Nanowrimo 2020 day 2

Hannah stood beside the door until five to five, uncomfortably aware of the weight pressing down through the soles of her feet. She needed new shoe liners. Her muscles and joints could take the hours of standing up straight, but her heels were becoming, frankly, hooves.  The room emptied, then filled again as a group...

NaNoWriMo 2020 day 1

I don't know what this one is called yet - it's a heist story about elderly witches. (For NaNoWriMo people dare themselves to write 50,000 words of fiction in a month without going back to edit. I've started and not completed it for several years. It's great fun!) The gallery was really far too warm...

launch and sulk

https://youtu.be/-vrn18JWKuY By the numbers: 12 hours worked in other people's gardens2 loaves of bread made (needed more oil or less water?)1 day wasted waiting in for my new phone, which arrived while I was out the next day1 viewer, 0 offers This week I spent a pleasing amount of time covered in dogs and retrieving...

Bread and copying bread

The Drunken Dwarf made bread and talked about sustainability and craftsmanship. https://youtu.be/Nju5pgccOS0 Then I made bread less well & talked about nothing in particular so I stuck some delightful Lee Rosevere music over it. https://youtu.be/DdZnTJe4yvY Go make bread and show us!

piano, a deer, wood + trees

By the numbers: 16 hours paid work, mainly gardening, some tidying shed, 18 hours screen time on my phone (this will increase next week when my !!new!! !!phone!! arrives), 3 people viewed my house, 0 made offers,I'd really love to know how much time my Spotify account spends playing music in a week - I...

Visabul allotment clearing!

The robins and blackbird really really really approved of today's session

Invisabul allotment progress

New rake arrived from Amazon and I went up to the plot before work to move more plant matter from the ground to the compost bin. It is completely imperceptible in my before and after photos! I'm not kidding, those are the progress photos. 😂

Term 1 roundup (q4 2019)

My self-set modules were: Produce 5kg of food, Publish fiction, Study soil, Study turbines. I harvested 1.5 kg of Jerusalem artichokes that were in the plot when I took tenancy. 1.5/5, 30%, a fail. I did not publish. I got to like 3k words of Nanowrimo and then got, I dunno, a cold or a...

Loom knitting: first two attempts

YouTube video from the channel "LoomAHat' helped me cast on and do two rows. Then this happened. She was so proud! I let her keep it, because my yarn tension was so crap on the first try anyway. Started again a few days later, holding the round much much looser and still loosening it as...

Skivemas allotment visit

I thought I was going to be up at the plot every morning this week but it didn't seem to turn out that way. Sunday morning was a 'look, you can't not go all week' kind of emergency. It was really lovely! No idea if my peas or beans have shown any growth, because I...