http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/monster-rat-measuring-a-metre-long-terrifies-swedish-family/story-fneuz6rh-1226865992736

1m long from nose to tail - eeeek. That's 4" longer than a yard.

It tunneled into their apartment & moved in behind the dishwasher. 

For some whacky brained reason* I've become a touch obsessed over making some pillowslips (pillow cases).  I think it was the dawning realisation that I had a whole bunch of miss-matched ones, cos they came with the various sheet sets I've had.  I want to throw them all out, and make a dozen or so in the same fabric. Crazy brain.  And cos I want ( Read more... )

I finished the skirt waistband this morning, huzzah ( Read more... )

one of my work mates got a surprise yesterday - we were chatting about Dr Horrible, Felicia Day & The Guild (dvd is in the mail to me now) & I mentioned getting Felicia Day's autograph at Supanova.  She'd heard about Supanova (unlike anyone else I work with).  Anyway I showed her the pics of me as Selma Bouvier, and disney fairy godmother .... she ( Read more... )

I was telling him about my current crazy food cravings and sauerkraut.  He asked "how do you have that".  "with a fork" & I mimed eating out of the jar.

Maybe you had to be there

I should qualify that by saying I'm over the worst of the food poisoning (hit me on Sunday night our time).  Last night on the bus home from work I was simultaneously trying to be zen & not throw up from nausea with a ferociously lurchy driver and also thinking "mhhhhh picked herrings, wants me some".

So I listened to the body and fetched some ( Read more... )

at an ACG workshop on Sunday we were talking about tattoos & old age ... as in getting them in your old age.  I figured at 80 I could get the hello kitty bow on my forehead and at 90 the whiskers on my face :)

Pilot shocked by snake on plane ... and it's still on board

A pilot in the Northern Territory has been forced to turn his plane around after a snake appeared slithering from his dashboard.

Pilot Braden Blennerhassett with Air Frontier was flying freight to the remote town of Peppimenarti in the Northern Territory when he spotted the snake coming out ( Read more... )

This book is also available at Book Depository.  I'm so tempted by "Feline Couture from Japan's #1 Cat Tailor"


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that was the reply by one of my friends on hearing my home phone was fixed.  What's scary is that it took a few seconds for it to sink in.

LOL