20th December 2012

Guest post from @maxnugget, an extraordinary woman of our acquaintance:

The Sarah Lund Tea Cosy

If you’re looking for that elusive Scandinavian gift for the office Forbrydelsen fan then you’ve still got time to knit a Sarah Lund tea cosy. Cheap and cheerful and nothing says Merry Christmas like the gift of acrylic wool. It takes about 4 hours to knit so you can do it while you’re watching telly.

I can’t read knitting patterns, in fact they may as well be in Danish, so I’ve written out instructions and done a chart in Excel. I’m a very basic knitter so on a scale of 1 to 10 it’s about a 2 difficulty wise.

LINK

If you don’t want to tackle that you could always pick up Emma Kennedy’s rather enjoyable Killing Handbook or the guide to Copenhagen, and twiddle your thumbs until series II of Borgen starts on January 5th.

Right, I’m off to knit my Birgitte Nyborg power suit mug cosies.

Comments

Pearson Textbook Corrections

This page has moved to a Google Doc (so much easier to edit): https://b.link/mathstextbook

Advent Calendar 2025

1st December 2025

Hello! We've sort of lost count, but think the first Advent Calendar was back in 2003, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine says it looked like this: Of course all the links are dead, but the thing it has in common with this year's is that it is still coded in HTML, probably the last thing I will ever rely on coding for. Now it looks like this: Happy Advent! We have gone for the Bonne Maman JAM Calendar again this year, after leaving it too late last year and it selling out at both Fenwick and Selfridges! We get a fresh pot of jam every day to enjoy with our tartines and Ovomaltines. We also have the Domino's "Merry Crustmas" leaflet, and a MUJI calendar we'll show you later in the month. Do let us know what you are opening every day! You can leave a message below, or email us your ideas and suggestions for future days at robotmaths@outlook.com Have a great day!

The Laboratory

Search This Blog