Protected: I don't know whether to laugh or scream (Warning: rant follows)

(for the last couple of days, anyway). The mess creative process: The outcome (so far): Plus I’ve got about another 40 notebooks covered that now just need to be decorated.

We actually had a whole day without an aftershock yesterday! According to geonet here was a 3.4 at 10.32 on Saturday night, then nothing significant until 12.30 this morning, when we had a 4.6 (which actually woke me up – normally I’ve been sleeping through everything less than a 5, but it was quite shallow…

I’ve had a busy wee day today. I made: Apricot muffins Apricot and orange loaf Walnut biscuits (which don’t actually contain walnuts – it’s an old family recipe that once upon a time called for walnuts, but as none of us liked them, we always substituted sultanas. The name has stuck, though.) Gingernuts Fruit loaf…

I got a phone call tonight from sherlockfan, very excited about the parcel that she’d got this morning, so I can now reveal the secret of the hug box. Recently, while on holiday in France, sherlockfan had a fall which put her in hospital. Her holiday was cut short and she had to be medevacced…

Poolburn landscape (or waterscape): [album 128913 100111poolburn.jpg thumblink] Back home now. I think George missed me – he’s been basically glued to my lap ever since I got home.

Rarsberry asked me what backstitching is. Cross-stitch differs from other forms of embroidery in that there’s only a few basic stitches. Most forms of embroidery use lots of different stitches, with the different textures of them forming the design. Cross-stitch, on the other hand, really only has three different stitches (there are others that are…