Parentals are returned. They apparently have a hundred pictures of cherry blossom. I have managed to avoid these so far. I was quite sociable last night. Go me
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It is a bit worrying, though, the outlay to get started when I don't know how it would go. I may just wait for the next class - there is a two-day thing in July, I think, or once-a-week starts again in September. I do have a number of crafts that I can do in the meantime.
It seems like a thing you can read up around and plan for a bit and sometimes that is fun although nobody could have as good a name as Manly Banister. I was looking for the Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding for non-mad amounts recently as it is out of print but instead got some things on ethics and another typesetting book. I have no plans at all to typeset even slightly unless I do some of Yak's poems in TeX but that makes it more fun to read in a weird way.
I have still not bought any proper bookbinding stuff but am instead shamelessly borrowing Ken's and Tim's. It is not just the outlay it is the fear that acting like I can do it properly and it is worth spending money on it will jinx me somehow. I need a scalpel since using other people's does blunt them awfully but I think I would leave that at the library for now as, well, yes. Maybe you don't need all the Stuff to get a feel for bits of it and could get some things you could always rework into something different? There are, um, many uses for lead.
Hmmm. I think I will get a book and start the reading phase. Also I might buy an ebook I have seen about making chainmaille jewellery. Yes, that's how they spell it. Or I could leave it, because Lara and I start jewellery class this week. And I do have a bunch of knitting planned. Hmmm.
The flat is upstairs and fairly small, and Cruikshanks likes to wander outside, and hunt, and such, and I don't know how he would feel about a litterbox (but I know the idea does not thrill me, because I am quite squeamish about such things.)
Ahhh, yes, I can definitely see that situation causing a lot of yowling. Probably on both your parts. (I keep *telling* myself I don't have pets because I live in no-pets apartments, but really, I don't want to clean up their messes.)
Yeah. If I have to, I can do it - just like I got used to living with spiders and all kinds of creepy-crawlies - but I'd really rather not. And he is an outside cat.
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It is a bit worrying, though, the outlay to get started when I don't know how it would go. I may just wait for the next class - there is a two-day thing in July, I think, or once-a-week starts again in September. I do have a number of crafts that I can do in the meantime.
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I have still not bought any proper bookbinding stuff but am instead shamelessly borrowing Ken's and Tim's. It is not just the outlay it is the fear that acting like I can do it properly and it is worth spending money on it will jinx me somehow. I need a scalpel since using other people's does blunt them awfully but I think I would leave that at the library for now as, well, yes. Maybe you don't need all the Stuff to get a feel for bits of it and could get some things you could always rework into something different? There are, um, many uses for lead.
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Hmmm. I think I will get a book and start the reading phase. Also I might buy an ebook I have seen about making chainmaille jewellery. Yes, that's how they spell it. Or I could leave it, because Lara and I start jewellery class this week. And I do have a bunch of knitting planned. Hmmm.
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You couldn't take Cruikshanks with you to flat? Bad idea?
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The flat is upstairs and fairly small, and Cruikshanks likes to wander outside, and hunt, and such, and I don't know how he would feel about a litterbox (but I know the idea does not thrill me, because I am quite squeamish about such things.)
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