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Once upon a time, I was a cool parent.

February 13, 2012 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

And I crocheted chain mail. Somewhere in me, the cool parent still exists and needs to be brought out to play.

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That creative challenge…

January 14, 2012 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

A little while ago I set myself a creative challenge. First of all I had to buy some dpns (double pointed needles) the local charity shop came through there, with three different sets for £2.40. Bargain. So I tried with some handy acrylic yarn. But really I wanted to use something special – like this […]

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Very sunny beach day.

July 5, 2009 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

As we are now close to the beach, it’s rather a draw for small visitors, so a beach trip was in order for Saturday. It took the adults (namely me!) a while to get going, so it was nearly lunchtime by the time we headed out, but we took fruit and water, crisps and sun […]

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Bamboozled Shrug Thing

February 17, 2007 By Jax Blunt 16 Comments

The title is by Tim The shrug is by me, for Big. It’s based on the bamboozled shrug I linked to a week or so back, and I got it out of the Crochet pattern-a-day calendar. I’m quite chuffed with it – I used the king cole pure baby dk I bought before Christmas. It […]

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Look!

December 31, 2006 By Jax Blunt 9 Comments

In the sidebar, I did it! Finished the never-ending shawl Only a week late, as Big is already fond of pointing out. Ah well. Got other things to do tonight, like eat and sleep, so I’ll wish you all a very happy new year, and sign off til 2007 eta piccie taken by Small

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How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress website.
So, you’ve listened to the talks on self hosting your website, you’ve read around on the issues that using wordpress.com or blogger or other free systems might imply and you’ve decided to take the leap. You know you need a domain name, and a host. But what are those things, where do you get them, […] The post How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress
Twitter cards for blogspot users
I’ve previously written on implementing twitter cards on wordpress and in a comment on that post was asked if it could be achieved for blogger. The answer is of course yes, and I found a number of articles claiming to achieve it, but none really seemed straightforward to me, so here’s my own recipe. (To […] The post Twitter cards for blogspot users appeared
How to get a new twitter widget to fix that broken tweetstream.
Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, […] The post How to get a new twitter widget to fix