So many projects on my once-my-thesis-is-finished list, I really didn’t know where to start. But I felt like playing with colour, so I pulled out my not-quite-finished Birds in Flight quilt (Wow, it’s nearly two years since I finished the top, and I still haven’t quilted it! Probably because I got over-ambitious about what I…
vidence that spring is here: I came home tonight to a house full of feathers. So many feathers that I was sure Parsnips must have caught a blackbird, or possibly an albatross. But when I followed the trail of feathers in and out of several rooms, and finally found the victim under my desk, it…
ay for five-day weekends! (Tuesday is a university holiday, on top of the usual Easter public holidays). I’ll admit my first instinct was to treat the long weekend as three extra days I could spend in my office coding my data (a long and laborious process – I’ve got tens of thousands of instances of…
There is a type of tiny quilt that is commonly called a “mug rug”. Except, in my house apparently it would be more appropriately called a “cat mat”. “What? It looked comfortable.” I have decided that Parsnips follows a definite set of rules when deciding whether to sit on something: Truth condition Probability of cat…
First page of my Cool Cats birthday colouring book: As soon as I saw that face, I just had to colour him to look like Raji! (I don’t know if I got his markings exactly right, Mum, but don’t you agree that’s totally a Raji expression he’s got on his face???)
ou want to hear my latest excuse for not having posted here for ages? This time it’s not me that’s been sick (or the DearDiary site), but my computer. I discovered a nasty malware infection on it, and as removing it looked like it was going to be a long and involved process (it was…
arsnips has obviously been out hunting today, because when I got home and walked into the kitchen, I felt a lump under my foot. A rather squishy lump. And when I looked down, there was a slightly flattened mouse, oozing its innards onto the rug… I suppose I should be thankful that she left her…
You’ll all be relieved to hear that I made it to the supermarket (it’s stopped raining, but still very cold, so I compromised by taking the bus there and a taxi back, to minimise my waiting around in the cold time) so Parsnips is now replete with catfood and very happy. And I’m stocked up…
Parsnips is currently sitting in the laundry basket. I’m not sure that’s where she intended to be (I suspect she jumped up thinking she’d land on top of the lid (one of her preferred places to sit and watch the world go by), not realising I’d just taken everything out of the basket to put…
o I went and bought fabric for the Birds in Flight quilt yesterday. Just the background fabric, because I’ve decided to use a “scrappy” style for the actual birds (where you use a mixture of similarly coloured fabrics to make up the shape, rather than just one fabric), and I’ve got more than enough in…