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All your stockings are wonderful! And once you started on this, well, there was bound to be a generational clamour!

Bags me the lion!

Berry Patch bear is adorable. (But I'm a sucker for teds.)

Yes, I understand why a border would help!

Yeah, the number of guests -- which I presumed to be bots -- has been alarming. I'll prod Alex about it.

Yes, it does. It's a technique called irregular hatching, and what I've come to realise is that it needs more contrast is showing sea and land, for example, to be really effective. Here are the three little samples done. The green and blue ones are from my week in Ardgour. I'm particularly pleased w...

The hard-faced woman in my driving license photo is a stranger, too. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

Hope the weather improves for the lambs. It's been pretty bad (cold, wet) so far. Also hope your friends have a good home for all that gorgeous wool!

Spot on, Mabel! Really lovely, and I'm sure they'll treasure it.

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Here's a couple of samples of my colour experiments when I was on the retreat at Ardgour. Doesn't look like much, I realise, but we were out on walks learning the Gaelic words for the landscape and colours (and how they are used). Also warping a piece of cloth to be handwoven and then weaving it. An...

Squeaky does look suitably horrified, however! The nerve of the kitten!

Encompass

Congratulations!

Yes, the British take it to a different level, presumably because it's easier to care about dumb animals because they are "dumb" (unless you want to eat them, of course, but sometimes even then because, after all, self-interest is a thing). I also have a theory about this. It always made s...

Huzzah indeed for the rescue of George and the British penchant for this sort of thing.

One's brain is an amazing thing, that's for sure. It will try to make a pattern out of randomness, like clouds, or (in this case) the colour your eye sees if it were possible to actually mix that pink and blue together.

Agree!

Well, THAT'S impressive!

Octave