-05-22T15:27:30.336+10:00Kitty Kapers
James has always been a cat person: I've always been a doggy guy. Deep down, I'm a naturalist that has a great affinity with all life. Last Oct, Aby (James' 10 yr old black cat) died of kidney failure. I was houseminding whilst James was on a week's holiday; it was a horrible morning & culminated in me knocking his motorbike over (he came home a day earlier) when I drove the car Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-946097932003-05-20T11:46:00.000+10:002003-05-20T11:50:47.000+10:00Knitting bags look forlorn when they are all saggy & empty. They feel like Puff the Magic Dragon & just plain forgotten. So, I had to fill it, didn't I. I mean, they do me such great service as protectors of the mighty fibre arts, so it was the least I could do.
A creamy Aran looking yarn - Bendigo again dk (8ply) - from their Nov sale last year. I hope to do an Aran vest for a friend of mine,Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-945588942003-05-19T12:14:00.000+10:002003-05-19T12:16:32.000+10:00Pics
I bet that's got you going. Well it has happened - I have pics, finally.
Here is the url:
www.picturetrail.com/dillwynia
& look under Ropes & Ladders Gansey.
This took me about 6 months to complete over a particularly hot & long summer. I even tried the tray on the lap but it was truely horrendous & I gave up & did more cotton knitting. I had to treat this garment as a priority Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-941694842003-05-12T09:12:00.000+10:002003-05-12T09:12:44.616+10:00Sorry for being so slack - over a week since last entry. This is bad form cos of what all that happened last week. Escaped cat becomes seriously injured cat; birthday; progress on knitting & thesis.
So let's start with the weekend at least:-) Went to my knitting club on Sat which is always loud & fun. Since the previous Mon I have been working on a blue bub's blanket which has been on the Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-935620132003-05-01T09:54:00.000+10:002003-05-01T09:54:39.563+10:00Thesis Blues
I got feedback from my two supervisors yesterday. I met my Uni one last night & I have a 11am meeting with my Gardens one today. Both are good friends & were brutially honest. Son, you know how to write, so there's only minor changes there, but this thing is WAY TOO short.
I had written an introduction for a scientific paper & not for a doctoral thesis. So, back to padding the Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-934524662003-04-29T17:37:00.000+10:002003-04-29T17:41:36.000+10:00I had hoped to give a Fri 25th Apr entry, but my thesis got in the way - I completed Chapter 1 & part of a later chapter - hoorah! hoorah! The weather was also poopy - overcast & drizzly, so no pix of the house etc.
Tonight I will finish the coffee gansey & will post a pic of that. It took me 6 months - thru a very hot summer - so I'm pleased with the time. Not a Wendy speed, but there is no Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-931496532003-04-24T11:58:00.000+10:002003-04-24T11:58:27.893+10:00Lake Tickenleechee
Yes, Smiths Lake lived up to its name. I also nicked it Camp Grenada cos it rained every day. Thurs was an absolute pain with heavy traffic & rainfall, reducing the visibility to 3-5 yds in front yucko. The 4 hr drive turned into an 8 hr one. Some days had 1 or 2 showers throughout the day, but most of the days had heavy falls thru-out. I didn't collect any leeches, but I Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-926246142003-04-15T12:55:00.000+10:002003-04-15T12:55:13.436+10:00A bag of Happy
Alison of Blueblog fame used this term for her knitting away bag & I really love it. This Easter sees me travelling some 275 km north of Sydney to Smiths Lake, not far from Forster & just inland from Seal Rocks. I teach a 3rd year uni course called Advanced Field Techniques. I deal with the Botany component. We go to some sand mining & fire sites in the morning; do a transect thruPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-922743232003-04-09T16:22:00.000+10:002003-04-09T16:22:51.653+10:00Progress on the mauve toddler's jumper is excellent. One sleeve finished & 1/4 of the way up the 2nd. But it's bleedingly obvious that I will need one more 50g ball to complete it. When I buy yarn, I always buy extra: 1-2 balls extra. This is mostly due to my hording the thing for a few years & I know when I get around to working on that project, that definitely the dyelot is long used up or evenPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-920770092003-04-06T16:35:00.000+10:002003-04-06T16:41:07.000+10:00I thought I might copy Sarah Bradberry's blog in doing my Knitter's Pro Profile
Specialty
Jumpers - Aran & textured, Men & Women's; Blankets; Lacework
Books
None so far, but I'm keen on being involved with writing a Men's pattern book. Men's fashions written by Men
Contact Information:
Here will do.
Favorite knitting reference:
Actually more than 1.
