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Toronto's Summer McIntosh sets a world record in the women's 400-metre freestyle final at the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria, B.C.,

Toronto's Summer McIntosh wins the women's 400-metre freestyle final at the Canadian swimming trials from Victoria, B.C., with a world record time of 3:54:18.

Wool hood continues

Jun. 7th, 2025 01:17 pm
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I've been working on a grey wool hood based on the London finds. It's been a lunchtime and on the bus sewing project as it's small and portable. I bought the hood with a canvas lining, but it was an earlier time period for me, so I have had a bit of an unpick and reshape.

Here's the stab stitching of the linen facing band for the buttons (above) and the sewing down of the seams with a flat fell stitch below.



Nebula winners announced

Jun. 7th, 2025 11:15 pm
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Best Novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

Best Novella: The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)

Best Novelette: Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld 11/24)

Short Story: Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole, Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction: The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts, Vanessa Ricci-Thode (self-published)

Best Game Writing: A Death in Hyperspace, Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J. Kim, Sara S. Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (Infomancy.net)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: Dune: Part Two by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve (Warner Bros)

Kevin O'Donnell, Jr Special Service Award: C.J. Lavigne

Grey Wool Hood

Jun. 8th, 2025 01:03 pm
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Update of the new grey wool hood.

It's coming along quite nicely now. I have buttonholes to add, buttons themselves and the liripipe tail, but the inside seams are stitched down and it's partially hemmed.

Saturday 7 June 1662

Jun. 7th, 2025 11:00 pm
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Posted by Samuel Pepys

To the office, where all the morning, and I find Mr. Coventry is resolved to do much good, and to enquire into all the miscarriages of the office. At noon with him and Sir W. Batten to dinner at Trinity House; where, among others, Sir J. Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, was, who says that yesterday Sir H. Vane had a full hearing at the King’s Bench, and is found guilty; and that he did never hear any man argue more simply than he in all his life, and so others say.

My mind in great trouble whether I should go as I intended to Hampton Court to-morrow or no. At last resolved the contrary, because of the charge thereof, and I am afraid now to bring in any accounts for journeys, and so will others I suppose be, because of Mr. Coventry’s prying into them.

Thence sent for to Sir G. Carteret’s, and there talked with him a good while. I perceive, as he told me, were it not that Mr. Coventry had already feathered his nest in selling of places, he do like him very well, and hopes great good from him. But he complains so of lack of money, that my heart is very sad, under the apprehension of the fall of the office. At my office all the afternoon, and at night hear that my father is gone into the country, but whether to Richmond as he intended, and thence to meet us at Hampton Court on Monday, I know not, or to Brampton. At which I am much troubled. In the evening home and to bed.

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My editor, [personal profile] lanalucy, told me before we started an editing session today that Michaels is taking the retail coverage space Joanne's vacated. They're getting in inventory to sort of incorporate a Joanne's into their stores (they already have some machines and other things in their stores now), and if you log into their web page there's a link that'll show up if you're a Joanne's customer directing you to additional information (not sure how they know someone is a Joanne's customer). So that's going to be an option for y'all, and for those not in the local area and thus denied the joy of Perth street you're not stranded. Joanne's was going to try to tough it out as an online store, but they didn't know how they'd manage that because of their problems, but since Michaels is stepping up to the plate they've decided not to go down that road.

I hope this provides some hope for y'all.
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Protesters gesture on the street next to a makeshift bonfire.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he's deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops in response to protests against immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.

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The facade of a building features the words, 'Health Canada,' and a number of Canadian flags.

Health Canada issued a recall notice on Friday for some Seasonique birth control products due to some packages containing the correct blue-green pills coming with extraneous yellow tablets.

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