The Mums Puzzle Hunt began at midday Melbourne time, while we were fast asleep. Mr L trotted off to print the first set of five puzzles while I was still fighting the duvet for supremacy on this day. We solved two puzzles before breakfast. An admittedly-late breakfast. Since when, we have made very little progress. …
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A funny old day
It has been a funny old day today. I did pick up the gusset in Mr plumbum’s sock, and have knitted a few rounds on it, but haven’t found much time for it today. Instead I got to worrying about backups. Backup strategies were discussed and were mostly found wanting. I need a system that …
*scream*
Those curtains that I dyed the other week? The newly-green ones with the pink dotted lines? I finally got around to putting them up, and they looked very nice in the East window. We turned our attention to the South window, where the longer pair hangs. Whoa! Curtains very much in mid-air! The long curtains …
Stats
Why the heck would anyone be wanting to search for “mr plumbum” ? Leave him alone. He’s my mr plumbum and you can’t have him! :-p Stats are fascinating, are they not? This is a regular search string: “span spun spinned” I looked it up once. Given the number of hits on this blog for …
Currently Reading
The library van manages to furnish me with some interesting reading these days. The fiction shelves leave much to be desired, but the creative soul is well catered for by the Orkney Libraries service. This time around I have been delighted by a couple of books that I picked up in fairly arbitrary fashion, and …
A White Easter
Mildly surprised this morning to wake to a light covering of snow. Insufficient to hide the grass completely, but more snow than we have seen since we moved to Orkney. I woke from a dream of somebody close, and felt their distance terribly when I had to let them go on waking. It was so …