Watching the By Royal Variety performance on Ovation tonight, there was an excerpt from Wicked the Musical shown, and guess who plays the Wizard of Oz?? NEIL FROM THE YOUNG ONES!! When I pointed at the TV and said the previous, all I got was a blank stare and a “Who?”.
**falls.off.chair**
I then jumped onto MSN to ask two of my friends who are ‘around’ the same age as my husband, and begged that they knew who The Young Ones were. No.. they did not…
I feel this may be a defining difference between GenXers and GenYers. Me, being a GenXer, had the references to The Young Ones, and afterwards Rik Mayal, whereas my husband and friends (the GenYers) maybe didn’t have a GenXer to introduce them, my sister did, however. LOL..
For those of you who don’t know who The Young Ones are, here is their big ‘hit’ song with Cliff Richard.
That’s right folks! There’s starting to be a lot of activity behind the scenes getting ready to launch the Vintage Grrl website! (Approx date is 30th September, 2008).
We’ll be opening with Hand-dyed fibre, some quirky badges, stitch markers and some spinning bling (ie: orifice hooks).
Things to come by the end of the year are project bags, spinners swags and hand-dyed yarns.
I am currently spinning an epic proportion of laceweight singles in a beautiful Optim/Soy/Bamboo blend. Ok.. sure it’s only 200g worth, but 60g FILLS a bobbin! So in between bobbins I am spinning ‘little’ things to give me a little break.
I’m also using these “little spins” to try some new things. I bought 50g of a Merino/silk blended tops at the Bendigo show, so thought I’d try something with it. I spun the singles worsted at roughly a laceweight, then beaded some rayon plying thread with some beads and spun a little as a 2ply with beads spaced sporadically through the yarn. There’s about 14g of that. I then decided to ply the rest as a “four ply chain”, or a “4 ply navajo”. All I really did, was navajo the fibre, while carrying the rayon plying thread. And here is what came of it.
I’m really happy with the results, and it’s destined to be a cowl
