I thought I would make a new post to respond to a comment left in my last post. I had posted this: " I'm Scottish, but due to moving around a lot when I was young I have an English accent. I don't like my accent at all - this is not to say that I think there is anything wrong with being English, but I'm Scottish, and it bugs me that I always sound like a visitor to my own country. " I dithered about posting this in the first place, because I was anxious that it would come off in a bad light. Kirsty's comment reads as follows - and I would like to say a thank you to her for posting. I would rather someone posted their opinion and gave me the opportunity to clarify something I've posted, than they walk away thinking I'm narrow-minded. "I would just like to point out that lots of people without Scottish accents actually like to consider themselves to live here, and not just visitors, but ingrained attitudes like that certainly make us feel less than
Hi, like the look of your handspun. The browny-greeny one reminds me of those chocolate mint sweets you used to get in the big jars in the newsagents.
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Hope the chainmail scarf went down a treat. x
Hey there :) Thanks!
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Oh yeah... I threaded the sequins onto lengths of thread and spun them in with the fibre - the thread itself disappears into the fibres.
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