This weekend has been fun: I’ve been as focused as a giraffe’s fart. I keep wandering into the next room and finding jobs I started a while ago and got distracted from. I start things while waiting for something else to finish and the next thing I know I’ve got fourteen browser tabs either uploading [...]
Also taggedI always knew I was a hippy at heart. I guess it was just a matter of time until it became apparent to those that surrounded me.
Evidence!
(a) brown rice.
My parentinis, not hippies, used to say “Peace, Love, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Brown rice and Incense”. I knew I loved peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll from a [...]
Like happy little geckoes, we are settling into our new hollow log and I am learning new things about it all the time. It turns out M and I aren’t the kind of sharp-eyed, high-cheekboned, young-and-ruthlessly-ascendant real estate moguls you might see on a polished reality TV show. We’re more the kind of wool-hat-wearing, enthusiastic-but-basically-unobservant [...]
Also taggedI have just moved house. What a rigourously discombobulating process that is. I always forget how much it shakes you (well, me) up. Transferring all your possessions to a new location doesn’t seem like a big deal on paper, but unpacking — being brought face-to-face with all the things you’ve bought or that someone has [...]
Also taggedI was doing really well with the whole Finish-Everything-I’ve-Begun challenge. Really well! Finished my Skew socks, then I finished reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma (excellent, fascinating), then When Books Die (charming, interesting, clever and stimulating). Congratulating myself, I turned to the Reading Pile and saw that behemoth. Hoo boy. That up there is Camille [...]
Also tagged reading time, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeWe’re moving house soon, and getting rid of as much stuff as we possibly can in anticipation of the process. Stuff like the breadmaker. M was the first to suggest getting rid of the breadmaker. I was initially reluctant, because I have always relied on it to do my kneading and rising. But I’m developing an [...]
Also tagged awesome, baking, cheeseMoving house in a month — well, it was a month when I wrote this post, now it’s only three weeks — gives me the opportunity to self-impose one of my favourite challenges: a completely arbitrary deadline against which to stack my wits and energy. The challenge is to finish all the books I’m halfway through [...]
Also tagged reading time, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeI had hoped to finish reading Virgina Woolf’s The Waves today. I picked it up from my Mumini’s groaning bookshelf, having been suddenly and unexpectedly intoxicated with To The Lighthouse while travelling in New Zealand in January.
When I was in my undergrad studies, a berzillion years ago, I read a collection of the love [...]
What can I get done in a month?
It’s going to roll around anyway, what can I do between now and then?
Can I finish Mossy Tendrils? Skew? Another Bagstopper? Can I finish the mitts to go with Silver Sands? What about the little Square Cake bag I had hoped for? Probably not. Not all of them, [...]
So I have some stuff that I want to knit up. I’m on a bit of a plant-fibre jag at the moment, enjoying the feel of it on my fingers. And I’ve got some rogue balls in the stash.
There’s some gorgeous green bamboo:
I have one virgin skein (100g/229m) and this little ball (22.2g according to [...]
Also tagged Everlasting Bagstopper, Yarn mysteries