Fraycheck the Tree!

Batman and I went to his parents flat for tea last night, and I brought the baby quilt I’m desperately trying to finish. As I was quilting, I noticed that a a tree applique hadn’t got turned under as much as I would like, and that I ought to try to Fraycheck it when I got home to prevent further disaster.

So I turned to Batman and said ‘Remind me to Fraycheck the tree’.

An hour or so later, as we were walking home, he started chanting, ‘Fraycheck the Tree! Fraycheck the Tree!’. It became a slightly mystical mantra, reminiscent of ‘Save the Cheerleader, Save the World!’…

 

Changing of the Guard

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story

Captain Lamy, the long-serving head of HMS Pencase, has decided to retire. He has led his gallant crew through many a long-fought degree battle, and saved the day with frequent emergency writing sorties.

But now the time had come to step down, nurse his persistently oozing nib injury and let another take his place. The crew assembled while the captain saluted them…

 

The new captain’s ship drew alongside as the bo’sun piped him aboard.

The new captain saluted the receding form of Captain Lamy and life began again on HMS Pencase.

Bing bong..

We apologise for the delay to our regularly scheduled blog. Batman unexpectedly ran off with the camera for a week and I have failed to muster the ingenuity to post without photos. We expect normal service in the next few days.

 

Thank you..

her space/my space

The benefit of feeling like Hell today and staying home from work is that I can take a hs/ms photo! (..and of course rest, recuperate and write the job application I should be doing)

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Weekend away

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animals, cake, travel

Batman and I went away for a short weekend to York, we were visiting a friend who is one of those fabulously accidental friends who turn out to be perfect. He and Batman were assigned to the same student flat in their first year at university, he was the first person to notice that Batman and I were going out (it took him…15 seconds, tops) after two months of assiduously not-going-out. He then moved into the flat we now live in when Batman embarked on landlordship, and he was best man at our wedding. He also has snakehips and a second degree blackbelt..

We took the car so I could practice driving, so I thought I’d chuck both the baby quilt that needs to be finished in…8 unlikely days and my Hasselblad in the car. I have taken a bit of a photography break, it’s apparently a quite common thing to do after a whole degrees worth of photo-ing. So I had forgotten all the nice things about big cameras, the fact that they go ca-thunk-cht when you press the shutter, the fact that everything looks like a painting through the viewfinder, and how the little slider button to override the aperture setting works. …and yet, I still haven’t managed to finish the half-started roll of film!

Enough chatting, here are (digi) photos..

Adorable goslings

..and cake and stained glass at Betty’s

Spring…

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birthday, present, pretty things

I’m afraid I’ve been terribly uninspired on the sewing front recently… A change in job (although very welcome because I’m back in a lovely office with fabulous people) means that I walk to work, so no hexagons. I have hit a rut with the baby quilt, just when the whole top has hit the stage where I just have to do the thing, no more decisions or questions (have I hit the crux of the problem?).

But it’s my birthday, so I’ve decided not to worry about it today. Instead, here is a photo of my present from Batman, who knows how to feed a double china and sushi habit.. the fiend!

It’s a little hard to tell the pattern and colour, but it’s a nice celedon-y turquoise..

Recycling…

Batman is a proper coffee fan, once I got him off the instant, there was no stopping him…

We have settled on Illy as the one that’s uber-Fairtrade and doesn’t make his breath smell of nicotine, which conveniently gives me endless organisational opportunities…