I think I spent more of my long weekend watching the Tour de France and reading Ghost Ship from cover to cover, than I did tidying but I only have 2 plastic crates and 2 document boxes left to go through and the cupboard is looking fairly civilised (a lot of what we've kept is actually packing materials, but it seems silly to throw out bubblewrap ( Read more... )

Have only broken the work website twice so far today ( Read more... )

Definitely a Wild Woman channelling day today - Boots of Wonder, superhero dress, leather trenchcoat, wild and woolly weather (I nearly got lifted off my feet on Hawkhill on the way into work!). Very glad to be in my nice non-howly office rather than the Turret today!

Have I mentioned how much I love autumn recently? ;)

I went to put my merino cardigan on this morning and realised it has developed 4 holes since I washed it! Am most annoyed, I know it said handwash but I did it on a wool cycle in a fine mesh bag for heaven's sake :( All the other handwash garments I own have survived that no problem. And the really annoying thing is that they are completedly out of ( Read more... )

In typical fashion I kept wanting to post last week when I couldn't even read my flist but since LJ has been working again, I've singularly failed to be inspired ( Read more... )

* I walked about 5 miles along Tentsmuir Sands barefoot yesterday. I'm quite surprised I don't have sore feet or a dodgy hip today but then I guess soft sand is quite supportive. It was very pleasant, although the sea was unsurprisingly rather colder than Brighouse Bay was (North Sea vs Irish ( Read more... )

- Am reading Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente at the moment. It's like the novel version of some kind of mad Studio Ghibili film with added sex, written in incredibly flouncy language. The poetry and imagery is impressive but the characters seem completedly empty so far, it doesn't seem to have any heart underneath the surface. Maybe I'm just an ( Read more... )

- Off to pottery shortly. Am thoroughly leaf obsessed at the moment. I discovered new glazes buried in the cupboard before xmas and they turned out wonderfully on a leaf mask thing I made (it was supposed to be a Green Man but it's not awfully face-like apart from having eye and mouth holes) so now I'm thinking of trying a leaf wall plaque similar ( Read more... )

- The only areas of the bathroom that are still lacking any coats of white paint are around the door and the outer window sill
- I have travelled on 9 trains in the past few weeks and they all ran on time- I seem to have acquired the ability to wake up at 7.30am, which is decidedly handy in allowing me to get a full day's work done while still ( Read more... )

The Boy and I were just sitting watching the Chelsea Flower show yesterday evening, when all of a sudden, there was a funny poppy bang noise and a big spark flashed on the metal grate in the fireplace. I was just wondering what the hell had happened (and worrying the gas was about to explode or something, as we have a living flame gas fire) when ( Read more... )