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yum, tastiest lunch sandwich ever: cheese roll+ wholegrain mustard + cheddar cheese + tomato paste + spring onions.
I am in the process of preparing a costume for a "medieval" themed dinner at a conference I'm going to. As many of you know, my fibre sport is knitting, NOT sewing. Unlike nurse_liz and claire_wain the precision necessary for cutting out patterns and cloth is somewhat foreign to me. I have cut out all of the pieces of red suedette (shhh, I know, but it's actually very promising) for the skirt, and am doing a waist-coat thing tonight (well, I have cut the paper, have to do the dreaded pinning and chopping now). I think I may be being a little, um, ambitious. It appears to be quite fitted. Still, I can stay stitch. I have interfacing. I have maroon thread. I have a ripe vocabulary, and the ability to not throw my sewing machine out of the window. How bad can it be?
We have started using the library again, due to skintness (getting the car serviced and MOT'ed was almost £600 worth of ouch). I enjoyed eavesdropping on a conversation between two slightly odd looking library residents about 'Notes on a Scandal'. They were talking about the character played by Judi Dench as if she were someone they knew, and they were worried about her: "Judi really suprised me when she behaved in that way" "yes, normally, she's so well controlled".
I also watched an older lady ask for a book by entirely the wrong name, and when the librarian couldn't find it and suggested the alternate (correct) title, she was adamant, and a little patronising about how she could remember a simple title correctly. This conversation went on for more than five minutes, until she checked a scrap of paper in her handbag, and had the grace to apologise and retrieve the right book from the stacks. The librarian must have been some sort of saint, because she didn't even roll her eyes at me.
Recommend me things to get from the library. What should I sample? What has inspired your brain recently? I have 'Hellfire' by Mia Gallagher, about which I have read nothing, but was the only promising looking thing in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section. Only a chapter or so in, but it reads like a grown up, darker version of the YA Urban Fantasy books that I love so much.
Woo! Books!
I am in the process of preparing a costume for a "medieval" themed dinner at a conference I'm going to. As many of you know, my fibre sport is knitting, NOT sewing. Unlike nurse_liz and claire_wain the precision necessary for cutting out patterns and cloth is somewhat foreign to me. I have cut out all of the pieces of red suedette (shhh, I know, but it's actually very promising) for the skirt, and am doing a waist-coat thing tonight (well, I have cut the paper, have to do the dreaded pinning and chopping now). I think I may be being a little, um, ambitious. It appears to be quite fitted. Still, I can stay stitch. I have interfacing. I have maroon thread. I have a ripe vocabulary, and the ability to not throw my sewing machine out of the window. How bad can it be?
We have started using the library again, due to skintness (getting the car serviced and MOT'ed was almost £600 worth of ouch). I enjoyed eavesdropping on a conversation between two slightly odd looking library residents about 'Notes on a Scandal'. They were talking about the character played by Judi Dench as if she were someone they knew, and they were worried about her: "Judi really suprised me when she behaved in that way" "yes, normally, she's so well controlled".
I also watched an older lady ask for a book by entirely the wrong name, and when the librarian couldn't find it and suggested the alternate (correct) title, she was adamant, and a little patronising about how she could remember a simple title correctly. This conversation went on for more than five minutes, until she checked a scrap of paper in her handbag, and had the grace to apologise and retrieve the right book from the stacks. The librarian must have been some sort of saint, because she didn't even roll her eyes at me.
Recommend me things to get from the library. What should I sample? What has inspired your brain recently? I have 'Hellfire' by Mia Gallagher, about which I have read nothing, but was the only promising looking thing in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section. Only a chapter or so in, but it reads like a grown up, darker version of the YA Urban Fantasy books that I love so much.
Woo! Books!