Settling in
Sehlat sent me an email last night saying "Your blog's disappeared!" It's all back now. Sehlat gets a gold star for finding the blog in the few minutes after I renamed the old directory and before I created the new one while I was
Alison Hawke
Woo Ha!
Got my forty thousand words! Hubby is fetching Buffy season seven from his car! Yay!
Recipe: Kedgeree
I had a recipe book on the counter while I was making kedgeree Monday night and what I made bore no resemblance to the book, the recipe's been wildly modified. So this recipe is my version of kedgeree. It's comfort food, feel-good food, Anglo-Indian food. You
Bribery!
This is so wrong I don't have words to describe it.
From: Hubby
Date: Tuesday November 16th
I have the *perfect* carrot on the end of a stick for you for reaching 40,000 words (7229 words from now, according to your blog, so, 4 days hence...)BUFFY
National smoking ban
Bhutan to stub out tobacco sales. Excellent news!
The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has decided to ban all tobacco products from Wednesday, a government notification says. Shops, hotels, restaurants and bars selling tobacco products have been ordered to dispose of existing stocks before 17 December. The tobacco ban will
Good things
* Knitting morning at my house.
* Surprising Rox at knitting morning with a birthday cake.
* Starting the hemp socks.
* Breaking thirty thousand words on my novel on Saturday.
* Missy moving from Florida back to St Louis, and turning up in church this morning.
* The water being back on at the house
Stitch 'n Bitch Nation
My month has officially been made. A copy of "Stitch 'n Bitch Nation" is on its way to me from Debbie Stoller, because one of the knitting tips I sent her is in the book! I was planning to get the book for the Union Jack sweater,
*Snort*
Apparently the war on the Ivory Coast isn't affecting business quite so badly, anyone wanting a 15% share of "Fiftenn million,seven hundred thousand United State Dollars" should wake up and smell the 419 scam. Spelling errors have been left in this noxious piece of spam
If you can't be polite...
I've deleted three knitblogs from my blogroll because of the viciousness of their political posts, coincidentally they were all Democrats. Happily I've found others that are capable of holding a civil conversation even with people they disagree with.
I strongly object to statements on knitblogs about
Finally, some knitting
I'm planning to work on the hemp socks tomorrow as I'm off work. I'll be using the size 2 dpns, even though it's supposed to be sport weight yarn and I do fingering weight on the size 2s. I think the yarn