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

Well, sort of revealed. Revealed in a friends only sort of way 🙂 What I’ve been working on for the convention is lots of little pocket-sized ballycumbers: They’re pretty simple, just made out of snow-foam and pipecleaners, but I think they look quite good, and will make a great goody-bag gift. Unfortunately, I ran out…

I remembered a couple more random things I’d been meaning to blog about, before being distracted by deleting half my entry the other day. For a start, I’d promised to post the official list of books from our fabulous “When Ballycumber went to Dunedin…” memory game we played on our way down to the booksale….

Total: 168 books January (17) Going Postal by Terry Pratchett The Orchard Thieves by Elizabeth Jolley Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun “Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon The Cartoon Connection: The Art…

Border complete, and metallics added: And backstitch done: Now all that remains is to add the date and name details in the spaces above and below the horse (though I’m also contemplating unpicking the eyes of the upper right bear and repositioning them – I put them where the pattern indicated, but I reckon he…

I hadn’t actually planned to take leave this week, but I actually looked at my pay slip last week, and suddenly noticed that my accrued leave was getting to the point where our HR department would start harassing me to use some of it up. And then I looked at my diary and realised that…