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I had an Etsy order to run down to the postbox, and amongst all the flowers I was taking pictures of, I found a random rugby ball centrally placed on a hedge. Okay, why not. I presume someone had found it dropped on the pavement and moved it to where it was more visible, much like people around the village… Read more »

I woke up this morning and came downstairs, as you do. I put my arm down on my desk, and immediately whipped it back up. Hrm, mysterious scratches, where did they come from? And then I found another lower on my arm by the same method of putting weight on it. Sigh? Sigh. I mean, I *could* have scratched it… Read more »

In the finest of British traditions, our main holiday destination is the Isle of Wight. It’s where Z and his parents went, and where his brother and brother’s wife still go (but not the same village as us, oh no ¬¬). When we went last time, we spent a few days at the UK’s oldest theme park, Blackgang Chine. They… Read more »

The cabochons I ordered to do jewellery science showed up today. Now I just have to wait for the pendants themselves, which… Monday? Tuesday? I look forward to being able to do science, even if I’m going to have to do it upstairs so Z can breathe. Past that, fog head from pollen head, not doing much, that sort of… Read more »

I have gotten past the gusset here on sock one, and now I feel like I am going somewhere with it. I don’t know if I will be able to finish this first sock this weekend, but I’m feeling mildly optimistic that it’s plausible, if I don’t get Distracted by Things™®. Distracted is the word for how the day was,… Read more »

I took this picture of myself a few minutes ago, and noted with delight that it looks like I’ve got a fairly wide slash of silver about halfway back from my forehead. While the amount of silver in my hair is legit increasing on the daily, I don’t have anything that defined yet. Nonetheless, it delights me, and for that… Read more »

La, c’est un sock. However one says sock in French… c’est une chaussette, according to Google Translate. My French was swallowed whole and spat up piecemeal after my time learning Russian, so while I can still string together really basic sentences, my vocabulary desperately needs rebuilding. Ditto for Russian after years of little use, but *anyways*. I’m tired today. I accidentally… Read more »

I’ve had a hankering to do some nail polish pendants for a long time, and finally decided to order a few bits to try my hand at it. I don’t know how good or bad it’s gonna come out, but I’m pleased that I’m taking the plunge. I’ve got something special in mind for the first lot… but we’ll see… Read more »

Today has been a lot of doing nothing, and a bit of knitting. I’m almost done with the heel flap and turn on this sock, and hope to get it done before I head up to bed in half an hour. Yeah, been doing this and that and flapping about, and it’s suddenly almost bedtime. At least I’m approaching it… Read more »

And by ‘dressed up’, I mean ‘wearing jeggings that look like proper jeans instead of PJs’. But that’s also in part ’cause they’re clean and I need to do laundry, ha ha. They’re super comfy though! I already had two pairs, but I realised that I needed to suck it up and buy some in a smaller size. I’ve not… Read more »