The colourless nature of my current fibre work is beginning to get me down. I wrote about my need for colour over at Sanday Spinners. Then I sat down to work on my (white) doily and I spotted some dropped stitches. I now have to unpick it, stitch-by-stitch for around 20 rows. Now this, this …
Monthly archives: September 2013
A Brand New Week
I have just hung seven white and natural cotton or linen shirts on the line. Now, I am not certain how many neutral shirts a body actually needs but I do think that perhaps seven is a little over the top. The wardrobe rail having collapsed, I took the opportunity of weeding my clothes and …
Cottoning on
I have eaten approximately four onion bhajis too many. You don’t need to know that, but it is my excuse for sitting here without moving. I do believe that I have perfected my bhaji recipe now and they are even better than those that we remember with fondness at the Karachi café. I got to …
OMG
OH.MY.GOODNESS Really. Nothing else to say. Words are insufficient. Click, gaze, read.
HELP!
I have the entire contents of a triple wardrobe distributed about my bedroom. The hanging rail on my side collapsed and I am taking the opportunity to sort the whole thing out, ditch some unused clothes etc. It looks like being a whole day job, if we want to be able to go to bed …
Winter Wallowing
Some reading for this winter. I could not resist this offer on a package of 8 books from the Gollancz 50. Some of them, I have read; some of them, I have on my bookshelf under different covers. The package price was still cheap, if only to pay for the ones that I am not …