Birthday Blogger

p/hop is 3! Three! Drei! Trois! Tres! Things have been a tad busy here at p/hop HQ so we’re a little tardy in celebrating our third birthday but there are some exciting things in the pipeline, or should that be on the needles? First things first, a few weeks ago […]

3 is the magic number!

30 Nov, 2011 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by Clare

woolly babby — Like any knitter, I’m often being asked who taught me to knit and how old was I when I learnt and what was my first garment knitted and so on. So I thought I’d have a bit of fun and share some photos of me as a nipper sporting some […]

Woolly genes

22 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger tagged 1970s / Birthday Blogger / hat / knitting / Rocket lollies / Woolly Genes / WoollyWormhead by WoollyWormhead

A couple of weeks ago I was at a yarn show in Edinburgh and one of my customers came to squish the yarn. Her husband was with her, and while she and I chatted, he took a small square of paper from a handmade fabric wallet, and began to fold […]

A butterfly in the forest.

16 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by TheYarnYard

I was going to write my recipe for Tom Yam soup here but seeing as eatknitread beat me to it (what are the chances of two people writing the same recipe?) I’ll give you my easy peasy vegetarian Thai Green Curry recipe instead and will save my veggie version of […]

Vegetarian Thai Green Curry

16 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by theurbanallotment

i love autumn but it tends to get rushed through as a season. i’m barely out of flip flops when people start talking about christmas and all the shops are transformed. last year i made a mistake. i refused to plan for christmas until december and then, of course, it […]

autumn delights

16 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by nancyknits

So, sometimes at MSF, something comes along and takes your week apart. This happens fairly regularly, to a greater and lesser extent. This week that has happened and it has been cholera in Haiti that we have been working flat out on….. The situation in Haiti is dire enough that […]

Knitting interrupted

16 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger / Sponsored knitter tagged emergencies / fundraising / haiti by MSF-Pete

The air is getting colder, the mornings crisper and the evenings are drawing in. All a sure sign that Christmas is getting close. My children have written their Christmas lists; the nine year old has been quite frugal this year, only requesting six gifts and all at very reasonable prices. […]

Christmas in Cardiff

16 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger tagged Cardiff / children / Christmas / crafting / family / knitting / phop / photos / pictures / Wales / winter by Jensta79

Levi x-mas decoration — You know what? We have lots of snow, almost for a month now. Kids really enjoy it, they build snowmen, castles and ride pulkka down the hill. We have had a quite moderate weather, only few days below -20 deg, but the old men say , this will be cold […]

Happy Birthday from Lapland!

16 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by muoriska

Birthdays are funny things, and I usually do my best to ignore mine altogether. Mostly it works! My birthday falls the week before p/hop’s own birthday, so it seems I’m in good company at least. I had a knitterly birthday this year, with a whole weekend spent with two fabulous […]

Woolly Birthdays

15 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger tagged phop by Larissa

Last year I wrote a birthday post about vaccination, unfortunately very little has changed…. I am still teaching about vaccination to Year 9 students, who still don’t know what it means to have the diseases we vaccinate, for that I’m thankful as it means that the world hasn’t crashed and […]

Another bloggy Biology Birthday

12 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by hilltopkatie