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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Erin Go Bragh!!!

Look what I have on!!!


TA DA!!!


Why, yes, the cables do twist in opposite directions, thank you for noticing!
(GB was not sufficiently impressed with this. Nor was he sufficiently concerned with wearing green today. He briefly had on a tee-shirt of his son's that was army camoflauge (with the words "Ha! Now you can't see me" on it) but it was a tiny bit small, and so he looked a bit like a boy band member, which amused me more than it did him. He settled for a red shirt with this patch on the chest

which he swears is green.)


"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Oliver Goldsmith

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torchwhich I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." Brendan Behan

"When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Ireland." J. P. Dunleavy

"A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all." G.B. Shaw

"I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish!" Marianne Moore

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde

"No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up." Robert Lynd

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity." Samuel Butler

"The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another." Samuel Johnson

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead." Robert Lynd

"There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful." Katherine Tynan Hinkson

"A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other." Sean O'Casey

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." W. Somerset Maugham

"One wonders in this place, why anyone is left in Dublin, or London, or Paris where it would be better, one would think to live in a tent or hut, with this magnificent sea and sky, and to breathe this wonderful air which is like wine in one's teeth." J. M. Synge

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." W. B. Yeats

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation." G.B Shaw

"A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better." G.B Shaw

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." G.B Shaw

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." G.B Shaw

and for more tidbits go here.

Meanwhile, I finished the socks last night with plenty of time to spare, and immediately cast on a pair of socks for GB.... I'll resume on the stockings tonight...

5 Comments:

Blogger erica said...

Your socks are beautirific!
The cable looks great.

I need your advice on a good toe-up sock. I'm not so sure about the pattern I've used in the past.

11:17 AM  
Blogger erica said...

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11:17 AM  
Blogger erica said...

I deleted the last one because I hit "Post" twice. Sorry.

11:18 AM  
Blogger erica said...

Thanks for the sock tips. Or should I say toes? :) I was casting on four stitches and then increasing into each of those four. It leaves a ridge at the toe that's not very comfy.
Ooh, I can't wait to start a new pair of socks with your toe tips.

11:48 AM  
Blogger vi said...

hihi Amie,
thaddeaus is currently in a box on the floor being dive bombed by his sister,
I tell you this as this is what I watched while waiting for the comment box to actually come up. (what is with blogger anyway?)
I like your finished socks.
I am working on 'easter egg' colored socks.
I should be done by saturday at the latest.
vi

7:59 PM  

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