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2024 -- Year End review, Part 2 (July -December)
July Early July is usually when the International Medieval Congress is held in Leeds. I have gien a paper every year for a number of...
cdfleiner
Dec 29, 20247 min read
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2024 - a year in review, Part 1 (January - June)
2024 was busy, judging from reviewing my CV (and paperwork for the taxman...) A mix of teaching workshops, taking workshops, giving...
cdfleiner
Dec 29, 20246 min read
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Cats, wool, and spindles -- Advent Calendar 2024, the home stretch
Day 21 - Â appropriately green ahead of our annual viewing of The Thing (it is, after all, the first day of winter in this hemisphere,...
cdfleiner
Dec 28, 20242 min read
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Wool, spindles, and cats: Advent calendar, Part 2
Day 11 - Â A sunshiny blend on a grey day, merino, sari silk, and Punta Arenas (which is a wool from Chile). I always like spinning with...
cdfleiner
Dec 24, 20244 min read
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Spindles, wool, cats -- 2024 Advent Calendar: Part 1
World of Wool Advent Calendar arrived in November -- this is my third year with one of these boxes. This year in addition to the daily...
cdfleiner
Dec 22, 20244 min read
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Weekend of Textiles at the Ancient Technology Centre, Dorset
My classroom for the weekend or 6-7 July was the Earthlodge at the Ancient Technology Centre, in Dorset --I was one quarter of the...
cdfleiner
Jul 21, 20242 min read
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No place like Rome - January 2024
A month in Rome to work and study at the British School at Rome - excellent tonic. I am at work on a book for Liverpool University Press,...
cdfleiner
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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2023 - Looking Back, Part 2 -- May - August
May kicked off with further prep for planting in the allotment -- got my flax in in time despite being a bit late -- with a bonfire. Good...
cdfleiner
Dec 31, 20234 min read
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Betwixtmas Reflection -- 2023 in Review, Part 1: Spinning, Weaving, Textiles & History
That dreamy nothing week between Christmas and New Years is the best -- downtime from the real world, a chance to catch up on projects,...
cdfleiner
Dec 29, 20234 min read
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