tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37889571169318526842024-03-05T12:44:55.206+08:00Furry with RufflesFurry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-14946184808264979062016-12-27T11:16:00.001+08:002016-12-27T11:16:59.345+08:00Christmas 2016Merry Christmas to anyone who calls in to check up on me here. It's been a relatively quiet one Chez Harrow. My Mum came to stay for a couple of days which was lovely even if I stressed over getting things just so. I know she loves me whatever. Made her up a Christmas Stocking just like the ones we used to get when my brother and I were kids - piece of fruit in the tip, FurrywithRuffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786662835616347314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-20642550524832580722016-05-03T10:04:00.000+08:002016-05-03T10:04:01.450+08:00Restarting and restructuring"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
I had always thought this was a quote by some FurrywithRuffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786662835616347314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-59657566390998296512012-10-07T18:46:00.001+08:002012-10-07T18:52:10.898+08:00Survival post car destashWell it seems like it's been ages since I saw the back end of Gertie and I seem to have coped so far. I'm probably walking to the train a little more - not a bad thing - and BikeBoy's Great White Commodore has been driven more than it would have been. Not sure on the GWC. The seat is not easy to adjust. The seat belt tries to strangle me and it has no downward adjustment Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-16757078415355228022012-10-01T23:23:00.000+08:002012-10-01T23:23:04.453+08:00So long since I postedWhere to start? Done the whole Paris and London thing and was so totally caught up in the time away and lack of quality wifi that all my good intentions went straight down the toilet. C'est la vie! To sum it all up though, we had so much fun I'd do it all again in a heartbeat. There was crapiness, yes. But also much sunshine and cycling and shopping and knitting and Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-30352380344173154252011-07-14T11:07:00.000+08:002011-07-14T11:07:27.313+08:00It's getting closer.....Bastille Day is upon us!Well it's now July, my birthday's next Sunday and we fly out to Paris ONE MONTH AFTER THAT!!! Not that I'm excited you understand dear readers. We now have everything except the UK part of our journey locked in. Two cycle tours in France before we come home - one in Provence and one around the Loire Valley (with an extra day thrown in so I can see Chenonceaux!)
I get some Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-13897299252545480672011-05-18T12:14:00.000+08:002011-05-18T12:14:38.765+08:00Le Grand Tour (or Paris here we come!)It's getting closer! Yes, BikeBoy has qualified for the Paris-Brest-Paris Audax ride which starts on August 21. That means we have to go to Paris. Qu'elle domage! swoons So far we have flights (arrive at Charles de Gaulle on the 19th) and ideas that we will spend some time in the UK with a cycling tour in France before we head home on September 25. Apart from that Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-34612031521433718392011-02-13T15:10:00.000+08:002011-02-13T15:10:16.019+08:00Twenty-elevenHow slack can I really get? We are already into February and I haven't even said hello yet. This is due to a lot of life getting in the way of course. I was on holiday all of January - yes I could have said hello then! Had a week at the Hopman Cup tennis with friends I see once a year for this event. The tournament went swimmingly until the final couple of sessions Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-21799148139662546542010-12-06T00:37:00.000+08:002010-12-06T00:37:49.732+08:00The Run Down to ChristmasOMG! Less than 3 weeks to the dreaded Yuletide getmorepresentseatlotsafoodlayaroundanddonothing holiday period. Maybe you can tell that the only reason I like it at all is that it signals some time off?? I believe that the consumerfest that is Christmas is only truly fun when small (read: less than 5 years old) kids are involved. I really wouldn't mind not getting 'presents' but just seeing Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-4162105504307653072010-11-23T11:05:00.000+08:002010-11-23T11:05:36.505+08:00Back to work with me!Well I have returned to work after a two week hiatus during which time I spent just over a week in Melbourne. I did NOT take Georgie with me but chose to rely on Griselda to see how she performed. I have to report that she did exceptionally well. I can actually hear people on the phone now - always a positive - and her alarms and other features have worked without a hiccough so far. The Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-88835100330773655342010-10-26T13:51:00.000+08:002010-10-26T13:51:53.976+08:00PANIC! Problems already?Griselda has issues! Apparently folks who call me on the phone or who I call are unable to hear what I say and think it sounds like my voice is being fed through a scrambler as it comes out deep and unintelligible. It is also said to drop out although the bars tell me I have plenty of signal. Things are not good in device-land. Stay tuned as we work through this.
