[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-some-lovely-tidbits-for-yoooou":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hurrah, my knit-tastic studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a> (aka Deadly Knitshade) ROCKED the BBC Breakfast Show on Saturday morning. She's wearing the scarf she made of all the colours of the Tube lines for her \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stitchldn.com/Books.html\">\u003Ci>Stitch London\u003C/a>\u003C/i> book, and she even fit into the scarf's pocket a little knitted Queen, two corgis and \u003Ca href=\"http://knitthepigeon.com/\">Cooey the Pigeon\u003C/a>. Hurrah! You can watch it on YouTube \u003Ca href=\"http://youtu.be/jz7VF4tVluM\">here\u003C/a>:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"1350\"/>\\r\n\\r\nAnd a big thanks to Birmingham-based \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> fan \u003Cb>Robert St.Valentine\u003C/b> for creating a page for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.picklerye.com\">The Pickle online magazine\u003C/a>! I'll upload that soon (along with Tammy Taylor's recent pages), but you can have a sneak preview here at \u003Ci>Thunderpig\u003C/i>, about a city pig with delusions if superheroism.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.picklerye.com\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pickle_robstvalentine-1b74fa45e6.gif\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nAnd this is just plain cute! Thanks to fab comics team \u003Cb>Frank & Becky\u003C/b> at \u003Ca href=\"http://tinykittenteeth.com/\">Tiny Kitten Teeth\u003C/a> for the link to this old clip from \u003Ci>Tales of the Riverbank\u003C/i>, also known as \u003Ci>Hammy the Hamster\u003C/i>. It reminds me a little bit of a book I used to love as a kid, called \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_and_the_Motorcycle\">\u003Ci>The Mouse and the Motorcycle\u003C/i> by Beverly Cleary. Or perhaps \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers\">\u003Ci>The Borrowers Afloat\u003C/i>\u003C/a> by Mary Norton.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"1351\"/>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> just sent the link for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5PjQW16r0\">a longer clip from the same show\u003C/a> in the '70s, narrated by Johnny Morris. A gerbil with an electric saw! My other studio mate, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a>, gave good commentary, finishing with, 'So sad, they'll probably all be dead by now.' Philip attributed it to the power tools.","2012-02-13T18:21:00.000Z","some-lovely-tidbits-for-yoooou",[],"some lovely tidbits for yoooou...",1776628721464]