Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

Ok, so I know I told you that I would review Inside Crochet the next day.  I am a very naughty monkey I admit.  Instead of making a blob post I made cookies and went to a cocktail baby shower (more on that later).  I’ve got to start saying things like “in the next post” …

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Yesterday I had a chance to go with the hubby to Bath.  He was going there with a co-worker for work while I was going there to get out of the damn house.  It gets pretty…..well…… intense if I’m not able to get out the house every once in a while.  To put it simply, …

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So, still no internets at home except the sloooooooooow and rather dubious connection through the cell phone.  I sort of misunderstood the hubby in the fact that the engineer is going to be installing the LINE for us to have internet at the end of the month, but they are only going to be sending …

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You know how it seems that you are destined to learn things over and over again only to forget them?  I am so that way with getting drunk and staying up much too late and then climbing aboard a Boeing 747 for an international flight.  One of these days I’m going to cause an “international …

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When I said the other day that all of London is in mourning, there is one group that I forgot about.  The area that my husband lives in is traditionally an immigrant starting point, sort of like parts of New York city.  It is where the newest wave of immigrants lives for a generation or …

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So, one of the many things that are going to be difficult to get used to in this country is the customer service in the stores.  I’m hoping that it will be a bit different out in the country but I’m not terribly hopeful.  I did end-up going to a yarn store in London.  I’m …

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So, in case you haven’t guess where exactly I am already, this might give you a BIG hint. Yep, I’m in lovely London again.  This time, it is a last minute run in order to find a house.  The hubby got sent to Sweden rather unexpectedly thus taking up his “week to find a house” …

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Tonight was Yarn Therapy night at Infusion Tea.  God knows that I needed some sort of therapy after the day that Monday turned out to be (the cat peeing in the bag was just the straw that broke the camels back [though if that made the camel easier to comb so I could spin some …

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