Things to watch out for in 2007 (part 2)

Cheese rolling in Gloucestershire, UK Cheese rolling's origins are hazy to say the least. A common presumption is that the masochistic frolic began as a pagan festival hundreds of years ago - a celebration of the onset of summer. Other theories have it relating to age-old fertility rights,

Things to watch out for in 2007 (part 1)

Lemon Festival in Menton, France For dozens of years, the lemon festival delights thousands of people come from all parts of the world. The Lemon became the symbol of the city of Menton.  From the golden citrus parade of floats to the giant citrus decorations in the Biovès gardens.

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

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

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 trend

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