Tag: Alan Bennett

• A Right Royal Knit-Wit (Saturday Snapshot)

  And now for something completely different for this week’s Saturday Snapshot… a Not The Jubilee Knitted Queen! I spotted the pattern in Fiona Goble’s Knit Your Own Royal Wedding (published last year by Ivy Press) and decided she would be perfect as Alan Bennett’s book-loving monarch in The Uncommon Reader, but I altered her a…

  chrisharding53

  June 9, 2012

  Alan Bennett, books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, jubilee, knitting, reading, royal wedding, The Queen

• A Very Uncommon Queen

  This knitted Queen, from  Knit Your Own Royal Wedding, by Fiona Goble, looks such fun I may make one Well, it’s the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne, so here are some reading suggestions for those who want to escape the brouhaha which surrounds the event. Firstly there’s Sue Townsend’s ‘The Queen and…

  chrisharding53

  February 6, 2012

  Alan Bennett, books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, reading, The Queen