Last day of the winter school holidays... And I've been really lazy. I've been walking my neighbours' dogs at lunchtime during the weekdays, and getting my new computer in order, and knitting. I bought a lovely organically dyed wool yarn with changing colours at the beginning of the week, with the plan to knit a pair of thick, warm and pretty leg ( Read more... )

Yesterday my nice neighbours invited me to share their Thai take-away dinner, as a thank-you for walking their dogs this week, and also fed me dark chocolate, fresh strawberries, and two kinds of single-malt whisky. I got very giggly ( Read more... )

LCHF stands for Low-Carb High-Fat, which I've been reading a bit about lately ( Read more... )

When I kept a diary in England, in my youth, I used to write it in Swedish, and then make code names for all the people I wrote about, so that no-one wouldn't be able to pick out their names if they found it and had a peep. I had completely forgotten about that when I started keeping this LJ. And then I saw kassie_opia doing it, and thought, "hey..." Because ( Read more... )

Yesterday, my packet of soapnuts arrived in the mail. pnr told me that her mother had bought some, and they appeared to work really well. It's not only environmentally friendly, it's also beneficial to small third-world farmers. Sounds a bit too good to be true, doesn't it? I just had to order some to try. I have laundry time tomorrow evening, so then ( Read more... )