On a positive note, Cookie A'sFurry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-72979797543578009762010-10-25T10:34:00.000+08:002010-10-25T10:34:04.416+08:00Bye, Bye Georgie!Moving on from Georgie - who you'll remember held my life on a small but usefully sized hard drive and several finger nail chips they call microSD cards, I have now to welcome to the stable Griselda. Griselda is an HTC Desire and looks a bit like the i@@@@@ but definitely isn't. Means I am firmly in Google hands now as the operating system is a Google company, Android. On the whole, this worksFurry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-76037542058980659712010-09-20T01:05:00.000+08:002010-09-20T01:05:44.852+08:00Oh how could I have deserted you my blog!It may appear to some tat I have been totally slack and not up to much but I assure you good readers (if indeed there are any of you out there), that I have been turning over the stitches and moving on with the knitting projects as well as cycling up a storm. I have also been working - yup that ole 4-letter word again but hey, it pays the bills and there's been a lot of those lately as wellFurry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-33882863563873280312010-08-01T13:44:00.001+08:002010-08-01T19:26:36.810+08:00Different Views of Toodyay - Queen's Birthday Long Weekend (June 5-7, 2010) - Part 2To contrast with the previous post, on the first weekend of June the lovely HelenG and AnnL of Knitting Inspirations held their annual knitting retreat at Avalon Homestead in Toodyay. Husband Perry rode the distance to Toodyay while I took everything else in the big car with my bike in the back - a great splitting of workload I thought. I got to spend a little longer in town doing a Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-53512543177990606572010-06-20T19:47:00.000+08:002010-06-20T19:47:28.993+08:00Different Views of Toodyay - Anzac Day long weekend - Part 1This year I have been privileged to visit Toodyay for two weekends with two very different groups of people and with two very different results on my sanity. Firstly there was the cycling expedition on our Anzac Day long weekend. The original plan of our illustrious leader Colin - he of the RED cycling nicks (no man should EVER wear these!) - was to ride to Gingin where we would stay Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-37334607417993157062010-01-30T17:41:00.000+08:002010-01-30T17:41:07.285+08:00The Start of a New Year - Out of the Naughties and into the TwentiesOK! Well in spite of setting myself rules about knitting lace and when I should and should not do it - broken them already!! Not so much the black lace which is difficult to knit at the best of times but any lace knitted after 10pm seems to defeat me at the moment so the rule is:
NO lace after 10pm - which ever time zone you're in!
I have just returned from Bright, Victoria where DH Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-18315965079847969032009-12-30T23:42:00.000+08:002009-12-30T23:42:51.998+08:00Things I have learned in 2009 - Number 2 - Using the internet after midnightIn the second of this series, I shall tell you a sad story of coming home, high on the fumes of tennismania (aka Hopman Cup Tennis) to log onto the interwebs, then to Ravelry and the terrible results thereof. It transpired early in 2009 that my credit card wilted under the pressure of this onslaught and I committed to so many things that the remainder of the year was a complete shambles. SoFurry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-13614141062585671932009-12-26T23:07:00.000+08:002009-12-26T23:07:28.380+08:00Things I have learned in 2009 - Number 1 - Knitting after 10pmDon't start fine lace after 10pm when you are tired
Don't start knitting lace after 10pm when you are tired and the yarn is cobweb weight AND BLACK!
