Looking at my list of aims last week (ok, aims from last week, since I don't expect to complete all of them in one week, that would be crazy, but I've doing reasonably well I feel ( Read more... )

Pretty much just for myself (and a little bit for Alan), but a list of everything I need/want to do, in categories, so I remember what needs done. It will no doubt be added to as time goes on, and possibly even have things taken off if I finish anything. I've also no doubt forgotten a whole bunch, as evidenced by the fact I wrote this five minutes ( Read more... )

Another short story, again longer than 100 words because I needed more to tell it. This one was inspired by a dream I had last night - though as is so often the case, the dream version didn’t make anything like as much sense ( Read more... )

I was trying to write a story of around 100 words. I actually succeeded on later attempts, but my first guesstimate was over by about 80, and I liked it too much to cut it down. So for anyone who's interested, here it is.

( The Sniper )

I've almost finished my 6 guards in the snow ones - I'm waiting for a piece to arrive from etsy to do the one I really want - and so I fancied putting up pics of the ones I've completed so far. I also have a marine and two chaos in progress, but they're not done yet.

( cut for lots of pic spam )

Yeah, I know it's old-fashioned and the cooler thing to do is to post a rant about arbitrary dates and how you should always try to improve yourself in every way at every time. But sod that, I'm not organised enough to be perfect in every way at all times, so I find it useful to make new year resolutions and give myself a year to live up to them ( Read more... )

So I ran an online game of Werewolves of Millar's Hollow, and in it, as usual, we had a seer. I decided that rather than just tell them the answer, I was going to actually describe the divination method used. Me, Paul and Dan spent a little time at work looking up and laughing over the various divination methods available and so I started to write ( Read more... )

On Friday I was absolutely floored with the cold and had difficulty in thinking straight. I did manage to vaguely get my head together in time to get the girls after childcare but I was not at my best. Once the girls had gone to bed I ended up getting very ill and self-pitying and spent the evening curled up on the sofa texting Alan and trying not ( Read more... )

Well, new as in I designed it ages ago but didn't want to publish the pattern until I gave Toni the present. Cut for those philistines who don't want their newsfeed filled with knitting patterns.

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As the first light of dawn hit the window Sid awoke, as she always did. Smiling at her gently sleeping wife - and husband snoring fit to raise the dead - she slipped into the bathroom, quickly brushed her teeth, and picked up her make up brush ( Read more... )