(With apologies to those who've seen it else-net ( Read more... )

http://taliskimberley.bandcamp.com/track/clever-men

Just to let you know, a newish song up on BC for you. This one's been out in the wild for the last few months.

If you like it, share it onwards... that's always the biggest favour you can do me!

Thank you.

I'm reaching the point where my fingers now go off on their own while I play the concertina, and trying to think about where they should be slows them down. Except where they falter and tangle, and go 'hey, brain? Help us out!' and then the thinking comes in again ( Read more... )

Has anyone out there got experience of running a wormery? I'm getting interested in trying this, and there's a handy little space outside the back door, but I'm just at the asking-around stage, not to mention the looking-around-the-place-to-see-what-could-be-turned-into-one stage ( Read more... )

Too much has been happening to keep up with here, though I will try - in the meantime, here's my take on the current state of the country: I rather hope Clegg chooses not to choose. He doesn't *have* to deal with anyone. Cameron can try running a minority Govt if he likes; he's not put enough on the table to deserve LibDem support, imho ( Read more... )

C has found the tablet frustrating, and ultimately has gone back to analogue formats... so his Wacom Bamboo Tablet is here unloved and he would rather have money towards his driving lessons fund. Which is fair enough ( Read more... )

Back from a few days away, lovely break in Dorset in a B&B. May update properly later. Snook in a giglet and snared another. Home to manymanymany lists of things that Need to be Done. Must spin those plates harder ( Read more... )

Is there a tactful and inoffensive way to ask for less, not more, this Christmas season ( Read more... )

Good wishes for E, please, who went to the doctor yesterday to discuss her haemoglobin and the next thing we know the GP has arranged for an immediate blood transfusion, so we dash home to hurl things into bags and then go off to Great Western Hospital ( Read more... )

I got the xmas BBC Good Food mag, which came with a calendar. Big enough to write stuff in, opens to A3-ish per month, seasonal recipe on each month. Surplus to requirements here. Any takers?