I've been reading Non-Working Monkey's blog for a while now and this morning, while trawling my Bloglines feeds, I find out that NWM is in fact female. Why this should suprise me I don't know, but the writing style and complete don't give a shit air of all the posts really honestly led me to visualise a mid 40s male. Well, well. If I'd ever looked at her profile on Blogger I would of course have found this out by now, but it was one of the blogs recommended by another blogger which I just randomly added to my list of feeds and became hooked on. Well, you've got to be intrigued by someone whose interests are listed as:
Not working; idling; absinthe; small clay pipes; fezzes; Canada; veterinary pharmaceutical research pathology; autopsies; haematology rock; beavers; moose; Pierre Trudeau; armchairs; wrestling; squirrel pest control; cake.
Another caustic blogger is Decorno, whose blog Vodka has no Carbs I have just found and which is brilliant, containing as it does a LOT of swearing.
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Friday 25 April 2008
tulips and hats
Ali took some arty shots of the tulips in the garden last night. We've got loads and they're looking really good right now.
Also I finished the little hat for Archie the other day, which is very sweet. It's definitely a winter hat though - it's very snuggly - which is a good job as he might have grown into it by then.
Also I finished the little hat for Archie the other day, which is very sweet. It's definitely a winter hat though - it's very snuggly - which is a good job as he might have grown into it by then.
Thursday 24 April 2008
Flight of the conference attendees
I am sure I saw this actor on my Easyjet flight back from Palma to Luton last night (after a very enjoyable work conference for 3 days).
Quite why he would be flying to Luton is a mystery to which I may never find the answer, and I'm not even sure it was him, but the speculation passed some time on the flight. My celeb spotting has been a bit on the slow side since seeing Vivienne Westwood on a flight from Munich to Heathrow last year. Maybe I should be travelling on budget airlines more often.
Quite why he would be flying to Luton is a mystery to which I may never find the answer, and I'm not even sure it was him, but the speculation passed some time on the flight. My celeb spotting has been a bit on the slow side since seeing Vivienne Westwood on a flight from Munich to Heathrow last year. Maybe I should be travelling on budget airlines more often.
Thursday 17 April 2008
two nice things to be doing
I've recently been getting stuck into two things I really enjoy; gardening and knitting. The gardening has been curtailed somewhat by the lack of nice weather at weekends but I have at least managed
to get some seedlings on the go. Trouble is, with all the recent overnight frosts, they've been stuck in the nice centrally heated kitchen getting all leggy, whereas in reality they should have had a few weeks hardening off in a cold frame by now. I am eternally hopeful that Saturday will see maybe half an hour's worth of dry, so I can at the very least get the sunflowers and dahlias planted out and the morning glory and nicotiana potted onto bigger pots in preparation for their final positions. The raspberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants seem to be doing OK though so that's one blessing.
Knitting-wise I have been furiously clacking like a madwoman recently. Of course this is due to new nephew Archie being born at the end of March :o) so I have 2 capes completed, plus a teddy made out of Alpaca wool (one leg is longer than the other but that's just character, obviously...) and a hat 3/4 of the way there. The hat is going to be really a bit big for him until he's about a year old I reckon so some other lucky older baby might get that one. And now I have yarn spilling out of bags everywhere, to make a hat for Ali (the same as the baby hat even down to the colours, though trying to scale up the pattern by 38 years is going to be interesting), some little astrakhan sheep and a baby tank top in burnt orange. Our friends Cameron and Elaine had a new baby yesterday; my friend Lynsey from work had her baby this morning; and there are at least 2 more in the pipeline (wrong phrase? probably) for other friends this year, so I can't see my fingers getting a rest any time soon. I'm really enjoying this burst of creativity - although I'm not quite productive enough to start s
elling any of it yet. We have a new shop in Abingdon called Local Roots which only sells things produced within a 30-mile radius of the town, and while in there on Saturday with my bulging carrier from Masons full of wool and needles, the owner pounced on me with a League of Gentleman-like 'are you LOCAL' and 'ooh do you knit'. I managed to avoid any further mention of my basic knitting exploits by pointing Ali in the direction of some local purple sprouting broccoli and hard goats cheese and scoffing some gorgeous white chocolate with berries in it - so for now at least all my knitting projects will be with particular babies in mind - much the best way.
to get some seedlings on the go. Trouble is, with all the recent overnight frosts, they've been stuck in the nice centrally heated kitchen getting all leggy, whereas in reality they should have had a few weeks hardening off in a cold frame by now. I am eternally hopeful that Saturday will see maybe half an hour's worth of dry, so I can at the very least get the sunflowers and dahlias planted out and the morning glory and nicotiana potted onto bigger pots in preparation for their final positions. The raspberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants seem to be doing OK though so that's one blessing.
Knitting-wise I have been furiously clacking like a madwoman recently. Of course this is due to new nephew Archie being born at the end of March :o) so I have 2 capes completed, plus a teddy made out of Alpaca wool (one leg is longer than the other but that's just character, obviously...) and a hat 3/4 of the way there. The hat is going to be really a bit big for him until he's about a year old I reckon so some other lucky older baby might get that one. And now I have yarn spilling out of bags everywhere, to make a hat for Ali (the same as the baby hat even down to the colours, though trying to scale up the pattern by 38 years is going to be interesting), some little astrakhan sheep and a baby tank top in burnt orange. Our friends Cameron and Elaine had a new baby yesterday; my friend Lynsey from work had her baby this morning; and there are at least 2 more in the pipeline (wrong phrase? probably) for other friends this year, so I can't see my fingers getting a rest any time soon. I'm really enjoying this burst of creativity - although I'm not quite productive enough to start s
elling any of it yet. We have a new shop in Abingdon called Local Roots which only sells things produced within a 30-mile radius of the town, and while in there on Saturday with my bulging carrier from Masons full of wool and needles, the owner pounced on me with a League of Gentleman-like 'are you LOCAL' and 'ooh do you knit'. I managed to avoid any further mention of my basic knitting exploits by pointing Ali in the direction of some local purple sprouting broccoli and hard goats cheese and scoffing some gorgeous white chocolate with berries in it - so for now at least all my knitting projects will be with particular babies in mind - much the best way.
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Not one to reinvent the wheel
When somebody else has blogged on exactly the same topic I was planning to write about, I could go down the route of plagiarising their words shamelessly and hoping no-one would notice. However, I'd sooner spend the time blogging on my new gardening and knitting projects (I plan to take pictures at the weekend so I can do them justice) so I can't be arsed to spend ages on a post about the Eels concert we went to on Easter Sunday.
It was at the New Theatre in Oxford and was fantastic. Eels have a special place in mine and Ali's hearts as one of the first bands we bonded over in the early days of our courtship(!) but it was the first time we'd seen them live. Actually it was only Mark 'E' Everett and his mate The Chet on stage but I will hand over to this blogger on the Line of Best Fit to describe the experience in more detail, as the gig they played in Cambridge the following night sounds almost identical to the one in Oxford.
We're off to see Elbow next week and then that's it before 2 Radiohead gigs in 2 weeks in June - hooray!
It was at the New Theatre in Oxford and was fantastic. Eels have a special place in mine and Ali's hearts as one of the first bands we bonded over in the early days of our courtship(!) but it was the first time we'd seen them live. Actually it was only Mark 'E' Everett and his mate The Chet on stage but I will hand over to this blogger on the Line of Best Fit to describe the experience in more detail, as the gig they played in Cambridge the following night sounds almost identical to the one in Oxford.
We're off to see Elbow next week and then that's it before 2 Radiohead gigs in 2 weeks in June - hooray!
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