Hooch and Great A’tuin
A photo of the cranberry hooch with the initial (leaky) balloon.
Subsequent balloons didn’t work any better. It’s almost three weeks old, and the balloon is lying there sadly. I’m half afraid to check it; it’s probably strong enough to kick a mule halfway ’round the world. (P.S.: It’s not. I tasted it today and it’s still sweet as sin and not very boozy. Must be cold enough in here to slow fermentation.)
In other news, here’s the pincushion I put together for a Ravelry swap in the Ankh-Morpork Knitters Guild group. I’ll bet CMOT Dibbler could make a mint with the hooch. Oh, and I am a failure as a design engineer: I made the elephants what I thought were the right size but, when all was said and done, could not figure out how to get them, Discworld and Great A’tuin together.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:29 am
“In other news, here’s the pincushion I put together for a Ravelry swap in the Ankh-Morpork Knitters Guild group. I’ll bet CMOT Dibbler could make a mint with the hooch. Oh, and I am a failure as a design engineer: I made the elephants what I thought were the right size but, when all was said and done, could not figure out how to get them, Discworld and Great A’tuin together.”
WTF kind of rambling is this? Where do elephants come from? CMOT Dibbler mint hooch? MOM!? Do I have to tell the doctor mental instability runs in my family?
February 9th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
ROFL! I guess that doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it? You’re s’posed to be able to read my mind!
Ravelry (ravelry.com) is an online knitting group. Within it are dozens of sub-groups devoted to particular subjects: knitters who love Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (the Ankh-Morpork Knitters Guild), knitters who are geeks, knitters who paint their toenails pink, you name it.
The AMKG decided to do a swap where we all drew partners, knitted a pincushion on a Discworld theme, and sent them to our partners. I knitted the Great A’tuin, which is the gigantic turtle on the back of which the Discworld proceeds through space. Hence, the turtle. The disc officially rests on the backs of four elephants standing on A’tuin’s shell. Hence, the elephants. But once I had all the pieces, I couldn’t get the elephants to perform their function properly; hence, the failure as a design engineer.
And CMOT Dibbler is a character in Discworld, famed for selling “sausages inna bun” that contain … no one really knows for sure, but it’s unlikely to be actual sausage. He’d really love the hooch.
Got it now?
February 11th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Good Golly Northwood, catch up with the rest of us. I knew what she was talking about and grinned at the thought.
It’s been a naughty month here in Iowa. For some reason at least one conversation a day seems to degrade into “limp balloon” type humor.
Very cool pincushion.
Sorry about the hooch. And the limp balloons.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
ROFL… several of the young women at my knitting night are young and two are preggers. We regularly have conversations that rate in the “limp balloon” or “birth horror” genres. It’s really fun, since such conversations with family members that age would likely fall in the “ewwwww, too much information!” category.
I got the balloon to blow clear up to about 4″ diameter! But it deflates at night, when it gets colder. (Oops, sorry, that was unintentional.)