London: Graffiti knitting confessional
on Jul 13, 2009 in Crochet Knitting London Once in a Lifetime Stuff covent garden derby graffiti knit knit graffiti natural history museum parliament square yarn yarnbomb yarnstorm Still in London. It seems that despite all my best intentions to get in, get out, and get back on the road, I am going to be in London for a bit longer than I planned. The apes, the tigers, the Great Wall, and Grand Canyon will have to wait a bit lon...

London: Pandora the pretty in pork piglet
on Jun 28, 2009 in Animals Knitting London Once in a Lifetime Stuff apple sauce bacon cushion cute knit pig piglet pink pork sweet wildside Who can resist the smell of frying bacon wafting up the stairs and into your sleep on a sunday morning? Well, probably not me. I have to say, however, that I ever since meeting Pickles the tiny porker back in January I’ve felt a little guilty f...

London: The Fourth Plinth: “Knitting girl! Knitting girl!”
on May 16, 2009 in Knitting London Once in a Lifetime Stuff People antony gormley art fourth plinth knit modern art one and other trafalgar square Yesterday morning I was art. It was all the fault of Mr Antony Gormley, whose cast-iron sculptures scared the bejesus out of half of London in 2007 by peering down from South Bank rooftops like rusty angels of death.

London Guerilla Knitting: “My yarn is as bad ass as your spray can.”
on Feb 21, 2009 in Crochet Knitting London Once in a Lifetime Stuff Sights Guerilla knitting. Street art that sings the same yarn-flavoured tune I do. Always had vague fluffy plans of releasing my knits into the city I am all kinds of love with. Always admired those who have done it before me. Never really dreamed I would b...

London: Surprise invasion of the Snow People
on Feb 5, 2009 in London People River codswallop ice sad sculpture snow snowman snowmen snowwomen thames winter Cold and very grumpy trains refuse to leave their grit-platformed stations. Colder and grumpier commuters stand around Underground entrances muttering, but secretly happy to ‘work from home’. Little old ladies grudgingly turn up the th

London: Pretty in Pork
on Jan 30, 2009 in Animals Knitting London commission custom design knit pattern pig piglet pork Her name was Pickles. She was a week-old piglet. A piglet with a problem. Pickles needed to be woolly. A tall order for a small pig. And that was where I came in. The lovely people at Wildside contacted me through S&B London for a little bit of p.

Kathmandu: “These eyes are considered very beautiful.”
on Dec 12, 2008 in Nepal People Sights Temples asia bhuddist christmas city himalayas home kathmandu mosaic space invader stupda temple travel turkey Kathmandu. I have always wanted to come to Kathmandu, though I didn’t really know anything about it. The name alone convinced me it was somewhere I needed to see. What did this Cat Man look like? What was it that he did? Was he married to Dogwo.

Chitwan National Park: “If we see a tiger, we are quiet and meet him eye to eye.”
on Dec 8, 2008 in Animals Nepal Once in a Lifetime Stuff Video animal monkey chitwan national park rhinocerous rhino elephant marsh mugger cotton bug spotted deer ducks birds wildlife safari crocodile “If the rhino runs, we must run in a zig zag or climb a tree.” We shuffled our feet nervously in the leaves on the jungle floor. “If we see a bear then do not run. You run, bear run faster. Do not climb. You climb, bear climb

Tatopani to Beni to Baglung to Pokhara: “Happy Jerni to Pasanjar.”
on Dec 5, 2008 in Animals Bus Knitting Nepal People Taxis and rickshaws Trekking himalayas pokhara trek tatopani baglung himalay anna I had a good feeling about the bus that was to take up from Tatopani to Beni, where we would catch a bus back to Pokhara. The good feeling could well have been because the bus waved a knitted dashboard pretty at me that beamed "Happy Jerni to Pasanja

Sikha (1935m) to Tatopani (1200m) - Trek Day Four: “My name is Large Joyous Wisdom.”
on Dec 5, 2008 in Knitting Nepal Once in a Lifetime Stuff People Trekking himalayas annapurna jomsom hot springs agriculture bath volcanic Brushing your teeth with a quietly buzzing electric toothbrush while standing outside at a water tap with a view of Annapurna One, and being observed by several curious water buffalo in the field next door, is probably one of those moments where you...