Phoning it in

To sum up, the 7 Days self-portrait project starts on Saturday, 8th March 2008. Come and join us! Bring your friends! Hell, bring your husband, he and I might hit it off.

I like 25 gallon butts and I cannot lie

See what I did there? That’s a reference to popular culture.
I went from a black rubbish sack full of decomposing leaves to a little silver plastic bin into which I put my prized horse poo, moss and leave and what not. However that bin was soon full and I began to set my sights on [...]

Next time I’ll wear my hat, gloves and maybe a layer of grease

I don’t like leaving this long between posts, but I’ve been busy and somewhat knackered this past week – and not just from the forward rolls and cartwheels. God, just thinking about those makes my back feel even more scrunchy.
Normally I work from home, which involves rolling down the stairs to my office at what [...]

Rolling

Yeah, I don’t know either.
But I was home alone and it seemed like the only thing to do at the time.
Edited to add: Ye gads, my muscles hurt. Apparently there’s something to that whole “warm-up” malarky. In that one should do it before arsing about, especially if one hasn’t arsed about like that in fifteen [...]

Gauge is for sissies

So I made yet another hat. I’ve made several in the past few weeks. This one keeps my ears beautifully warm. And my eyes. I suppose that’ll be down to using bigger needles than usual. Heh. Maybe I’ll turn it upside down and call it a bag. Or an ark.

Garlic

The garlic continues to grow and I now have the full twenty-one plants above ground, five of which were random cloves that had started sprouting in the fridge. It’ll be interesting to see how the final harvest of those compares to that from the cultivated cloves. I’ve been trying to get a photo of the [...]

Some of this is true

I needed stamps, so I got my bike out of the garage, putting my purse and letters into the little box on the back. The box that now smells of horse poo. To get to the post office I have to cross the main road. So I looked left and a few vehicles were coming [...]