As some of you may know, Woolfest took place over the weekend just gone. For those who didn’t know, Woolfest took place over the weekend just gone. Woolfest is pretty much what it sounds like. It is a place to buy wool (although not exclusively!) for spinning, knitting, weaving, felting…whatever you might want to use [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 20, 2009
Book Review: The Return, Victoria Hislop
I have just finished The Return, by Victoria Hislop. This is a book with two connected stories. One dealing with a woman called Sonia who loves to dance and goes on holiday to Spain to do so. The other deals with the experiences of the Ramirez family who run a cafe (of which Sonia becomes [...]
June 19, 2009
BubbleTimer and the PhD
Yes, another BubbleTimer post. But this one is a little different. You see, someone suggested that it might be interesting if I wrote a more general post about exactly why I find it so useful. And I thought, actually, good point. I know what it is about Bubble Timer that makes it stand out for [...]
June 17, 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A week or so ago, I finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini). I’d read The Kite Runner, as someone suggested it at book group. I really wasn’t sure about The Kite Runner. I found it very hard to handle in some ways, and was left with a huge sense of frustration with the [...]
June 16, 2009
More on Wheat-Free Bread
Today I am making bread. It is sitting in the bread machine doing its thing, and in a couple of hours I will be restraining myself from eating the whole loaf slice by slice, covered in peanut butter and honey (yes, together). I am feeling very optimistic because I think my last loaf may have [...]
June 15, 2009
A Pen for a Pen
This weekend I acquired a new pen. It is a Parker 45 in steel (both cap and barrell) with gold trimmings, and very pretty it is too. According to information gained from Parkerpens.net the coding on the cap indicates that it was manufactured in the first quarter of 2007. Apparently it has been in storage [...]
June 12, 2009
BubbleTimer After Two Weeks
Two weeks of BubbleTimer are up now, and I think this is really helping me!
THIS WEEK
Sleep: 63 hours 15 mins
Watch TV: 16 hours 15 mins
Paid Work: 14 hours
Cooking and Eating: 12 hours 45 mins
PhD Work: 10 hours 45 mins
Personal: 9 hours 30 mins
Web browsing: 8 hours 30 mins
Fibre Crafts: 8 hours 30 mins
Phone: [...]
June 10, 2009
Soup!
Today I made soup! This makes me proud.
The thing is, I usually grab lunch at my computer, and I put neither effort nor thought into it. Very often it’s a sandwich, which is Not Good, considering that I have a bit of a problem with wheat (seemingly decreasing from where it once was, but even [...]
June 9, 2009
Oh Spinning Wheel!
Today, having become very frustrated with my work and therefore deeming myself in great need of a break, I have sat at my spinning wheel for the first time in…weeks. I have no idea how many, but too many. I only spun for quarter of an hour or so, but sitting there, listening to Palestrina [...]
June 5, 2009
Judging a Book By Its Cover (Why I Like Book Group)
I think anyone who reads is guilty of judging a book by its cover, I know I am. I am very good at seeing a book in Waterstones, wrinkling my nose at it, and walking away.
It can be anything. The title font; the cover illustration; the blurb on the back of the book; which newspaper [...]
