At last, I've finished my big crochet project and it's safely with its owner! Here is James the Red Engine:

( Picture )

Here's the full card that I posted a snippet from last month. The baby it's intended for has been born at last, hope to be able to meet her in a week or so. :)

I'm really glad it's the weekend. This morning some Microsoft Access reports mysteriously stopped working; it turns out it was literally because I'd looked at them strangely.

( Crocheted card... )

Isn't this cute? I made it to go on a welcome card for our friends' baby, due any week now. As a size reference, the rainbow's about 3.5cm across.

It just needs the edges neatening and a bit of pressing to flatten out the clouds. I'll post a picture of the finished card when it's all done.

( Crocheted rainbow )

We got back last night from spending a fantastic 8 days in the Isle of Man. It is such a beautiful place, and I could go on for ages about the incredible variety of things to see and do in such a small place - wonderful sea views, mountains, historical sites etc. The pace of life there is perfect for a relaxed holiday - for example, to travel ( Read more... )

Well, so far thirty doesnt feel any different from 29 ( Read more... )

Post-weekend comedown today after spending a fantastic couple of days in Edinburgh for a wedding. We had a wonderful time and drank, ate and danced lots - would you expect any less from a Scottish wedding? I caught up with old acquaintances that haven't seen for the best part of 10 years and met so many lovely new people, a lot of whom I didn't ( Read more... )

Here is my 0.5 seconds of television fame. We were in the audience for a recording of Pointless back in December, which was finally broadcast yesterday. It's currently available on iPlayer here. The's an audience shot at about 1 min 22s and if you look very closely you can see me in the top right corner. So yes, not exactly worldwide fame but it ( Read more... )

Happy new year! I haven't been able to get onto LJ for days; so glad you're all back.

2013 is going to be a good year for me. I've decided I'm going to (re-)learn to crochet, visit Germany and Switzerland, and turn 30. How about you?

Last time there was a Thursday 23rd August, I was getting married. :)

It's been a fairly busy couple of months. The university exam period happened, so most of my time's been spent keeping track of around 4000 pieces of Maths work so that they got appropriately marked, checked, scaled, confirmed by the appropriate people. It maybe doesn't sound thrilling, but there's definitely a lot of job satisfaction from being ( Read more... )