Let me start by saying that you don't actually need fancy props to do roleplaying. It's perfectly possible to do it online without anything like that, just so long as you have a little bit of software to roll dice for you (and a lot of
I was invited to a wedding that took place in April; and I'd rather like to tell you the story behind that one, because it was a mature romance and I'm always fond of those, but that would make the post too long. So instead I&
So, obviously, I like knitting and I like beads; and therefore it was only a matter of time before I decided to put the two together. This is the start of a beaded top I designed using Paintbox Metallic, and I mostly want to talk about the beading today, but
I may have mentioned that the demographic is a bit odd here. At one point I heard that there were more under-1s in this town than over-55s; that may have changed, since it is now more than a year since I heard that particular snippet, but it is true that
Does poetry translation count as a craft? Well, I'm going to count it. At some point in the late 00s, I discovered this book and it completely blew my mind. I was already familiar with some of Hofstadter's other work, so I was expecting it to
When I joined the church I currently attend, it was pretty small. There were maybe about thirty of us. Since then, the town has grown apace and the church with it, and now we can easily get 150 people in on a Sunday morning. That rather makes me feel we
Today I'm going to talk about something I made for Porthos; but before I do so, a quick aside about Athos. You've probably noticed that I've been telling you I made such a thing for Porthos, and such a thing for d'Artagnan,
When you really want to knit, but you can't because your wrists are going to hurt if you try, you look for alternatives. I had a cheap knitting machine for a while. It did colourwork surprisingly well (I had a young friend, the nephew of an old friend,
I haven't done a vast amount in the way of cake decorating. My mother was always the expert on that (she doesn't do it any more, being 86 and not too steady on her feet), and she used to do some real show-stoppers. However, this isn&
A top-notch professional singer can sing through anything short of laryngitis without wrecking their voice, or even sounding particularly off (though they might have a bit of trouble with their high notes and have to transpose down a little). I once heard d'Artagnan singing Handel in London, and
For over 25 years of my life, I couldn't physically knit because my wrists were shot. Well, you see, it's like this. When I was unable to finish my degree (I won't go into the details of why, except to say that it was
One of my aunts has a spinning wheel. She and my uncle live in the middle of Nowhere, Cumbria (oh, wait, it's not Cumbria now, is it? I'm not sure whether they're now Westmorland or Lancashire), in what I think probably used to be