Close of (Christmas) knitting

The Christmas knitting is finished!  The last couple of finished objects for 2006 were socks for Rox and a nose warmer for Martha.  Got the pattern for the nose warmer from Any Singer's Knit Wit, it's just a short-row sock heel.  I skipped the tassel and

I has a book!

My NaNoWriMo book arrived from Lulu today! I'm holding my very own book that I wrote, 140 pages of stuff.  The pages are all black and white, but the cover is in glorious colour, glossy and shiny, with my winner's certificate on the first page, and

You talk, I'll write

Wow.  I met my Tapestries guy today, a gentleman called Vincenz from Germany.  I was vaguely worried that we would have a hard time talking, and boy was I ever wrong!  He talked for an hour straight, fascinating stories about life as a prisoner of war in French and American

Book club

Book club was nerve-wracking Tuesday night.  Eight people had spent a month reading one of my favourite science fiction books, Sundiver by David Brin.  We ended up talking an hour and a half about it.  Some people loved it, some liked it, one didn't like it at all.

Leaving Blighty

BBC News: Brits Abroad.  This is a clickable map of the world with stats about emigration to each area. An estimated 5.5m British people live permanently abroad - almost one in 10 of the UK population. The emigration of British people has happened in cycles over 200 years. The

Published! Sort of...

Ordered a copy of my NaNoWriMo novel through Lulu, who is offering one free printed copy to all NaNoWriMo winners.   You have to start from that link, and go through the whole book creation process, create a PDF with OpenOffice (it rejected the Apple Pages PDF) and pick one of

Themage

One of the handy things about WordPress is the ability to put together (or download) a theme and completely change the whole look of the site.  Hubby built this theme for me, based around a picture of Tierra del Fuego, and I love it!

Knitty and Picot

Knitting morning is tomorrow at Brentwood Borders cafe, 10-12, second Saturday of every month.  If you're in St Louis (and you're female), drop by! Winter Knitty is up, with some very cute patterns.  I liked: * Norberta, a dragon. * Sheldon the turtle with a cute detachable shell,

Rhubarb and Custard

(Rox, you might want to avert your eyes, this is your Christmas present.) I'm not the Yarn Harlot, I can't knit a sock a day.  But for starting late Saturday night and having a day job to do, this one's going pretty well.  It&

Uncertain faith

BBC News: God. Who knows? With religion increasingly polarised, is there any benefit in not knowing if there is a higher power? Mark Vernon - an ex-vicar - explains why agnosticism is his creed. "We are in a period of intense debate about religion. It seems there are believers,