Butcher on Copy-Editing, the book, that is. I went up to BY today to get photos of the vacuum cleaner, as someone from the Freecycle list asked for one; so I also retrieved two bags of wadding, the magazine rack of embroidery magazines, two boxes of printed-out Snarry and Snupin stories, and a bag of books ... which I thought I'd looked in before, ( Read more... )

Got a letter this morning from Islington - well, I thought it was from the council, till I opened it, when I found it was ... sort of. It was from the Labour councillor (to whom I'd sent All The Gory Details), saying she was 'concerned' about the problems I'd been having, and would be looking into it. Her actual words are: "I will take this up ( Read more... )

I have a heat-proof table mat. It's a circle of the heatproof matting you can buy to put on tables, dark brown leather-look with a white/cream felt backing - I got it as a free sample at an Ideal Home Show or a craft show some years ago. It lives on the dining table, on top of a rubber mat (which is bigger) so I can put hot stuff straight down ( Read more... )

I managed TWO runs up to BY to bring stuff back today! Before the first one I went out to post paper towels to eoforyth for her kids to plant cress on, and paid the TV rental while I was in the PO getting a Large Letter stamp for the above.

However, ( I was delayed... )

Have had to take a break from sorting, because of the dust ( Read more... )