I had computer grief after getting back from Greece, with the motherboard having to be replaced twice in the space of 10 days, and am still trying to get back on course with work and related admin, so I'm afraid I'm not reading anything, including LJ friends' pages at the moment ( Read more... )

I was tagged by
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Track no. 12 on practice CD

Forward step R foot rolling L shoulder back
Same with step L
Step R

4x snake arms

R arm up, L horizontal, 4x drops L hip
L arm up, R horizontal, 4x drops R hip
Repeat

Rotate anticlockwise 4x to face front again:
Leading with R foot
Arms to R, forward step and R hip out,
Arms to L, backward step and R hip out
NB: STEP ONTO R FOOT ( Read more... )

Ho hum, time as always is lacking to make entries here.

Meddyg and I went to Canterbury to visit younger daughter,
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but here it is:

COMBAT CARDS 2.1
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OK, I succumbed and got hold of this new knitting magazine that teaches you from scratch. Tonight, I made my first attempt, which has brought back to me the reason I never got far with knitting - casting on. Armed with the DVD, and the photos in the magazine, it has taken me over one hour to cast on 20 stitches. And I still need 9 more *whine*  I'm ( Read more... )

I thought Georgette Heyer only wrote soppy historical romances, so I was surprised to find a mystery book by her. It is very much the same style as Agatha Christie. The central characters are the upper and upper middle classes in a small English village in the immediate post-WW2 era. All are very jolly hockey sticks and inveterate snobs, coping ( Read more... )

Went to see this on my own tonight, because it had turned out impossible to go together with Meddyg. I travelled in by a combination of car and tram because that enabled me to avoid hassling for a car park in the city centre, but also avoided me having to walk back along small streets from the bus stop to my house alone in the dark. It felt odd at ( Read more... )

Meme: 10 Things I've Done You Probably Haven't (pinched from
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Paul the gardner has just left after finishing the last of the jobs in my garden. It's taken months, because he is in demand, but he's made a beautiful job of it. He plus his assistant spent two full days weeding, tidying and pruning everything last September. Today he filled in the gaps with lots of flowering shrubs, as well as a climbing rose and ( Read more... )