Guest blogger "Nifty_IT" and some well known party leaders!

Time for a second guest blogger, Nifty_IT aka Philip, who is having his first bash at a blog post!

You may have guessed I am Niftyknits' other half, and @Nifty_IT is my Twitter name. Since we moved to Kent in late 2005 I started a small IT business, providing computer help in all shapes and sizes to local schools, the charity sector, and individual home users, not to mention Heather's online knitting business! I did some work at the Citizens Advice Bureau in Ashford and they subsequently roped me in as a voluntary generalist advisor for half a day a week. Fascinating and rewarding but hard work.

Since meerkats took over the world, it's been quite a journey, and all this online communication is fairly new to me - I resisted the Twittersphere for some time, but was attracted via the tweetup lunches that started in a pub (a beer always helps!) by an enterprising tweeting landlord (@hoodenershorse) to attract some new Friday business.

It's great to see all the exposure that Heather has generated and we were hoping to see the party leaders on ITV Meridian news doing an alternative broadcast before election day.

Don't forget to vote for your chosen "superpolitico"!

Time to get back to the online engine room and I still have a laptop to fix.

Back to Niftyknits. Thanks for guesting today Philip, while I'm temporarily away from my PC!

PUB CRAFTS TODAY!

You're all invited! Meet me (lucky people!) and pantsandpaper.folksy.com and AngieSutton.folksy.com and one more seller who didn't get into the poster: TwistedTrinkets

Beer and crafts - today!

Tenterden Folk Festival next weekend!

We picked up the programme for next weekend's fair yesterday and flipped through excitedly to see my name in print!



Shutting the programme, I noticed an ad on the back for our local steam railoway. "Oh look, there's a photo of the Morris dancers I blogged about a while back."

Then I looked more closely:



and more closely still:



Yes - it's Mr Nifty and I sharing a "moment"!

If you're in the area, my stall is upstairs in the Town Hall - discount to anyone who claims to know me through blog / twitter / facebook /wherever!

Beer, Cider and Hocus Pocus!

Last Saturday was the Beer and Cider Festival in Tenterden - woohoo! Particularly "woohoo" because it's in easy walking distance (though that might be better termed staggering distance on the way home!)



A highlight for me was the fact that there were two teams of Morris Dancers there to entertain us, and not just with their drinking prowess.

As my regular followers will know I love Morris Dancing and have already knitted quite a few mini-dancers - but this Saturday was the first time I'd met Hocus Pocus.



People who don't know Morris Dancers sometimes think they're all old blokes who wave hankies around - Hocus Pocus couldn't be further from that totally unjust stereotype if they tried! They're loud, sexy and above all FUN.



So obviously I grabbed my knitting needles as soon as I got home...





You can barely tell them apart, can you? ;-)





If you're in Kent their next date is tomorrow 1st July, at the Bell and Jorrocks, Frittenden at 8.30 pm and then on 15th July at the Joiners Arms in West Malling at 8pm.