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Dyeing to Spin: December 2014
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Wednesday, 10 December 2014. And learning to behave (at last)! Bailey will be four months old on Thursday. The time has gone so quickly. He's now eating carrots (see pic above) - this photo looks as though the carrot was painted on afterwards, but it was just a particularly bright piece of carrot! Sunday, 7 December 2014. Which I thought might add a bit of depth to the dye. The le...
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Dyeing to Spin: September 2014
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Friday, 26 September 2014. Bailey, Brody, Cotton and Laziness. It's so long since I blogged, you probably thought I'd disappeared off the planet! I've either been ultra-busy, lazy, or just had nothing to say for myself. Well, probably a little bit of those with quite a lot of laziness thrown in. I have three green cotton plants and they're all about this size :-. Jak's really impr...
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Dyeing to Spin: August 2015
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Monday, 31 August 2015. And Then There Were Two. This little chap arrived a few weeks ago, 8 days after Caramac (yes, the first baby was finally given a name). Here he is, staying pretty close to his Mum, Bella. Hope, Caramac's Mum, seemed to think she should have this baby too and kept trying to steal him! Cadbury and Caramac were immediately friends and love to play together.
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Dyeing to Spin: May 2015
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Sunday, 24 May 2015. You may have noticed I've not been around for a while! No excuses, BUT . . . over the last three months we have been rather busy - not too busy to blog, just too busy to do anything to blog about! Well, all this had to be finished by 2nd May, and was - just! So, what happened on 2nd May? We had guests coming out of our ears! Tents being erected in the garden.
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Dyeing to Spin: November 2014
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Sunday, 30 November 2014. It looks as though I'm becoming as bad as Eric with his guitars! Look what arrived during the week :-. Yep, it's another spinning wheel! A not-very-flattering photo of the workman! After a few hitches and confusions (and a bit of help from The Resident Engineer! It was finally finished:-. My new Majacraft Aura, and what a pretty girl she is! I'd been want...
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Dyeing to Spin: Tour de Fleece 2015 - Week Two
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Tour de Fleece 2015 - Week Two. We had a pretty busy week music-wise last week, so not much in the way of spinning got done. I managed to do something most days towards the TdF, but not always spinning. The week's jobs were all about the preparation for making a boucle yarn which is one of the challenges for week 3. It was incredibly easy to spin - I just fl...
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Dyeing to Spin: July 2014
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Sunday, 27 July 2014. The Demise of the Silkworms. Well, I've been planning to write this post for a little while. This year's silkworm experience has been disappointing to say the least. From between 600 and 800 baby silkworms, I have about 20 cocoons! I've been battling with various disease issues I think for quite a while. Not only was I amazed that any. Whenever there has been...
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Dyeing to Spin: March 2015
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Wednesday, 25 March 2015. Sad news - Rob and Tammy's baby alpaca, Babycham, died last week. She'd had diarrhea for a few days, but otherwise seemed totally healthy. That's alpacas for you - they hide all their symptoms until they're too ill to treat. My favourite photo of Babycham and Bailey. Rest in Peace little one. Sunday, 15 March 2015. Spinning Progress - Waste Not Want Not.
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Dyeing to Spin: February 2015
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Thursday, 19 February 2015. Bailey is six months old today! How did that happen? His fleece is getting quite long now, and messy! He's changed a bit since this photo was taken :-. Mum, as usual, looks on adoringly :-. Or was it the carrots she'd spied? I need to spin some colour after this! Tuesday, 3 February 2015. Look what we woke up to this morning :-. I Survived the Tour de F...
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Dyeing to Spin: August 2014
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A day-to-day overview of our life in the Gascon countryside, sprinkled with a bit of music, spinning, knitting, and building. Thursday, 28 August 2014. Just tried to put a little video of Bailey and Babycham on here, but it was taking far too long to load. You can view it here instead if you want Facebook. They were quite playful today, and much more confident of me being in the field. Thankfully, so are their Mums! Sunday, 24 August 2014. Baby Has a Name. Friday, 22 August 2014. The Long Wait is Over.