I am increasingly conscious that I have not put anything onto LJ/DW for nearly two months now - despite having had more than enough blogging material.

( Craftwork )

I have been extremely neglectful of this platform - should have reported on Draco's last two agility competitions (one KC, one local - actually at the local horse carriage driving school), in neither of which he exactly covered himself in glory (but at least he didn't abscond ( Read more... )

I am so far behind in my posting schedule (stop laughing) that I am unlikely to get around to properly reviewing the films I've been to see, my craftwork (though that's scheduled for another place), and a week's holiday in Yeovil ( Read more... )

Reveals are up on ACD-Holmesfest and I can lay official claim to An Unexpected Visitor. This was originally intended as a long version of the 'Netherlands Sumatra Company' case mentioned in canon, and I had a fair amount written (and some even plotted) before running out of time (mostly because I had a deadline for May's 'Daily Deviant' piece, ( Read more... )

Busy week, well, except for Bank Holiday Monday when we didn’t do anything but walk the dogs. As usual there were a lot of strange dogs being walked so Draco had to stay on his lead for most of the walk - not his favourite thing ( Read more... )

I am currently using my old DW blog (Ina_Jean) for posts on knitting and crochet linked to Ravelry. This means keeping track of where I am posting what, and logging into and out of the two DW accounts ( Read more... )

Busy day today. We took the dogs out for their morning walk via the polling station (which has been moved from the village hall which is part of a building project, to the church hall). Lil held them while I went in then we swapped. Well behaved dogs are allowed in polling stations but our pair do not qualify. Though we did once take a cat (in ( Read more... )

One of the things about watching the more obscure Freeview channels is that you get to see obscure adverts. The latest X-Box 'Halo' game ad has a voice-over piece of poetry that I've been trying to identify for a while, but have mostly seen when my hands are full of crochet rather than internet. I tracked it down this morning, and it turns out to ( Read more... )

I am still trying to either reinstate my original LJ layout (which was pretty basic) or find one that doesn't (a ) allow overlarge pictures to break the page and (b) let me see more than 10 posts at a time. No luck yet ( Read more... )

The thing about being retired is that bank holidays sneak up on you. Mostly this means that the dogs have to be walked on leads as their usual haunts are full of families and horsepersons who do not know them ( Read more... )