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mme_hardy ([personal profile] mme_hardy) wrote2013-11-01 09:09 am

How I will be spending Saturday

http://www.gbacg.org/current/lace-buttons.php

I'm very pleased.  The workshop is led by the author, whose valuable book has been out of print for many years (it sells for exorbitant amounts from used booksellers).  I own the Kindle edition, which is unsatisfactory, and the author will be selling copies of the book at the workshop!   The skill involved is tricky, and I look forward to having somebody knowledgeable there to explain what I'm doing wrong.   Finally, the finished objects are beautiful.   Whee!

In unrelated news, I am very pleased by the Wiki entry for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_Cock_Bridge .   Every so often Dr. Bowdler loses one, and this time it's due to public protest.  I found this by following the link for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane , which turns out to have been a very popular street name dateable to at least 1230.   Alas, the last instance was renamed sometime in the 16th century.

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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2013-11-02 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
Buttons!

Those are both great wikipedia articles. Not a single [citation need].