I've been very crap at updating recently, probably a sign that I've not been doing anything very exciting ( Read more... )

For the past Quite A While, in between various other things, I've been sewing patchwork birds, from The Tartan Kiwi's patterns (in one of those fits of timing, I found them the month that the Quilt Along finished).

This afternoon, I finished the last seagull!


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Having remembered that it's happening in a month and a bit, I thought I should have a think about something I could make for Baby Next Door for his second birthday ( Read more... )

I buy my (washing up) rubber gloves in packs of six. Under my kitchen sink at present are three packets: one is unopened, one contains five lefts and four rights, the other contains six lefts (which are there after I consolidated two packs each containing three lefts). I presume the situation is the same but reversed for left-handed people, and if ( Read more... )

We've has a heron hanging around a bit, lately. Our fingers are crossed that the new pond cover is working, and it does seem that way: no evidence of fish being taken, although it's hard to tell when they're being sluggish in the cold ( Read more... )

Mike swapped the lens on my new iPhone back for the one on my old one, and now I can take pictures again!

(Well, I could always take pictures. It's just now they show something other than a pale blur....)

We've been busy in the garden, and now the fish pond looks Much Better:


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We had a day of weather bemusement today: it eventually turned out that the Met Office was actually more accurate than the various rain radar services that we also use because (usually) they're more accurate. I suspect that that's because only the Met Office realised that the cloud would be at ground level.... Still, the boys got to go outside for ( Read more... )

Today, we've been shifting things over to winter mode: the bird feeders are filled, the parasol and clothes line are put away, the conservatory's been tidied and rearranged so that it can be used if we have a sunny day. This despite the fact that it is still stupidly warm: GB's having to wear his hat in the field, and I've been walking the dog in ( Read more... )

So, we figured out the cause of Psycho GB the other night: the Woman Who Owns The Valley had moved her two mares from the nearby-but-out-of-sight field to the field immediately behind our stables, and both GB and the Gelding Over the Road were both being nutters because of this. He was a bit of an arse the following morning, but seems to be ( Read more... )

So, what have we been doing?

We had our first visitors, coth and family, en route to a very early morning ferry to France. As part of the prep, I spent a day running up pairs of curtains so that they'd actually be able to get some sleep. (Today, I went and bought Even More fabric, to have a crack at a table cloth that will not only be big enough for ( Read more... )