I have been extremely neglectful of this platform - should have reported on Draco's last two agility competitions (one KC, one local - actually at the local horse carriage driving school), in neither of which he exactly covered himself in glory (but at least he didn't abscond ( Read more... )

I am currently using my old DW blog (Ina_Jean) for posts on knitting and crochet linked to Ravelry. This means keeping track of where I am posting what, and logging into and out of the two DW accounts ( Read more... )

I am still trying to either reinstate my original LJ layout (which was pretty basic) or find one that doesn't (a ) allow overlarge pictures to break the page and (b) let me see more than 10 posts at a time. No luck yet ( Read more... )

It's been an up and down week. The dogs were in kennels on Sunday as we had to go to Solihull for the annual cat club AGM, at which I again failed to extricate myself from the committee, but at least things seem to be chugging along pretty much without me ( Read more... )

OK, I admit it. For years Lil had been throwing out food that I would have kept merely because it was past its 'sell by' date. Mostly lettuce. Why do supermarkets have to sell Cos in packs of two? Earlier this week I spread the remains of some blue cheese that she'd missed on a two day old bun. I have spent most of the last two days painting the ( Read more... )

I have been crafting. Specifically a pair of horned headphone covers inspired by Eddie Grundy's cowboy hat and The Flower and Produce Show in The Archers for the 'Knit (or crochet) Radio 4' Challenge.


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I spent the New Year intermittently hacking at recalcitrant screws, and finishing a hat for Lil ( Read more... )

I have been doing stuff, though not the stuff I should have been doing; painting the staircase f’instance, or coding this year’s fanfic roundup, or, indeed, making more regular LJ posts ( Read more... )

We took the dogs out early as we had to be at the vet for Kurt's check-up at 10.20. This time I managed to keep the dogs in the sitting room while Lil grabbed and bagged the cat. We made pretty good time to Buckhurst Hill but the vet's parking spaces were full so I took the cat in while Lil drove a couple of times round the block to find ( Read more... )

I have been dreadfully remiss in updating my LJ/DW (and am only using IJ as a test bed for fest fanfic). This last month I have taken Draco to the Discover Dogs exhibition at Earls Court ( and received an unexpected and very posh rosette for him from the ETT Club), manned the Singapura table at the Supreme Cat Show (I actually remembered that I ( Read more... )