Don't start knitting lace after 10pm when you are tired and you've had any amount of alcohol
Don't start knitting lace when in a group and you are tired
Try taking note of your own comments on this matter instead of thinking you know better - IT Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-55958347861637552082009-10-21T22:55:00.001+08:002009-10-24T11:51:25.330+08:00Doing some charity stuff
Back to our usual level of overcommitment, I am participating in the Cancer Council's Relay for Life with our group 'Knitters for a Cure', commonly known as K-FAC! We have a goal to raise $3000 and are currently over 80% towards our total. Raffle prizes are available to like-minded knitters who want to donate AND expand their non-stash.*
This coming weekend - October 24 and 25 from Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-73942504994906421922009-10-03T00:05:00.010+08:002009-10-03T01:01:06.788+08:00Evicted from our Monday Meetup
Cartoon on page 4, The Voice Community Newspaper,
Saturday October 3, 2009
Thanks to the kindness of DH, I have been home scaring the cats these last four days trying to avoid coughing so hard that my eyes pop out - not fun! He claims to have got this wondrous bug from a cycling buddy during the recent On Ya Bike tour around New Norcia, Toodyay, Northam & etc. Not sure how you would HelenLRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17944607909440044665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-87069035933135504912009-08-25T15:47:00.004+08:002009-08-25T16:25:30.648+08:00An Act of God - Fun & Games at TullamarineFinally home after another fun board meeting in Melbourne. Every quarter - basically February, May, August and November - I attend the professional association board or Council meeting as the Western Australian representative. Fly out of Perth very early Saturday so I have some free time cruising Melbourne in the afternoon then the meeting runs all day Sunday, most of Monday and I come home HelenLRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17944607909440044665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-24273390815064046702009-08-14T18:56:00.012+08:002009-08-14T19:45:40.000+08:00Slacker I am......as Yoda might put it. Can't believe I've put no updates here since - OMG May!!! Dear Bloggosphere you have missed THE EVENT of this annum - The Centenary Celebration itself - the celebration of his and mine half century type-y thing birthday stuff. Yeah!It happened. Then it was over. Gah! There was a dinner on July 25th with all our favourite people in attendance and everyone was sooo Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-83754009424574520862009-05-26T20:09:00.008+08:002009-05-26T20:49:12.527+08:00Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Quote from Shakespeare's "Henry V"Sock Wars IV has commenced its long and bloody path through dedicated sock knitters worldwide. There are 282 confirmed sock warriors and the battle commenced at sometime around 3am Perth time on 16 May at which point the weapons of sock destruction were released – Insidious, Air Raid and Barcelona. Apart from a minor hiccough with Barcelona all seems well. Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-77651717464416769622009-04-20T23:59:00.003+08:002009-04-21T00:11:26.677+08:00Ridiculous quizzes...why do we go there?And in the latest of quizzes you didn't need to take...Created by Recipe StarCreated by Recipe StarI just don't think people have enough to do with their time but I was sucked in anyway. These ones are just so far left of centre. At least those quizzes in Glamour and Cleo and Cosmo told you how likely you were to get a date / keep the boy / shop yourself into a stupour / etc. All good and Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-54319939497010182122009-03-08T18:58:00.007+09:002009-03-08T19:17:45.935+09:00March updateLooking at the Blog and thinking I should feed it but what with? Having a bit of a ho hum kinda month so far. Hay fever has struck with a vengence and feeling like crap most mornings doesn't help the joie de vive at all. Motoring on with knitting projects as I have another swap to get going on and am making socks as fast as I can. Post date is supposed to be March 10 but as it's the 8th Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788957116931852684.post-57768939780834709542009-02-24T07:51:00.001+09:002009-02-24T07:53:16.170+09:00What Star Wars character are you?Well apparently you can be almost anyone but I am bits of people. Whoda thunk it?Your results:You are Luke SkywalkerLuke Skywalker 76%Han Solo 72%Princess Leia 67%Anakin Skywalker 65%Lando Calrissian 63%Jar Jar Binks 59%Boba Fett 59%C-3PO 58%Padme 58%R2-D2 57%You value your friends and loved ones, but can sometimes act recklessly because of your emotions. Occasionally you resort to whining. Furry with Ruffleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10324373562534683741noreply@blogger.com0