It's Spoonflower's foray into fashion publishing and I only just squeaked in there at the very end (with my bicycle wheels design) after all the big page spreads with numerous designs from the kool kids. The online version is here but there's allegedly a physical version too (which may yet arrive).

... not!

It's an "explanation" through the medium of interpretive art (rather than dance or words) but su_g understood straight away that you begin with icicles ... and a huge workforce of tiny snowpeople.

... because one of my imaginary friends moved over there years ago (from LJ and some other sites which are now extinct or hopelessly mutated) and plurk has finally changed its previous offensive sign-up where it insisted that people have a stereotypical gender etc.

I'm still setting up home over there but I possibly have enough squiddly things for

Back when my kitchen doorstep mini-porch had a "scary" slope down to the lawn, I used to have a doorstep frog - which spent much of its time lurking under the shelf of the back door frame. The current replacement pair of brick steps probably make the porch a lot less accessible to frogs. But instead I now seem to have a small brown fluffy feathery ( Read more... )

The EU Referendum has been one of the more dramatic examples of the fundamental, even fatal, flaw in democracy - viz the assumption that humans will be well-informed and intelligent and humane enough to vote the right way on important issues. Unfortunately, too many people are catastrophically ill-informed, insufficiently intelligent and stupidly ( Read more... )

A rat wandered nonchalantly onto my back porch this morning while I was topping up the blackbird. It took a while for the rat to decide whether or not to act scared but, after bimbling about a bit, it eventually scrambled over the low wall into the shrubbery in mock-panic. Many critters regard me as not a very credible threat ( Read more... )

There were a few very small and not-so-spiky things too* but the not-so-small and very spiky thing was a hodgeheg! :-D ( Read more... )

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Some weeks ago (possibly as much as a couple of months), it became apparent that I had two mice living outside the kitchen door rather than just the usual one. They were slightly different colours etc and eventually I saw both at the same time ( Read more... )

These chocolate bars are kept on the lowest shelf at the supermarket and typically right at the back behind other things. So, to get them out, I had to bring them past my face. In the process, one of them flicked out its sealed plastic end, which had presumably previously been trapped against an adjacent bar, and sliced into my face on the edge of ( Read more... )