Nancy Thomas' books; Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-918926432003-04-03T14:56:00.000+10:002003-04-03T14:56:46.280+10:00Oh, how I love the monthly staff meeting. It's held on the 1st Wed of the month at 2pm. I rush up to the seminar room - bucket of jasmine tea in one hand (the mug holds about 200ml) & a knitting project in the other. I often take a window seat which allows me to spread along the sill, row counter, pattern, notes. Then off I go.
I've started a knitting/craft craze as a result. Yesterday there Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-918075322003-04-02T11:06:00.000+10:002003-04-02T12:46:09.000+10:00Pretty Piccys
If Allah & Fate are kind, this should send you to my Photo Album containing pics that I took last night on our living room floor. The URL is http://www.picturetrail.com/dillwynia
look under knitting pics.
The 1st two are of my friend Damien's gansey. He moved down from Brisbane roughly a year ago & has an appalling jumper selection. He wanted a v-neck, plain lower part & Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-917409582003-04-01T10:10:00.000+10:002003-04-01T10:10:32.716+10:00Good news to my adoring fans - big sweep of opera cloak.
Tonight, I will take some pics of my 3 most active current WIPs & add a link, so that you can see them. It's only fair & it will make a much more interesting blog.
Progress was made on the 2nd sleeve of the coffee gansey. I have almost finished the patterning of the sleeve cap & onto the plain body section. Both diamond gussets are Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-914552662003-03-27T13:39:00.000+10:002003-03-27T13:39:33.466+10:00The Knitting Naturalist
I've Been Collared
OK- enough of the bad puns. :-) Last night I did 3 needle cast off, without a crotchet hook. It worked & I'm pleased with the results. I've always feared I would fumble around & lose stitches when having 2 needles aligned & in one hand. I think using circulars helped. The pattern then made me pick up the neck stitches & start creating a collar. Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-913868722003-03-26T13:17:00.000+10:002003-03-26T13:17:07.216+10:00The Knitting Naturalist
OFF THE CUFF
That's right. Last night, whilst listening to a piano recital on the radio, I got down & completed the 1st sleeve. Now I need to pick up the stitches for the other sleeve. I will have to concentrate a little in order to match the twist in the cables.
However, tonight, it will be 3 needle cast off. I have been making a toddler ribbed jumper for a friend Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-912592042003-03-24T14:22:00.000+10:002003-03-24T14:22:02.233+10:00So - where have I been?? Well, Fri sees me scrubbing dishes for an inner city bistro in a pub. It's very hectic but it pays my bills & doesn't make me think about botany for a few hours.
Sat had been being *very* domestic and in the early afternoon it was off to my fortnightly (every 2nd week for my US readers) meeting of SSK - Sydney Sity Klickers. It's a group that Mary-Helen (MH) & I Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-910274592003-03-20T11:31:00.000+10:002003-03-20T11:31:03.746+10:00Oh, my goodness!! At least the Tagboard is now working. I have to give a huge Thank You, to Antonio of Knitknuts, who so very kindly fixed this up for me. I was adding the thing where it should be, but Nope! it ignored working for me.
Others that have been very supportive of me are: Wendy Knits, QueerJoe, Claudia of Claudia SpinsnKnitsblog, Alison of The Blue Blog & Leigh from NiddyNoddy. What aPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-906178992003-03-13T10:23:00.000+10:002003-03-13T10:23:15.500+10:00So - what has Nanna been up to?? Working his little butt off, basically. I currently juggle 3 jobs. I do a 2 day job at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney as assistant botanist. I do 2 shifts in a little bistro attached to a trendy pub & the rest of the time it's my long suffering PhD.
I went thru a yukko period last year - mild depression which happily manifested itself as procrastination & Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-902227152003-03-06T16:03:00.000+10:002003-03-06T16:05:50.000+10:00I'm still being a dill in getting things off the ground. God!! I hate being a bit thick when it comes to web stuff. Oh, well, once it's up & complete, I will be complaining about something else. hehe.
Had the pleasure of the frog pond yesterday. I'm currently making a gansey out of 100% merino from Bendigo woollen mills - a very cheap yarn store for those in the US - in a coffee tweedy yarn Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5121086.post-900283752003-03-03T13:18:00.000+10:002003-03-03T15:19:19.000+10:00The start of an interesting blog, I hope. The is no interesting pic of myself, of course. Yesterday, my partner James had to do some of his camera course assignments. He is currently doing a Landscape course at the Australian College of Photography & with the hot, harsh sunny days we have been experiencing over the past few months, it hasn't been possible to complete the assignments.
YesterdayPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13450965796462340864noreply@blogger.com