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cable knit cowl The online store is offline for a few days while we load our beautiful new product images and 2011 products.
eyelet knit hat with vintage buttons Here’s another look at some of our lovely new images by Leanne at hbfotografic. cable beanie
Working with Leanne is always a lot of fun and our models, Louise, Daphne, Siobhan and Tina (not shown here) were just fantastic. Thanks to all of you!

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There’s a line in The Simpsons where Principal Skinner tells Mrs Krabappel that he admires her ability to be offended by broad social trends. Apparently there’s even a Facebook group for people who take offence to most things. I haven’t joined, although perhaps I should. The thing that is really annoying me at the moment is those stickers that seemingly one in two cars on the road is currently sporting. You know the ones, they are little cartoon character people that are meant to represent the members of your family. There’s a couple of things bothering me about them. Firstly. Why? What’s the point? Secondly, the sticker selection process bothers me. Today I passed a car that had stickers showing the Mum with a little handbag and a mobile phone. Hands up if you have a handbag and a mobile phone. All hands up? Thought so. Dad was depicted on a computer. Is there a man in your house and a computer? Yes? Two kids. One on a skateboard, one in ballet clothes. A dog. Hardly ground breaking stuff here. Again, what are they trying to say? “Look, we do what 90% of families do” or perhaps “Mum can’t think of anything more interesting about her self than the fact she owns a handbag and phone, Dad is a workaholic and the kids are average. Oh and we have a dog.” Woot. In the interests of research I visited the website of one of these sticker providers to see if they had stickers that represent our family. I started with myself. The Mum options included amongst others one laden with shopping bags (vacuous sterotype), Mum in Army gear (I wonder if they were front line troops uniforms - hello Stephen Smith!), Mum in various sporting guises, etc. I suppose I could have picked the book reading Mum or the tennis playing Mum or even the gardening Mum, but these are activities that I only spend a few hours on per week. Where was the Mum picking up empty toilet paper rolls off the floor sticker? There’s a decal I can relate to. The Dad options weren’t much more useful. Fishing Dad could have worked, as could have football Dad or gardening or bike riding Dad. Laptop Dad is the most likely, but who wants to publicly define themselves by the fact that they spend 90 hours a week or so on their computer? The boy ones had the usual boy activities - football, games console, skateboarding, etc. I looked for the one that had two boys beating the bejesus out of each other, complete with cartoon movement lines, but to no avail. Nor were there any boy leaving books beside the toilet or boy throwing a wobbly when he can’t find a piece of Lego images. There are angel decals too. These just confused me. Do they mean “my kid is an angel” or “my kid is deceased”? At least the ones below cut out the ambiguity in a charmingly morbid way.
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