Robert and I are back from a short break to Spain: he started in Santiago, then met me in the south where we spent 3 days in Grenada, 1 night in Jaen and 3 more days in Córdoba.

While he was in Santiago, I'd detoured via Polderslot for their autumn event, to catch up with my favourite non-Thamesreach shire ( Read more... )

Everyone and their dog says Bath is beautiful. And it probably is ( Read more... )

Had a short break in Bristol and Bath including goncalves and J's wedding, and a lazy day in London seeing the Sam Fogg exhibit in the West EndStarted sniffling on Monday night. Am now 2 days into the first cold of the season ( Read more... )

I spent a few days with badgersandjam this week. Her flat is very conveniently located close to a train station, so it's easy to reach. While there's a bit of road noise, it's beautifully naturally lit, and there's no screaming-neighbours noise that we put up with regularly ( Read more... )

We got more of our Raglan kit back yesterday from the Vitus-Wagon.

Moar Laundries in my future ( Read more... )

Christmas is Robert's and my favourite time to Make Stuff(tm) - uninterrupted blocks of time to work on projects.

This year's list for me is a mix of old favourites, repairs, and making new stuff.

Scrolls x 4 for 12th night

Largesse list
- Veil pins - old favourite
- Finishing pouches
    - sewing
    - eyelets
    - braiding or plying cords
    - assembly
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 For our last day Ooop North (now armed with OS maps borrowed from Haakon's dad) we started out with a ride along the coast to the village of Craster and Dunstanburgh castle. Craster is tiny, and has basically been consigned to the tourist industry, lacking a real fishing industry anymore. It feels a bit sad to me - fishing villages shouldn't be ( Read more... )

Our first modest cycling holiday was a success.

The point of the trip was to attend the christening of Haakon and Odindisa's little boy J, with Robert standing as one of the three godparents. Looking at the map, we saw that several castles were within fairly short distances of the village we'd be visiting, but were a bit too far for walking. So we ( Read more... )

Some cycling.
Some groceries (shopping at Lidl sort of counts as 'food').
Some time in the library (got parts 2 &3 of Fionovar tapestry out - I don't own a copy).
Laundry done, cleaning done enough for gaming guests on Monday.
Lengthy swathes spent scribing and painting, including a bit of time spent with starmadeshadow , who had some useful tips for dealing with ( Read more... )

Just for fun while we were in Bruges and Ghent, I started noting the different styles of rosaries that were shown in the late-period paintings. It gave me something to focus on while studying the rich and startlingly clear and crisp images of the 'Flemish Primitives', which is the collective description for those painters who worked around the same ( Read more... )