Still plodding on then:
Still adding layers of scrubby paint to this canvas – in the morning, when I look at it refreshed
Still hand quilting – while watching tv in the evening, don’t need to see it that well, just higgledy piggledy running stitch.
Still making holes in this tweed jacket – middle of the day, when the light is best, with strongest set of glasses on.
Still listening to Christmas cds… all the time…
Peter Broderick – “http://www.itstartshere. com”
Elbow – “Dead in the Boot”
First Aid Kit – “The Lion’s Roar”
Loney Dear – “Hall Music”
All the above highly recommended.
Sophie Cullinan sent me a sock that arrived a couple of days before Christmas. I’ve been panicking because I thought I’d lost it – got thrown out in a load of wrapping paper or turkey carcass or similar, but no. Just found it half way down the ironing basket… phew!
Will deal with that tomorrow!
My Christmas reading list consists of books with high ratio of image:text, including:
“Information is Beautiful” ed David McCandless very browsable – attractive and prompts exclamations of “ooh! that’s interesting” at regular intervals. You don’t need a book mark, you can just dip into it in between glasses of mulled wine and mince pies.
“Fifty Sheds of Grey” by C.T. Grey – parody of the other book with similar title. This one much more suited to me. It has pictures of sheds in it. And a healthy disregard for the seriousness of sex. And gentle wordplay sprinkled with double entendres. I particularly liked:
“Pleasure and pain can be experienced simultaneously” she said, gently massaging my back as we listened to her Coldplay cd”
(see, the writing’s better than in the other one too)
My husband bought it for me. He knows what I like.
