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Perseverance is a virtue
which I would do well to cultivate. I've started knitting tigerfort a jumper (in a rather nice, fawn-coloured alpaca blend; the drawback is that it's a light 4-ply - to go round him, I have 296 stitches!). I started it back in May (the yarn was part of an awfully big lot my mother gave me out of her ginormous stash, and I though something for him might ( Read more... ) -
I *broke* a kitchen knife
Sheared straight through the tang about half a centimetre into the handle. Luckily, the blade stuck in the swede I was chopping. It was only a cheap knife, and a bit light for the job, but still... brassica 1: steel 1. -
#%$@
Well, some #%$@&=^ !*&[ had a fire up next to the allotments a few days ago, and I think he was burning green brambles, because there was a pall of tawny smoke for about quarter of a mile downwind. Aerosols trigger my asthma (doesn't matter what - smoke, steam, cleaning chemicals), so I could hardly walk home. I had trouble watering plants in the ( Read more... ) -
Treating depression
Well, a good palliative, at any rate ( Read more... ) -
Friends
Various people have friended me some time in the past; because I've not quite worked out how LJ works, I've only just noticed this! I have now worked out who you all are IRL and friended back. This is complicated technology. -
Sweet peas!
Yay. There's the first vase-full of them scenting the whole upstairs now. I like having a garden. (If anyone is interested, they're the old-fashioned sort with small flowers.) -
Important scientific discoveries
Muesli is a good deal denser than branflakes
Using a large bowl to volume-measure the former resulted in the following second discovery:
It is possible to get stomach-ache from eating breakfast cereal -
Not the most sensible plan
I decided last night I wanted to knit something. I have squillions of unfinished projects (well, at least six, of which three have become orphaned from either the instructions or the wool!), but I decided to start something new ( Read more... ) -
FROG!
Aaargh. There's one in the greenhouse, and his nibs has just gone out so there's no-one to rescue me. (I really couldn't face going round to the retired couple next door and explaining the situation to them!) So, I'm upstairs with the garden door shut, drinking beer, and trembling. On the plus side, I didn't scream out loud, or drop the pot I ( Read more... ) -
Exploding aubergines, holes in the ground, and murder
Item 1: tigerfort put an aubergine to bake without either cutting off the end, or pricking the skin. It went bang when I turned it over. The oven is a mess ( Read more... )