Amigurumi Love Bug
Made for a valentines present, but not for the other half! Who could it be for? :p
A dinky 3 inches high 
and made with tiny bits of snuggly dk wool. Took about 3 episodes of Peep Show to knit and stuff
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Ickle Amigurumi Koala
A koala made from a knitted toybox pattern knittedtoybox.blogspot.com/2008/11/koala-baby.html.
He worked out quite well, but one of the ears is an odd shape because of my casting on I think.
Took a few hours, a small bit of DK wool and an even tinier bit of contrasting colour wool for the ears.
The photo is from my mobile so not that great, I’ll get round to retaking all the pictures with a proper camera soon!
Silchester Insula IX
Welcome to the website for the Silchester Project at the University of Reading.
This is a test ’shareit’ post from the Silchester website, checking I can set permissions up properly!
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Closing date day!
Today was the closing date for receipt of applications for the job I applied for last week. Fingers crossed everyone!
The first dinosaur!
My first dino! Very pleased with him, and intending on making loads more from the Jean Greenhowe toy book. They have a few species, and even some cave people that are 1 inch high! Not archaeologically accurate but I love the idea of wee people to have with the dinos.
I think this one might go to nephew number 1
Made with peter pan double knit wool and 3mm needles – I think he took about 2 and half hours? Not sure because I was watching Hitman the mobie for some of that
Tiny Turtle – my first toy!
My first knitted toy/non clothing thing! The pattern is from Knitted toybox. I found it when I was looking for something to use up odd bits of wool – he’s so cute and wee! I managed to do it in a hour or two whilst watching tv so it was super quick and easy as well.
Prepare for a knitted toy invasion!
Levelling up in the knitting world!
The first grown up piece of knitting!
This lovely purple jumper type thing is the first piece of knitting that I’ve done that hasn’t been a) a small accessory such as a hat or b) for a baby!
Go me! It’s probably not that complicated as it was only a one star difficulty in the Rowan pattern book, but still, go me. It even has a nice gold thread running through it for added sparkle!
Rowan Classic Woman pattern book
The pattern book has some beaut stuff in it, but the wool has been discontinued 
A bugger, because if I want to make anything else from it I’m going to have to work out and try to understand that wool substitution thing – which frankly still seems like a black art! It’s Rowan Lux wool, if anyone has any ideas
Trinity Baby!
Baby JH - the First Trinity Baby!
Last weekend saw a trip to Manchester to see the latest addition to the bambinos of the last few months, and the first of the Trinity Babies! Baby JH (as we aunties will call him). He’s well beaut, and his mummy is looking fabulous, despite having a sprog only 6 weeks ago. Hopefully, he’ll be the last baby amongst my friends for a while, this auntie business is expensive and there is only so much knitting one can do!
Knitting for Baby MJ
There have been hats, bootees, jumpers, cardigans and blankets for some of the most notable births in 2008. These probable stars and famous archaeologists of the future include:
Morgan Flynn O’Riordan (nephew 2!)
Isobel Amber Munday (first girl baby!)
Murran Jean Haston (first archaeologist baby!)
John Harry Edward Callaghan (first Trinity baby!)
That means lots of 1st birthdays in 2009, and so lots of hunting round the shops for suitable dinosaur presents as well as cute yet chewable book! Hooray!
Applying for Jobs and feeling queasy
Why oh why do job applications make you feel horribly queasy? You haven’t lied, you haven’t done anything wrong or stolen sweeties from a small child or granny yet the act of sealing the envelope and sending the letter to the postbox never to be seen again is horrifying. The next time someone lays eyes on it will be when they decide whether or not to shortlist you. When they are deciding your future career prospects. The other thing about the process that makes you feel odd (well me anyway) is that, reading the cover letter and application back, you seem so qualified and grown up. I know I’m not getting any younger but seeing on paper what you can apparently do just seems to add 10 years.
I have just applied for a job that I’m sure I could do, given the chance, but will I even get to that stage? I need some coffee!
Tombraider Underworld – my new addiction
Hours of my time since the end of the holidays have been taken up with running around after artefacts, changing outfits, and delving into mythology and archaeology. Yes, a typical day for an archaeology researcher so ticking all the boxes of my day job but also Tomb Raider underworld.
Yes, the first new opiate of 2009 has been discovered by me! And I love it. I’ve lved all the Tomb radiers. Yes, I know that the controls for the playstation were odd, i know that the pointy boobs in the early games were annoying, that the exact lining up of jumps on the pc was frustrating and that the stories just get more and more weird, but what other game makes Archaeology look so cool and therefore is the perfect antidote to the current crisis in that field? (Actually, the archaeologist quests in Fable 2 are pretty cool.) I’ll post more about it here when I get a few levels through, but so far, so good!
