Knitalongs often have their own blogs, where members share any difficulties they're having with the project, post photos of their progress, and generally join in and help each other despite being scattered across the globe!

[H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said Bother! and Oh blow! and also Hang spring-cleaning! and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

That such antics were really a disguising tactic meant to mask the fact that ministers de Brun and McGuinness are operating a partitionist Stormont government with British civil servants may fool some of the more gullible Shinners, but few were around the north Down and east Belfast fortresses of Education and Health to notice the butcher's apron fluttering outside on millennium day.

This first article looked at the present situation and asks if lessons can be learned from the past, when the railways were the prime mover in the development of tourism and leisure travel.