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Here are some used spinning wheels to get you started.

It’s a positively bucolic picture, Uncle B the keen gardener and Auntie Weasel the keen yarnmaker. Wait a minute don’t you have a thatched roof? Perfect.

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First you’d have to learn to card and spin. . .probably best to let it go on drifting. No doubt some bird will be glad of it for nesting material, or something. Or it could go in the compost heap, of course.

Learning to knit is easy and fun! But yeah, buy your wool yarns from someone else.

Wait a minute. Am I hallucinating? Aren’t there some past Weasel-posts about Weasel-knitted objects? Or were those OTHER people’s really odd yarn sculptures?

Yup, Can’t hark — that was stuff from other sites. I can’t knit.

If you look back far enough, you’ll find a hat my big brother knitted me.

I know people would collect every tuft and save it up to spin.

I’m not one of those people, but can’t help but admire those who are.

And here I had some nice used spinners all picked out, but Akismet snapped them up.

Sniff.

HA HA! Thanks for posting – I really like your blog!!

Common Cents
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

ps. Link Exchange??

Always happy to give links, Steve. You’ll have to wait until I get at my blogroll, though. Sooper genius that I am, I built my blogroll so it’s a total pain in the ass to get to. I can’t add to it through my WordPress dashboard, I have to go in through my Bluehost dashboard and wade through a bunch of…well, nobody wants to hear me whine.

Next time I’m in there.

Um… Dame Stoat?
Um..could I go off topic and ask you a HUGE favor? It’s draw ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!’ in a couple of days. And um… would you draw us a Zombie Mohammed? I know it’s short notice, but I want to enter it as my own on the facebook page (of the same name) hint hint. I hear they are giving prizes and I need a new camel brush.

(you can delete this if it’s really TOO stupid)

Zombie Mohammed! That’s an excellent idea, EZ! I was actually going to skip it, on account of I couldn’t come up with any good picture ideas.

I might not have enough time, dammit. I’ve got a kind of a full dance card this week. I’ll poke around Google images tomorrow and see what I can find. If I can find a good classical starting image of Mohammed, that makes it much easier. Then I only have to do the Zombie part.

Well, until then, Stoatie, you COULD do Zombie Islamic Rage boy. 😉

P.S. I just heard that Hamas has issued a Fatwa against our Islamic Miss USA, Rima ‘I Love Hamas, Hezzbollah and Sha’ria law’ Fakih for being seen on TV in a bikini…

Ooooh…ZIRBy! With a pancake on his head, of course! Terrific idea, Scubafreak!

When it comes to that whole winter/summer sun thing, I think Juneau was the worst in the winter…because even when the weather was good, twilight seemed to last as long as daylight…which was awful damn short because Juneau sits in the crack of some mountain range’s ass.

In other news, I await the return of Teh Sphincter.

Meanwhile, Prop 100, the tax increase for Arizona to bailout our idioticly led public education system for the N-teenth-time appears to be carrying traction with 450-odd votes for (the tax increase) to 150-odd against. I will keep my fingers crossed. To give those of Blighty persuasion some perspective, there have been special ‘bond’ elections to give Tucson Unified School District, among others, hundreds of millions of dollars beyond their normally approprated funds over the past few years, and still, magically, they remain bankrupt. But, it’s all “for the children,” so we’ll see if people finally pull their heads out of their ass and realize, the more money you give them the more they’ll spend. This is the reason we need a school voucher system. I still don’t understand where the money is going, as I know two public school teachers, and they’re paid krap. Private schools run on a quarter the budget and turn out much more highly educated students, more college applicants and pay their teachers more. It is an enigma! Throwing more money to them sure as hell isn’t the answer.

http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/2010/05/18/arkansas-primary-results/

Release the kraken!

PS on the Tucson Prop 100 those counts are from “2% of precincts reporting” so there is hope…. I imagine a total of 20-40k votes in all. I’m sure the lib turnout around the U of Arizona is skewing it at the moment.

It never gets really *dark* here because there’s about fifty flares burning off the crapthane gas from the oil wells, and there’s usually so much dust in the air that the light’s scattered pretty well.

Some nights it’s bright enough to read a newspaper outdoors All. Night. Long.

Which, in turn, keeps the birds awake and complaining All. Night. Long.

Stoaty, forget Google images. If you’re looking for a base pic for Zombie Mohammed, where else would you go but Zombie’s Mohammad Image Archive?

http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/

Oh, that’s where I looked first, Pablo. But I think I’m going to go with a later “generic man in turban” to start. Some images are just more photoshoppable than others.

I used to live in Yorkshire. You could read outside until 10.30 pm or so during midsummer. End of June, early July, the sky never got truly dark but instead was what they call ‘nautical twilight’. If the moon was out you could quite clearly see your way, even on unlit country roads (thank God – I had to walk 15 miles home one night after getting marooned at a pub.)

The flipside, of course, was that for the whole of December and January you went to work in the dark and went home in the dark.