Trying things out

What happens when I do this

Country Names

Bangladesh means the County of Bengal

Pakistan means Land of the Pure but also
P stands for Punjab
A for Afgania an alternative name for the North West Frontier Province
K for Kashmir
S for Sindh and
stan for Baluchistan

What did the White Tornado advertise?

Ans: Ajax

No balls in Cricket

There are front foot and back foot no balls and a whole range of other things such as:

• Throwing the ball rather than bowling
• Beamers
• Changing arms without notifying the umpire (who then notifies the striker).
• Too many bouncers in the over (the number varies according to the type of match)
• Bowling underarm (since 1982)

The full list is available from this link. Other interesting sidebars on this information include:

• International bowler no-balled for 'chucking'.

Brigantia Luxury DK Yarn

I'm in the midst of coming up with a pattern using this wool for fingerless mitts. I looked them up because I wondered about buying some wool and making up kits. Web presence wise they are a little tricky to find, but Brigantia with the same logo tracks back to people who make really rather nice looking tapestry and embroidered rug kits - Jacksons of Hebden Bridge are the parent company, the embroideries can be seen here.

Lots of shops sell the yarn online (and it is very nice, not as scratchy as a pure wool often is, problem is that I suspect that if you even think about water whilst knitting it it will felt), including Sheila's Wool Shop which is an ebay shop, the real life counterpart of which is about six miles away from us.

Cat Fur

It takes between one and three months for a cat's fur to grow back if they are shaved.

Sheila Mercier

played Annie Sugden on Emmerdale Farm a farming based soap opera which is still running on ITV in the UK. Now it is called Emmerdale which I tend to feel should come with an exclamation mark. When it was actually about the farm it was quite good, then it got silly (a plane crashed on the village for pity's sake, far too close to real life I thought, somewhat tactless). What I actually looked up was when she was born (1919).