I mentioned it in the post about Selina, my local tunnel boring machine. By the way, I noticed about 2 weeks ago that Selina had been moved inside the large building, and last Monday when I was walking by on the other side of the river I couldn't see her inside the building (that turquoise is easy to spot), and the Tideway website confirms that she ( Read more... )

 
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I am currently on my third four-day weekend, which continues to be an excellent scheme. For this weekend I've been busy blocking the cabled scarf I made for Eugenie at the sourdough bakery, and getting started on my next project, which is a sweater for myself.

The scarf is the second one I've made to this pattern. The first one was attractive, but ( Read more... )

Normal ones, in which no one is about to get murdered

I've been reading that piece about once a month for a year now, and it makes me giggle as hard now as it did the first time.

The other articles in the series are also entertaining, and once you're done with them, you can follow the developing relationship between two medieval monks inventing art.

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I mentioned a while ago that my step goal for the walks was 12,500 steps, and there is a reason for that: a Fitbit step count of 12,500 will earn me 8 "activity" points under my Vitality health insurance, which is the maximum number one can earn in a given day, with a total weekly maximum of 40 points. In autumn of 2018 I finally stopped dithering ( Read more... )

Four weeks ago I was "supposed" to be starting a walking holiday on the South Downs Way, and to console myself I took the Friday off, making it a 4-day weekend with the Monday bank holiday. This was such an enjoyable, relaxing break that I decided to make every 4th weekend a 4-day weekend, and this coming weekend is the first of these. I am really ( Read more... )

For the cushion, I'd finished, blocked and sewed together the dark side several weeks ago, and I finished and blocked the light side the weekend before last. All that remained was to sew together the light side, and then sew the two sides together. I did that on Sunday afternoon. For both sides, the pattern is difficult to discern except in very ( Read more... )

Today I should have been walking the 18 miles between Upper Beeding and Lewes - and then resting on Friday, as 18 miles would have broken my daily walking record. When it became obvious back in March that the holiday wasn't going to happen, I felt fairly philosophical about it, but once we got within a week of last Thursday, when I was due to start ( Read more... )

I had planned to do the hunt on Sunday, but then a miracle occurred at 4.30 on Friday afternoon and I found a delivery slot available from Waitrose. The slot was for Sunday morning and I knew I didn't want any interruptions to the moth hunt, so I shifted it to Saturday.

I started on the schlepping at 7.30 on Saturday, wearing my hiking boots (for ( Read more... )

I hope you have a lovely day that's memorable in all the right ways. I trust you to keep yourself well entertained and properly hydrated!

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