Like my fellow knitters and crocheters on Ravelry, I have a Flickr account to host the photos that I post to Ravelry. The following story probably wouldn’t have happened without Ravelry and Flickr. Thank you to them!
The Cafe Rouge is a nice place to eat on Eccleshall Road in Sheffield, England. I used to meet my US-American friends there. I always ordered iced water to drink, and loved how they served the water in a faceted glass with a slice of lemon and black straw.
In fact, I loved it so much I made a wall hanging about it, called Iced Water at the Cafe Rouge.
Well, imagine how happy I was when Schmap, a collection of illustrated online maps that shows stuff to do and places to go in Sheffield and many other cities in the world, asked to feature my wall hanging with the Cafe Rouge entry! Naturally, I said yes.
You can see the Schmap web page here.
Update 2023: The schmap link isn’t good anymore, but the Wayback Machine has an abbreviated version of it. The flickr link is still good, though. The Wayback Machine, at internetarchive.org has been such a help in reconstituting my blogs—especially for the original dates.
In the earliest days of my blog, I posted some step-by-step photos of Iced Water at the Cafe Rouge. If you would like to see them, search “iced water”, and read the posts from March 6, 2005 (two of them on that day), March 11, and March 16, 2005.