another yarn seduction

It is not my fault if I discover one of the local craft stores is selling 50g balls of Rowan Natural Silk Aran (a silk/linen/viscose blend) at 99p a hit rather than the usual four pounds something each.

(whistles as she heads home with a bag of yarn)

I'll work out what to do with it later. Sometime.

A nice end to Friday.

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Deborah reads this. "Eric. I really must state that I consider wild indulgence in carnal pleasures amongst the ruins of battered, bloody corpses unsuitable pastimes for our living room."
Deborah says "This is definitely lawn activity."

requesting wisdom

Ladies, fish, and gentlemen (I'm listening to Blue Oyster Cult), your assistance, please.

On Monday, while visiting York, I wandered into a crafts/antiques sale thing and picked up a couple of statuettes for seven pounds the pair. They're about ten inches high, and feel as if they're made of wood. (Too heavy to be plastic.)

I cannot find any identifying marks on them, except for an R.B. carved into each. I can't even identify the culture they come from.

I don't expect them to turn out to be lost masterpieces (apart from in my wildest dreams), and am quite prepared for them to turn out to be mass-produced or whatever, and will still keep them, but has anyone seen anything like them? Or can anyone identify the national costumes?

http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/0005p0kx/g32 - front view
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/0005qby0/g32 - back view