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the price of success
ok, so I managed to establish a new personal record - for reasons I will not go into now, what was meant to be a small gathering of church and Italian friends last Friday, ended up being a major event of nearly 50 people - for whom I managed to cater a three course hot meal of completely Italian non-stereotypical food (with the exception of ( Read more... ) -
Rheumatologist
Well, the registrar was more useful than the consultant, as it's often the case ( Read more... ) -
of grieving
It has struck me of late how we are culturally unprepared for grieving ( Read more... ) -
Note to self
Dangling oneself down the extension kitchen roof with a sealant gun in one's hands is NOT good for one's neck and shoulder muscles - they lock up the day after! -
smugness
I have just acquired between 18 and 21 meters of pure silk, some of it chinese, for £7. Now I have no excuses to stop procrastinating learning to sew.
crashbarrier, there was quite a lot left in the form of sari's for £2 each in the myton hospice charity shop in cannon park. Also, I have been offered the long term loan of a sewing machine. I shall be making ( Read more... ) -
calling crashbarrier....
Have you come across this?
And given that you live round the corner, even if we don't even manage to meet in person, can I finally convince you to try and make a regular appointment to teach me how to drive a sewing machine? (all previous attempts miserably failed and ended up in tangled thread and crumpled fabric :( ) -
Ok, my turn.... 1st meme ever.
Rather amusing actually.
The first 10: *- Hedya needs a mate. Yep (not sure what mavnn is going to make of this one)
- Hedya needs a little (or a lot) of TLC
- Hedya needs that handle much tighter in the grouphead
- Hedya needs help
- Sensual Hedya needs something more challenging
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feeling somewhat morose
It might be because of the misty weather, which always puts me in a melancholic, introspective state, or just because having had the lurgies dragging on for FAAAR too long has put a damper on it all, but I have to say that I'm feeling rather..... a sad person ( Read more... ) -
calling the_g_man....
help needed from a fellow mathematician who has a much wider understanding of stats than myself: when calculating the std dev of a sample rather than the whole population, WHY on earth do I divide by n-1 rather than n? I know it's a newbie question, but I avoided stats like the plague all of my life, and now I'm forced to teach it... I'd like not ( Read more... ) -
why am I happy to have changed school
Received today from my Head of Department. It would NEVER have happened in this way in my previous school ( Read more... )