Weekend bits

[bend_gules]

This weekend I fought the sloth - well, once I'd gotten out of bed, I did.

Saturday we went to see Elizabeth I and her people, exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. Very worthwhile, even if you're not a 16th c mavin. Attended with Kat, who was a PS4 widow for the weekend

Comments

[suelet]

I often lose a great many weekend days to just that problem..."what to DOOO...." because you just can't decide which is the highest/most achievable priority.
Mrf.

I keep meaning to check out Manda Scott....thanks for this.

[m_nivalis]

Thanks for the book rec - I must check these out!

It's rare to find an author who incorporates a meaningful spiritual experience into the story
Have you read anything by Jo-Graham? She's one of my favourite writers, both for her characters and her deep-rooted sense of history. Her Numinous World series deals with a "god-touched" soul reincarnated life after life. The first four books are stand-alones (Black Ships - after the fall of Troy; Hand of Isis - Cleopatra's reign and fall of Alexandria; Stealing Fire - the aftermath of Alexander the Great's death and founding of Alexandria; Ravens of Falkenau - short stories ranging from Ancient Egypt to the 1910s), but the 18th century stories is a sub-series (about Elza/Ida St. Elme going from a Paris Hilton-like socialite (minus the money) to a Judi Dench-like M in Directoriat and Napoleonic France). Review of the latest, The Emperors AgentShe's also written with Melissa Scott a series about an aviation team who are also members of a small occult lodge. The books are set in the 1920s-40s, and again

[ormsweird]

I've made bath bombs, the trick I found to getting them to stick together was spraying in witch hazel (distilled? from the chemists anyway) in a small spray bottle. When it started holding together in clumps, then I moulded it.

[bend_gules]

Interesting: the soap kitchen says just spray with water. I think it was the light spraying I missed from this step - tried using wet hands, and that was too much water.

http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/recipe_bath_bomb.htm

Wonder what witch hazel brings to the mix?

disappearing days

[larmer]

"On Sunday I wrestled with my usual weekend blahs: have loads to do, can't settle on a task, sit and have a cup of tea til I figure it out, half the day disappears while I argue with myself. I sometimes wonder if anyone else loses days this way."

Yes. Me.