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Seasons Greetings
Wishing you all, whether your celebrate at this time of year or not, all the best!
Here are some of our Christmas celebrations:
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Three Questions: December 11 to 20
12 DEC: Gingerbread House Day: Have you ever made a gingerbread house?
No, but one year when I was working for an organisation which provided supported living accommodation for young adults with learning disabilities we held a Christmas jumper day, which included decorating gingerbread people with Christmas jumpers which was great fun.
17 DEC: A ( Read more... ) -
The Friday Five: Past and Present
Today's TheFridayFive questions
1. What did you want to be when you grew up?
An astronaut or someone working in that field
2. Did you follow through? If not, what happened?
I grew up! I quickly moved away from the sciences
3. Is your life turning out the way you thought it would when you were a kid? If not, is it better or worse?
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Three Questions: December 1 to 10
1 DEC: Antarctica Day: What’s your favorite polar animal?
Penguins!!!
3 DEC: Giving Tuesday: When is the last time you were generous with time, money, or something else?
Yesterday - I gave a lady a lift to see her pseudo-granddaughter's Christmas play, which saved her having to spend a very long time on the bus.
8 DEC: Pretend to be a Time ( Read more... ) -
Twelve Days of Christmas
Long term readers of my journal will know that every year I offer to write ficlets for friends for posting on the Twelve Days of Christmas, so starting on 26 December and running through to 6 January. And that is my intention this year as well.
Everyone is welcome to make a suggestion, with fandom, character(s) and prompt, although given the way ( Read more... ) -
Three Questions: November 21 to 30
Or - five very short answers!
24 NOV: Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day: Do you have a unique (or unusual) talent?
There is no-one who has quite the same selection of attributes as me, for which I suspect the world is rather grateful!
25 NOV: International Hat Day: Do you have a favorite hat?
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Writing - November 2024
This month I've written 9.5K words, maybe slightly more as I'm still working on my story for Event Central So my total for the year with one month to go is 132K, which means I will easily reach my goal of 135K. Hooray!
In the end I wrote three drabbles/double drabbles/triple drabbles or Seasons of Drabbles Admiring the View (Discworld - Sam ( Read more... ) -
Crafts - November 2024
Although most of my cross stitch has been of Christmas cards - I'll do a separate post for them next month - I have been continuing with the monthly StitchALong
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Books - November 2024
6 books, so 70/75 books for the year, with all the Christmas reads to come!
The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare by G K Chesterton
I'm joining a new (to me) book club and this is the first book - whether I continue with the book club will depend on how the first session (it's online) goes. I was attracted because this was a book I'd been ( Read more... )