Faster than the speed of blog

You may recall my pathetic little pansy in a can that moped around for a while before finally carking it. Unimpressed by its ineptitude I sprinkled a few cornflower seeds into the can, covered them with the weird growing medium that’s as difficult to get off your fingers as glitter, watered them and went on [...]

Because if they do, I’ll just have to walk

A while ago I made the plans for my first jaunt abroad of the year: a one-night trip to Saarbrücken with Suzy, getting in just in time for the concert, spending the night in a swanky hotel (a free 500ml bottle of water? Oh, you shouldn’t have!) (16 Euros for breakfast? Oh, I don’t think [...]

Disappointment in a can

Just over a fortnight after the only seedling in the can appeared … it keeled over and died. Well, that was fun. So much for “Pansy Watch”. I’d even made it its own category, so there’s gratitude for you. That can was meant to contain 8% seeds to 92% growing medium. The distributors of the [...]

Snowball hat

So that’s another hat off the needles and into my Etsy store. I had some white yarn and some silly white frondy stuff that I’d been eyeing up for a while and finally cast on for a hat a few days ago. I only have enough patience to knit a couple of inches with the [...]

Wandering in Kent

I would have posted this earlier, but electricity got in my way. You see, there was a nice big power surge at John’s office which blew out a few power supplies (great, thanks!). One of the power supplies took care of his server and so I couldn’t get hold of the video in which I [...]

Scientifically proven to save lives. Maybe.

As with so many things I want to just get on and do, it really didn’t take too long to finish this little project.
That’s right, a mere year and three months after I found this warning sign on a visit to Norfolk, I’ve finally cleaned up the image and put the design on a variety [...]

Living the part

When John and Sam were here at the weekend we played Articulate, at first following a version of the rules, then when we’d been round the board once, we made up our own game with the cards. Being someone who would be unable to talk were my hands to be cut off, I was challenged [...]