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BettyStovesEyes

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Denizen of the Scottish Borders. Attempting to while away my remaining time with increasingly trivial pursuits. Available to reach things off high shelves in Morrisons for fellow customers on request

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 36m

I'm home on Monday so I'll send it over then and have a proper dekko at these - thanks!

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 23h

This, for DK, is my current. I don't do the fancy bits, just use it for proportion, but might do a split hem on the one I've got on the go

Can email you the pdf if you'd like

ravel.me/not-too-much

Not too much pattern by Hinterm Stein

ravel.me

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

And this is why I only do plain top down st-st raglan jumpers in the round - because you count once when you cast on, once when you divide for sleeves and that's IT, totally brain-free

Although I do have lots of sock-sized oddments 🤔

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Also, has she not realised that violas and viola players are the butt of every musician's joke ever?

Eg: how do you pass grade 8 viola?
Open the case without help
How do you get a distinction?
Hold the instrument from memory

Etc etc

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Twinned with Hawick

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

Have to confess now that this is a modern production and Brunnhilde looks like Judy Finnegan if she were a junior HR manager

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

See above. Even the lilac one

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

Listen, I'm in Berlin, half way through the Ring Cycle, so I'm coming back on Monday with magic swords, dragons and a whole set of Norse gods under my control, I laugh in the face of your hot water bottles

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

Not managed more than half an ep myself up till now, but as far as I can see it's just Wink Murder

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

I'm relying on you to hold the line on this one Sid till I get back from holiday and can join in

Until recently I thought Fry had written the worst book I'd ever read. Then I had my lunch while browsing in the library and had to revise my opinion. He has written the worst TWO books I've ever read

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

Crossed with mine... 5 digits up till 2022, and our former neighbours still do!

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

We had a 5 digit until we moved to civilization 3 years ago... The original 3 digits plus the 1970s 2 digit addition

It confused the hell out of online forms but you could add any digit on the end, so effectively all the houses there had (and still have) 10 useable numbers

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

In the days when you had to talk to the lady at the exchange to get her to connect you, 4 digits. I found that a terrifying task as a kid because I was never sure if I had to tell her my number (2366) or grandma's (2041)

Codes arrived about 1972 in our bit of the world, to much consternation

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 3d

Appreciated, and vicariously enjoyed ❤️

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 3d

Am on holiday, and relying on you to stand in for my eyes for last week and next week, so I'm hoping you regain your powers soon

In the meantime... Do you have a 1 word summary of La Voix's performance you could share, to keep me going? (I know who went out so I'm not in crisis mode)

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 3d

Sample size of 1 here!

My sleep pattern perked up pretty fast, but the brain fog took a little longer to clear.

Might be a dosage adjustment if you don't feel the benefit soon. Make non urgent appt? Can always cancel if you're sorted by then

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 4d

Yaaay! Biggest achievement of the past week. 🎉

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 5d

Whatever it takes...

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 5d

Away, so catching up remotely to the good Strictly news

And imagining thousands of votes being cast purely to get Sid back amongst us where he belongs

Great work everyone ❤️

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 6d

V similar conversation this week, prompted by being asked if we were excited about going on holiday this week

Looking forward to it, pleased, thankful, fortunate, anticipating good things, yes. Excited? No.

Don't think excitement is in my repertoire. Too prepared? Or just born middle aged?

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 6d

Oof, as an only child I didn't have the sibling element to contend with

Respect to you for holding it all together

✊🏼♥️

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 6d

I have (kind of) been there, until saved by COVID which persuaded her she could not carry on in her own house

So I absolutely get the impact on you

As others say, hard but essential to tell yourself you can only do what you can - and wait for a crisis, which will come, and which will help you

❤️

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 7d

Is adding a bit of egg an option?

Asking because I had to do exactly the same thing for Mr S this week when he was trying to make rosti cakes with the wrong sort of potato and no binding ingredient 🙄

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 7d

Rubbish video quality but sound is fine, does this work for you??

youtu.be/IqAobOSUubQ?...

Victoria Wood As Seen on TV: Kitty 4

YouTube video by Random Clippings

youtu.be

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