Topiary progress report
Only the back-stitch to go on this tree, and I’ll be half-way to finishing the entire picture (there’s four topiary trees in total).
Currently reading: Palm Prints by Fiona Kidman
Only the back-stitch to go on this tree, and I’ll be half-way to finishing the entire picture (there’s four topiary trees in total).
Currently reading: Palm Prints by Fiona Kidman
…tend to gang agley due to the lure of a lazy weekend, or they do in my life, anyway. I had all these good intentions of spending the weekend working on my linguistics essay, preparing Wednesday’s ESOL lesson so I don’t have to do it at the last minute, testing out my new secret super-powers…
Had an email today to say that someone had just caught Wuthering Heights, one of the books I released at last year’s mini-convention. So that’s another book that’s taken 10 months between release and catch. The finder said they’re going to send it to Austria, so I hope it gets another journal entry when it…
I think I’ll let the photos speak for themselves (and yes, that’s me at the sewing machine, and no, I wasn’t hiding from the camera, that was actually the only way I could see what I was sewing!): [album 128913 050207secret01.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 050207secret02.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 050207secret03.jpg thumblink] [album 128913 050207secret04.jpg thumblink] [album…
One of Ming’s many oddities is an obsession about paper lying on the floor. If there’s a piece of paper on the floor he’ll sit there and paw at it trying to see what’s underneath it, and if he can’t manage to lift it up it usually ends up shredded. The other night I left…
San Francisco Signs we’re in America: the breakfast provided by the hostel offered a choice of bagel or waffles. Signs we’re in California: there are recycling bins in every room, and signs reminding you to save water. Amazingly, we were all awake reasonably early and managed to get breakfasted and out of the hostel without…
Christmas approacheth fast, and I even went to a nativity play on Sunday… well, sort of a nativity play – meerkitten invited me along to watch her Sunday School’s Christmas play, which was actually four plays: three different versions of the nativity story with modern twists, and a story about christmas trees that Meerkitten starred…