The cockatoos have been pruning the liquidambar Again in their quest for seed pods Shearing off the softer tips of branches Dropping them down on deck, Garden, and path, sprays of green On the piles of last year’s discarded leaves … Continue reading Avian Assault
My mind is not always kind to me And sometimes When it has been particularly unruly I take it to see someone who Is qualified to help with unruly minds And I tell this person stories Of what is going … Continue reading #theinternetisforwhinging
The last year and a bit has, quite frankly, been hellish. The unrelenting stress ended up with my immune system doing its best to kill me, I got chronic idiopathic urticaria – head to toe hives for 10 weeks, along … Continue reading I ATE’NT DEAD
I’ve just finished reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. It was, of course, wonderful. This post is not about the book. “Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken” There are paths I didn’t take in … Continue reading Untaken paths.
It’s been a long time since I blogged. Life got interesting. In the “may you live in interesting times” curse sort of way. Big changes. I’m single. After 26 years of marriage. And not by my choice. I won’t say … Continue reading New Year, New Beginnings
Yesterday there should have been a post using the prompt “chocolate cake”. Yesterday was not a day conducive to writing, let alone writing about chocolate cake. I don’t think I care enough about chocolate cake to write a post about … Continue reading #KellsWritingChallenge Day 3 – Chocolate cake
I was contacted a couple of days ago by someone who was having trouble with one of my patterns, turned that was because the pattern was broken. Argh. Oh god. How many people have tried to use it? How many people are cursing me? Anyway, an updated version of the Birka pattern was uploaded on 27th Feb 2014. If you downloaded patterns from this site before then you may have a copy of the previous version which had a major copy/paste error in the S/Z threading. My profound apologies to anyone who might have been wrestling with the stuffed up … Continue reading Mea culpa – tablet weaving pattern stuff up
I don’t approve of New Years resolutions, they’re silly things decided at an arbitrary time for dubious reasons and doomed to be forgotten completely 2 weeks later. So I don’t make them. Except when I do. And usually not on … Continue reading Happy New Year – 2013 in review
I’ve edited the Pattern Library page and put a bunch of new patterns on there along with a PDF that contains all the patterns in the one file. Here, have a few pics of stuff I’ve been weaving lately: Continue reading Tablet weaving pattern library update
There’s been a bit more work done since my last renovations post back in September. The backyard was finished – topsoil and plants in the garden beds. Adam and David built the shed, the garden beds were mulched and the … Continue reading Still renovating
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