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Motivation

It was an accidental purchase. We were in England, in Bournemouth, which is on the south coast, and it got cold. Foolishly I had not brought a coat, not even a summer coat. Summer coats are for when it's too warm for the winter coat, but too cold

VLI Intensive weekend

The first VLI Intensive for this semester is in my living room, lectures on Johannine Literature and Theology all day Saturday and Sunday afternoon/evening. I was planning to break the yarn diet and visit my two favourite yarn stores. Instead, thanks to a dental mishap with some bread this

Girly day

When the Men are away on retreat, what do the ladies do? We bake, shop, visit yarn stores, and have a ball! I love retreats.

Odd things in envelopes

In the mail yesterday there were two chunks of wood. Granted, we are getting quotes for a new fence, but I never thought they'd send samples, two different bits of wood smelling like they've been dunked in something toxic. Happily the cheaper fence seems to be

Civilisation one, Evil ugly plants nil

Fulfilled one of my gardening ambitions by destroying the ugly pampas grass squatting on the corner of our yard. Initial attack with the loppers was followed by a shearing frenzy, some fork work, and finally a good raking. Couldn't evict the roots, so we settled for pouring about

Garden vs Yard

Some people have gardens, others have yards. I tried to call my non-built-on green space a garden, but it just isn't working. There is no garden to it, except for the flower bed with the crocuses. The rest is a weed-infested jungle that I want alternately to prune,

Out of focus?

So is this a techblog, talking about Java software development? Or is it a knitblog, with pictures of work in progress, and finished objects? Or is it a news blog, or a links blog, or a writing blog, or a religion blog, or a journal, or a commentary blog, or

Return of the Jedi

I'm back. Crocuses are blooming, albeit only when I'm not looking at them, the yarn for Sarah's socks just arrived, there's a warm cat asleep on the chair next to me, season 6 of Stargate SG-1 on the telly, and a tin

On break

I'm taking a short blog break. Barring one Blogger Idol post, don't expect to see anything here until March 8th.

Blogger Idol week 5 - Picture This

Did you ever read those photo comic strips in kids magazines? The wily hunter stalks her prey. "Who? Me?" (Play theme for "Jaws" here) "You don't scare me. Besides, there's better prey upstairs" In its lair upstairs, the vicious sock

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