Blogger Idol picks
These are my top picks for Blogger Idol week four, on the theme "Oops!"
* Seasons of Violet
* What in Tarnation?
* ireneQ
* Ian's Messy Desk
Alison Hawke
Blogger Idol week 4 - Oops!
(OK, I skipped weeks two and three, but I'm back on track now.)
The Oops! school of cookery
Anyone can be a jolly good cook. The recipe is simple: one bushel of ability to bluff, and a good supply of cheese sandwiches.
Every potential culinary disaster is an
Oddities
There was about 2 inches of powdery snow on my car Thursday morning. Going to work, I ended up behind a BMW 745i, probably this year's model. It was covered in snow, all the driver did was turn on the wipers and clear a small square in the
Date-iversary
Today is the tenth anniversary of my first date with Hubby. He sent me ten red roses. I love him!
Knit monster
I learned to knit when I was about seven, on green plastic needles using blue wool to make a scarf for one of my toys, a small puppy with floppy ears. Having just completed a sock, I'm looking to do more.
The About.com sock knitting patterns index
Miscellany
Got sick, got better, got sick again, am still sick. Snow on ground, freezing cold office, ice in the air, no sunlight for days on end, temperature below freezing most of the week. Right now 110F/43C heat and wet-blanket humidity of summer sound wonderful.
Pictures of London as it
Disconnect
Turn off, log out, shut down.
A tech veteran is boldly going where few of his friends and colleagues dare follow - he has cut his links to cyberspace and hit the road to find out more about life on the other side of the Digital Divide. For the past
Holey socks Batman!
Confession time: I knit. Not only that, I'm going to teach someone else to knit, starting with a scarf. Tonight I started on my first ever handknitted sock, and it's hard! The four needles are tiny, the wool is like red dental floss, and I seem
Blogger idol week one: "The 80s"
The big event in the 1980s for me was moving from the new house to That House.
The 1980s was when we moved from Stowemarket, a small village in Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. We bought That House in 1981. It seemed like a decent house
Circle Journey
Circle Journey is an interesting idea: you send a small notebook back and forth between two people like an ongoing letter. I mailed one to my sister today, should arrive in about a week.