Mama Says Om: 20 Things

The theme this week at Mama Says Om is “20 Things”.
Here are my 20:

The route to a good deed

From Christina’s post about her night out, I went via the comments to Rebecca’s site, where I read her post about knitting things for the Dulaan Project to keep people in Mongolia warm.
As I’m a total child, who always wants what someone else has, or to be doing what they are doing, my thoughts immediately [...]

Strumpets who lunch

Yesterday was Let’s-go-back-to-Zizzi-because-Helen-didn’t-get-dessert-last-time-day. It was a lunch date for me, Lauren, Helen and Suzy. Suzy lives within walking distance of the restaurant and was thus naturally the last to arrive. Lauren is a grownup and was thus the first to arrive.
As is customary, we talked and talked and talked. So what’s the news? Lauren’s got [...]

Welcome to our house

Thursday’s random facts #4

* My big toes curl up at the end
* I’m a sponge: if you have a habit, expression or tic, I will pick it up
* One of my favourite memories is of the night Mum, Dad, John and I spent outside watching a meteor shower
* Unnecessary abbreviations in speech annoy the crap out of me. [...]

Where are my laurels?

I need to rest.
The photo I took of my french knitting last night has made it into Flickr’s “interestingness” pages, apparently peaking at #1. It’s very difficult trying to predict what might capture someone’s imagination. I just wanted to change Dreamdust’s header, so I took a couple of shots of the knitting … and [...]

Someone took my competence

Just because this gives me something to blog, does not make it amusing. The Olds are out at a quiz tonight, leaving me to fend for myself. I had a nice dinner of chicken kiev, fried potato and baked beans planned.
The kiev needed 30 minutes at Gas 6, so I put it into the [...]

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