Today was bright and sunny and warm, not what I was promised at all. I'm really pleased. Another flat turned out to be a fixer-upper, which is not what is wanted. Tomorrow, there will be two more houses and a skip. I do not have to put anything into the skip. I also have to put a picnic together for me and ruthi to eat while we're out ( Read more... )

Spring is still not really here in any meaningful sense. I'm over the stomach bug I caught from my mum, more or less. I'm wiped out by it, still, and my too-tight trousers are now loose. The reports from Empire are very short and scattered, so I don't know much about what I missed, except it was awesome. And cold ( Read more... )

I've got a dress muslin (rough version in scrap fabric to check the fit) which I have been spectacularly failing to post this week. Tomorrow looks good for it ( Read more... )

Actually to be honest I only started playing because I was already having a crap day and wasn't going to get anything done. I like it, but find the controls rather stiff and unreactive. And then, as the chill set in, so were my hands ( Read more... )

I'm in the Radisson Non-Euclidean Hotel near Heathrow, for Eastercon. It's a hotel with a refreshing lack of regard for conventional physics in the architecture - bits of the building go through other dimensions and/or one another, and the corridors are based around a Moebius design ( Read more... )

So, clearing out the loft today, I sorted through my DVDs and chucked out the old games I have on Steam or won't ever play, and old DVDs that turned out to be a bit crap. There are also a few I've forgotten about and am looking forward to watching. Anyway, just as we've finished and I am putting things back, I find a DVD on the floor. Still wrapped ( Read more... )

Last night I read about plate tectonics. Today I made a map, starting with the plates so I could get the landmasses in the right place. Then I got distracted and got it wrong anyway, but it's a decent enough map. Although I splotched a lot inking it in. Nothing which can't be fixed with Tippex and a razor blade. I'm trying to tell my perfectionist ( Read more... )

Today was moderately productive. I didn't actually get dressed, but I did have a shower and change into clean pyjamas. I've been very drowsy with pre-migraine all day and crawling into bed to have a short nap at odd moments ( Read more... )

Today wasn't bad. I had planned to just immerse myself in computer games, but my wrists are sore, so I've ended up going back to my favourite brain candy, Georgette Heyer. I've spent the day downstairs for once, instead of being in my room. Being downstairs gets a lot done. I did Pol's laundry, then finally got to put the hall rugs into wash, then ( Read more... )

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