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I finished my nephew's cardigan (progress shots are available on my tumblr - muladhara). It's spent the last two days blocking in the kitchen and is now finally dry! \o/

I am so pleased with it, and it's the first piece of clothing I've ever made.

Now for the next one!

(Well, after I have finished knitting this burp cloth. After a visit from my brother and nephew on Friday, mum and I came to realise that we are woefully unprepared for a child in this house. So I went out and bought some rusk-type baby biscuits, some soft plastic spoons*, and I'm knitting the burp cloth. I'm also going to make some toys, a blanket, and a box to put them all in).

*I didn't buy soft baby food because it turns out that my sister in law puts some in the baby's bag for emergencies.

Talking of babies, me and mum watched some of the kids' TV on S4C at dinner time. Because we didn't watch the tennis. Anyway.

A) It's nice to know Welsh voice actors sound as terrible as English speaking ones (Large Ham, anyone?)
B) The Welsh are totally into princes, princesses, kings, and queens, right? Oh, and castles. Words learnt today: brenhin, brenhines, brenhinol** (king/queen/royal)
C) Kids' TV is irritating to adults no matter what language it's in.

**Feel free to correct spellings. I don't have my Welsh/English dictionary handy, I didn't ask my mum, and I can't be bothered to check google translate because fuck that shit.

We came to the conclusion that we may show my nephew some of it when he's older. I'd like him to be at least a bit familiar with Welsh (although he will grow up bilingually speaking English/Afrikaans, which is pretty damned cool anyway).

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I was going to say some other stuff, but I've since forgotten it, and now I need to be asleep anyway. So I should go and do that.