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Oops, I fell off the blogging grid completely this weekend. I didn’t even write in my paper journal, so I can’t claim that. Ah well, it was the weekend, we had visitors, I was exhausted, it’s all good. Yesterday afternoon K gave me a free pass to get out on my own for a little… Continue reading H is for Hookey

I stopped off at Dunkin’ Donuts on the way home today, after dropping A off at pre-school. As a stay-at-home mum with rambunctious boys, I don’t get much opportunity for people watching these days, unless the people are other mums and their kids.  So waiting for my bagel to be toasted gave me a few… Continue reading C is for Challenged (Sartorially)

Wedding cake Originally uploaded by jwordsmith Happy Anniversary to us. Well, we made it through Year 13…and I can still remember how good that cake tasted…

Update: Wow. Blaspheme against The mighty Who, and watch the comments grow! So, I was watching the Doctor Who Confidential, about the Pompeii episode. The producers and crew were going on about how hard this episode was to film, and how gorgeous it looked (which it did), and how pleased they were with how it… Continue reading I is for (Too Much) Introspection

Hey! I got myself set up at Ravelry as a designer. So far I’ve only uploaded my Cyber Chart (the chart for my cyberman head, that graces G’s sweater), but I have a sock pattern and another, fairisley Doctor Who chart to go up, oh and a hat pattern. I smell another project coming on… Continue reading D is for Designer

For Brits, the opening chords of the song “I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)” mean only one thing: film reviews. Barry Norman used it as his theme tune for the series that started as Film ’72 and is now called Film ’08, I assume, and hosted by Jonathon Ross. The… Continue reading F is for Free

My Weight-Watchers inpired rediscovery of delicious fresh foods has led me down the (garden?) path of looking into Community Supported Agriculture. This is where you buy shares in a farm’s crop for that year and they, in turn provide you with a box full of fresh goodness every week (assuming the creeks don’t rise, and… Continue reading A is for Agriculture (local, sustainable)

Having trouble blogging today because the ideas are finding it hard to sprout and grow under the sonic mulch of my five year old’s prattling. He’s lovely, and it’s cute, but I can’t even think of what my ideas for today’s blog were. I know there was something I thought of yesterday, I have a… Continue reading Note To the Writing Mother: Make Notes

Now here’s an application I think everyone I know feels like they need: Leech Block. It’s a Firefox extension that you can program to be your self-control gnome. It is a well-established fact that Google, IMDB, YouTube, and any social networking site were set up by the devil to suck your life away in pursuits… Continue reading Leech Block

I’ve had an idea for a while that it would be great to write short fiction and publish it as a podcast. It would be good for people who like to listen to stories, but have other things to do as well, (say, knit or sew. Or drive to work. Or build and paint little… Continue reading G is for Guidelines