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So long, Blogspot. Hello, Wordpress!

I've been wanting to move my blog away from Blogspot for a while but could never be bothered to actually do it. This week was the tipping point though, and I've now fully migrated over to  https://patsypoomakes.wordpress.com/ . The blogspot address will remain here but all new posts will only appear at  https://patsypoomakes.wordpress.com/ .  There are lots of reasons for the move but my biggest one is how hard Blogger has made it for people to subscribe to receive new posts via email. It's such a basic requirement but apparently, they think it's too much to offer.  I'm basing this purely on how I myself prefer to consume this stuff. I can't be arsed with feed readers anymore and emails are easy and convenient. When I receive one, if I fancy reading it, I will click through to it and, if not, I'll just delete it. Another reason is the spat between Google (owners of Blogger) and Instagram/Facebook/Meta. I don't even know if this is still the case anymore ...
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WIP - never ending socks and green nails

I'm still working on the never-ending orange socks. Argh!!! It's like I'll never finish them! But actually tonight I can see the end. I only have another inch or less before I get to start the toe decreases. Hopefully I'll have an FO post for them this week! This picture is from a few days ago so it looks like I did better than I thought this week. Ainda estou labutando nas minhas meias sem fim. Argh! Parece que nunca vou terminá-las! Mas na verdade já estou conseguindo enxergar o final. Só falta menos de 3cm para que eu possa começar a diminuir pra formar a ponta dos dedos. Quem sabe tem um post de FO delas essa semana. Essa foto foi tirada há uns dias atrás e pelo jeito eu progredi mais do que me parece. Never ending socks
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International Women's Day

I wasn't going to write a post today. However, I have read so much crap about and seen so many people making fun of International Women's Day that I just thought I'd vent a little. I'm not political, although I have my opinions on stuff and generally these 'days' are just a load of old tosh to me - but I do want a fuss to be made for me on mother's day because THAT is bloody hard work! Although being married can sometimes be even harder work.  Eu não ia escrever um post hoje. Entretanto, li tanta besteira e vi tanta gente tirando sarro do Dia Internacional da Mulher que resolvi dar uma desabafada. Não sou política mas tenho minhas opiniões e normalmente eu acho esses 'dias' uma bobagem - mas eu quero presente no dia das mães porque ser mãe é trabalhoso demais! Se bem que ser casada às vezes é ainda mais difícil. Anyway, there seems to be much questioning of what today is about and I have no doubt it does get lost on most people. I don't beli...
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First camping trip of the year - Bakewell

We love camping. Well, it was camping until last summer but after being caught up in the awful Wales floods in June last year, as we were packing up the trailer tent something like this came out of my lips: "I am NEVER doing this again. If you want to keep going away, you will have to get us a caravan." And so he did. Truth be told, he was pretty p***ed off with it as well. It was just awful! Nós adoramos acampar. Bom, até o ano passado era com barraca e tudo mas agora compramos um trailer - depois do trauma de estar acampando na área quando isso ocorreu no ano passado. Enquanto levantávamos acampamento disse pro meu marido que NUNCA mais eu queria ter que passar por isso. Duas semanas depois, compramos o trailer.  Last weekend we went off for the first time this year, down to Derbyshire - Mr Darcy country - and stayed on a campsite just about on the grounds of Chatsworth House . I love Pride and Prejudice  (film or book. The book is one of my favourites!), we had incre...
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