Writing Rituals

BBC News: ' Writuals' - scribes reveal daily routines. Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds at the bottom of the garden.  Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout the day to get maximum light.  Dahl even had

Colourwork class

I've been having a hard time with the Pirate mittens.  My motivation's in the ditch and it feels like I'm chewing through a haystack in a pair of false teeth.  So I took a colour knitting lesson at Knitty Couture.  I was planning to

Declarations of intent

A friend at work sent me a copy of this: John Cleese's Letter to the USATo the citizens of the United States of America, in light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of

Pocket change

BBC News: Brass in pocket. The backs of the one, two, five, 10, 20, and 50 pence pieces and the pound coins have been redesigned.  The main change in the design of competition winner Matthew Dent is that the coins all feature different parts of a single image, the Royal

FO: The Hooded Bun

Yarn for my Eris cardigan will take a week or so to arrive, so I made a bunny with a hoodie. Pattern: Fuzzy Mitten Bunny with Hoodie Yarn: Morehouse Merino 3-ply and Reynolds Odyssey Duration: 31st March to 4th April The Fuzzy Mitten pattern is great.  I couldn'

Chocolate and vanilla

I'm spinning about two feet of Jacob each session (one of each colour) and this stuff is fun!  It's going to be self-striping three-ply yarn, hopefully around sport weight.  The roving smells a little sheepy and it's very easy to spin, I

A Challenger to Quantum Theory

New Scientist: Quantum randomness may not be random. At its deepest level, nature is random and unpredictable. That, most physicists would say, is the unavoidable lesson of quantum theory. Try to track the location of an electron and you'll find only a probability that it is here or

Climbing Everest

That big project I mentioned last post?  Hubby suggested I knit a cardigan.  It's been years since I knit something of that magnitude, and there's the small matter of the Eternal Sweater still hanging around (13 years in, half a sleeve to go).  We looked at

FO: Vinnland Hill socks

Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Solids Pattern: Vinnland with Sherman heel and toe, and decrease cast off Duration: 15th February to March 20th 2008. Dark yarn when the skies are grey does not brighten my mood, but it wasn't my place to choose for this pair.  The pattern

Beta readers needed

I've been working on an urban fantasy story for our post-NaNoWriMo group.  I'm looking for constructive criticism.  "This stinks" is not constructive criticism, it's just rude.  "This stinks because of X, Y, and Z" is better, but still rude.