I'm trying to work out how it's possible that a vegetarian who cooks a meal from fresh ingredients pretty much every night can manage to fail to achieve this ( Read more... )

The minister who was speaking at my Nan's funeral was awful ( Read more... )

Heard a couple of days ago that somebody I was in hospital with in December just died ( Read more... )

Interesting thing about Lent that hadn't occurred to me before it was pointed out:
The purpose of the ban on milk and eggs is to allow new born animals an uninterrupted supply of their mother's milk in the first few weeks and to enable a good number of chicks to be born to provide poultry for next year.

We actually made it out for the whole of the combat session on Sunday without the rain driving us away ( Read more... )

Today I have sore legs from drumming ( Read more... )

Youngest turned eighteen on Thursday ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to do much at combat practice for the last few weeks due to the joy of infected wounds, but this week I did manage to do more and had a good session ( Read more... )

So today I finish up taking anti-inflamatories, and I finished the antibiotics last week. Post-operative infection seems to have cleared up.
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So, one of the topics I've been asked to write more about is swords.
This is my sword. Late fifteenth to early sixteenth century English/Flemish style. The pommel is based on one shown on the Trinity Alterpiece in Edinburgh ( Read more... )