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Writing: 'why doesn't she just'

When I'm talking about films or books with The Big Spoon, his great gift is asking questions that show up how much stories rely on characters reacting out of proportion. If she knows she's ill, why doesn't she go and ask for a prescription?

Wednesday words: bat names

I was trying to write 'like a bat out of hell' in a fancy way and went to find a group name for bats - I genuinely thought they were all one genus, they're very much not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat reminds me

Crafting roundup 1

Here's the ravelry version: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/hooksforspace. It's been exactly a month since I followed my first crochet tutorial on youtube. In order, I have made: 1. Granny squares of varying squareness 2. the start of a Brown Butter Shawl 3. a very

w44: 28 October to 3 November

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w43: 21-27 October

Sunday evening I untangled 75g of yarn that I shouldn't have left within reach of the puppy. Oddly, I wasn't in the mood for constructive crochet after that. To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2) (borrowed paperback), The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, #1) (library

w42: 14-20 October

Monday morning's work was cancelled on Saturday so I had a lovely stroll round the charity shops instead. afternoon at the cottage, playing Can Four Dogs Fit On One Person. yes, yes they can. Tuesday I rolled out at 0850 to go get my annual flu jab. The

w40: 30 September to 6 October

Monday afternoon after work I napped so long that the dog walk was both after dark and in the rain. We stuck to the route that's lit but of course that's also the route with all the dropped food, so I wouldn't say it

Study: soil 1.1

1 How do they classify soil types? Chalk, clay, loam, peat, sand, silt sayshttps://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/find-out-your-soil-type/and I know we're sandy and silty here just from watching my footprints on walks, but I was expecting a more quantitative analysis. Something more like this https://en.

w39: 23-29 September

Monday morning a nice brown and amber spider has set up a web across the back door. You could have done that a month ago, I said, when there were more flies. I've just remembered I have two panels of clear hard plastic that used to be the