tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post7521167789407388703..comments2024-03-28T23:25:07.821+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-31880739860261749642008-09-01T22:57:00.000+01:002008-09-01T22:57:00.000+01:00I always thought that men's cuffs divided in line ...I always thought that men's cuffs divided in line with the outer phalange/ little finger. Heaven knows what that would translate to for a bear! I'm also thinking of Prince Charles and his famous cufflink fiddling. I'm a blind knitter too but compund the issue by being blind to gauge!<BR/><BR/>I'm still trying to make sense of the whole Palin issue and feel a little kerflummoxed - what relevance does her family? Surely VP is a figurehead position (unless you're Bush and it's vital)? The majority of work a VP does can't add up to be anything more than what's already done as governor of a whole state. <BR/><BR/>In Australia there's always been the tradition that the press make NO MENTION of a political candidate's or MP's family. This removes any moral rectitude from political debate as far as family goes and allows the pollie's family to try and carry out a 'normal' life while the country kidnaps their husband/father/wife/mother for the next 4 years. Culturally, Australians all know that politicians are accomplished liars, the fun is just to catch them out on their broken election promises or double ended policies!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12124722668160658606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-2675951711290877572008-09-01T20:52:00.000+01:002008-09-01T20:52:00.000+01:00It was posted today that Gov. Palins's daughter is...It was posted today that Gov. Palins's daughter is pregnant now and is due in December so I don't really think that the baby is hers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-71324741521344856522008-09-01T18:43:00.000+01:002008-09-01T18:43:00.000+01:00Our papers are now saying that Palin's daughter is...Our papers are now saying that Palin's daughter is five months pregnant--I'd been wondering why on earth anyone in Palin's position would bother to cover up an illegitimate baby these days; this announcement does at least answer that question.<BR/>Link here: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/palins-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/?hp<BR/>Sorry; I haven't mastered tiny urls. The note appears in "The Caucus" in the New York Times today. <BR/>(Sister H that is)Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06969718871594953655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-48118149282857164982008-09-01T13:56:00.000+01:002008-09-01T13:56:00.000+01:00I'm so glad you are going to keep the cuffs orient...I'm so glad you are going to keep the cuffs oriented as prescribed. I well remember a blouse with long cuffed that I made in the sixties - it had the cheating method of using the underarm seam as the opening, and it drove me quietly up the wall, because the cuff fastening was in the WRONG place. The cuffs kept catching in things as I worked, and I said some pretty harsh things about 'some cheats are not worth doing' before I put that pattern in the bin!<BR/><BR/>Of course that will not worry Mr. Teddy, but he deserves to have things done 'proper'.jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-70969581365840570252008-09-01T13:20:00.000+01:002008-09-01T13:20:00.000+01:00On Sarah Palin - either she's an accomplished liar...On Sarah Palin - either she's an accomplished liar, or someone who makes very strange decisions when under stress. Neither particularly desirable qualities in a Vice-President.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I am totally unconvinced by the allegations. I've looked at the pictures which purport to show no signs of pregnancy, and as a woman who takes some trouble over her clothes I see all sorts of distracting devices to hide the midriff (for example, jackets worn open with a long scarf covering the opening) which a slim woman (as Sarah Palin is when not pregnant) wouldn't use. And if her daughter's plump middle could not be ordinary fat, then I must have four children myself, because that is exactly where I've carried my spare padding since I was 13. Moreover, my experience of friends and family going down with glandular fever (mononucleosis) is that 5-8 months is not an unusually long time to be absent from school. Six months was the norm, up to a year was by no means unheard of. I also can't see that driving to a medical centre is suspicious behaviour when one is off school sick.<BR/><BR/>I find myself wondering if Kathryn Blair is now relieved the papers only pilloried her for being (in their eyes) plump, instead of suggesting that Leo was actually her child!Viviennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15102166089045048403noreply@blogger.com