Mystery Yarn Parcel
My Mystery Yarn Parcel arrived from Jillz and it's wonderful! Pictures tomorrow.
Alison Hawke
Haiku III
Working on the socks
promised for Sehlat's birthday,
knitting down the bones. (*)
(* Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg is one of the first books on writing I picked up five years ago, and I still go back to it. I think I'd prefer my novels
Haiku week!
Five syllables first,
then seven, then five again.
Join the haiku week!
I'm amazed! Who else can we ensnare for Haiku Week? Look at all these haiku writers!
* Norma
* Sehlat
* Nightmare
* Hubby
* Kim
* Rachel
* Mark
* Nathania
* Marcia
* At The Green Frog
* Michelle
Apologies if I've missed
Haiku
I dared Norma to try a week of haiku with me. Haiku are snapshots, five syllables on the first line, seven on the second, and five on the last line. They're easier than sonnets, where you have a rhythm pattern as well as a rhyme pattern to follow.
Journal keeping course assignment #1
I'm posting this here because I'm the only one in class who had the book ahead of time (Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal by Alexandra Johnson) so everyone else is running a week behind. I hate being first to post. I had my first
Grab Bag
Autumn Knitty is out, and the first pattern to catch my eye is the Hallowig. This could be so many things! Put in a fringe to make a punk Mohawk, make it in grey as a battle helmet, knit it in toxic green with tentacles as an alien head. I
Met Office upgrades
Met office unveils supercomputer.
The Met Office is celebrating 150 years by unveiling a new supercomputer which they predict will put them at the forefront of weather forecasting. It will allow meteorologists to provide more accurate advice to the government and the public in the face of increasingly extreme weather
Genesis inbound
Genesis probe heads home to Earth
The Genesis probe, which left Earth in 2001 to gather particles blown off the Sun,
returns its cargo on Wednesday. It will eject a capsule that will enter Earth'satmosphere at 40,000km/h (24,000mph) before slowing, with the help of a
Downfall
Once upon a time there was a drink called Mountain Dew that tasted of citrus and was the exact colour of Ford Premium Engine Coolant. Dew was virulently caffienated, but it mattered not as a decaffeinated version was available. Dew Code Red could not ensnare me as nothing beats 7-
UK God Blogs
On my sidebar is one of these buttons:
It's a link to the list I maintain of UK God Blogs, which is blogs written by UK Christians, or Christians residing in the UK. There are currently forty three blogs, put together to satisfy my own curiosity about where