Goodies by Airmail

Yesterday's mail brought goodies from the United Kingdom! My Secret Pal sent me two copies of Crochet Monthly, the British version of Magic Crochet, a doily pattern book, thread cutter ring, stitch markers, and cat body bookmark. All of it is very extraordinary because I haven't the access to such things, being that I haven't ever been to the UK (but wish almost daily that I could go there and roll around in my native soil).

I'm getting to know my SP and she recently told me she think she fits being a Shrone, with the exception about cats. While cats and Shronedom do seem to be intertwined, it is more about the relationship with a cat, which can also be had with a dog, parrot, rabbit, horse, and possibly lizards and amphibians. Plus, I think one is automatically a Shrone if they are native of the UK. It has to do with the lilting sounds of the various UK accents. Anyone possessing an accent is most likely a Shrone. Which is ironic since I have none: I don't even have that twinge of a Washingtonian way of saying "wARsh" for "wash". I've got that bland news caster way of talking. [Oddly, when I had braces a few years ago people kept asking if I was Irish. I'd look at them funny and ask why would they think that? Apparently, the braces were affecting my ability to enunciate properly.]

What is so keen about the Crochet Monthly copies is that they are loaded with Yoko Suzuki designs! I betcha Yoko is a Shrone. She's got way too much style not to be!