Quiet Week

I’ve foolishly got a full time temp job for the next two weeks, it obviously comes just when I have lots to do… so if it’s a bit quiet in Misericordia Mansions, it’s because I am helpfully redirecting calls, making tea and coffee and arranging biscuits in pleasing patterns.
But I’ll do my best to keep [...]

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Listless

Welcome to Weekword!
I’m feeling the lack of a deadline quite severely. I keep wandering around the house, starting projects and not finishing them, or researching pointless things on the Internet.
I even made a cushion for Batman’s birthday present from my mum.

It matches the cushions that I made (with his help) for his other birthday present.

Go [...]

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Bunnies!

Well, not quite…
I’ve been faffing, a lot. But in my travels, I’ve discovered a site called Art Rabbit.
Essentially it’s social networking for art exhibitions, workshops, talks and just about anything else you can think of. You create a profile, pick your favourite venues, browse upcoming events and see what other people are interested in. You [...]

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Sherry for Breakfast

I’m making Christmas cake tonight, but as usual I forgot to get the fruit soaking overnight…

So I found myself in the unusual position of licking sherry off my fingers at the breakfast table.
…the way the day is going, I probably should have gone ahead and poured myself a glass.

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New and Exciting Things

I’m a little behind on my list of things to do, so just a quick post today. Part of the reason I’m so behind is that the list of blogs I read seems to be expanding rapidly. I’m not complaining, I’m just saying it takes a little time to absorb all the fabulousness.
So here’s a [...]

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Nervous Energy

I seem to have had a lot of pent up energy this weekend, which mostly seems to have resulted in frantic crocheting (better than dropping crockery or screaming, I guess).
My Friday project was this:

It’s a water bottle holder. My new dance bag is fabulous, but has no space for a water bottles. Pointe shoes and [...]

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Saving Our Strength

This is the pace of our household at the moment…
Kipling got in a fight and took home a souvenir bite on the ear that got infected, so it’s been tablets in the food and ear drops (which is so much fun I can’t even begin to tell you…).
I’ve developed a manky cold which means I [...]

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Stop Press

The management at Misericordia Mansions would like to announce the cessation of the Conker Experiment with immediate effect.
This decision was taken due to a 500% increase in the number of flies seen in the Mansions, and their persistent flouting of house regulations.
Spiders, please come back, all is forgiven!

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New Friends Old Friends

We received these lovely squashes (pumpkins? I’m not good at botany) at our party. I sat them on the kitchen table, and one morning as I was blearily munching my way through breakfast, a resemblance suddenly occurred to me.

Anyone?

Here’s a clue…
..and another.

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Harvest goodness

So I’ve just squeeked in with my self-imposed threepost per week deadline!
We had a little Sukkot party yesterday, which was an adventure in many ways.
First, we’d neither of us ever made a sukkah. So we decided to wing it a little, with as little equipment as possible.

So we used some decking and the world’s most [...]

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