Wendy Davis’s Dewey Decimal Section: 902 Miscellany Wendy Davis’s birthday: 9/29/1973 = 929+1973 = 2902 Class: 900 History & Geography Contains: Travel, biographies, ancient history, and histories of continents. What it says about you: You’re connected to your past and value the things that have happened to you. You’ve had some conflicted times in your […]

It happens really rarely these days but this morning I woke up with knots in my stomach and a woozily head. I was anxious about the day ahead. I had had two late nights and hadn’t slept very well. None of that helps with anxiety. Well it actually does help the anxiety. It doesn’t help […]

After I stood on the scales in mid February and realised that I’d whacked on 10 kilos in the last 12 months or so I decided it was time to do something about my lifestyle. In short, I decided I needed to get organised. The peril of a desk job is that you sit on […]

This evening I am going to a concert as the page turner. Some very good local musicians are putting on a concert with all proceeds going to flood relief. Much of the city is still in a bad way with many many houses yet to have repair work begun. This is not a post about […]

When the lovely and welcoming @jobeaz kindly let me become part of her book club I was full of good intentions. Here was my chance to get back into reading fiction. For the last few years it’s been lots and lots of memoirs, autobiographies, biographies and non-fiction. (I actually believe that finishing my PhD some […]

Just a little bit of sewing this weekend. I finished the white long sleeved blouse that I had started last weekend. It’s a tremendously basic pattern but it always works out which I like. This time I left the sleeves long. Then I whacked together another skirt with some cheap patchwork fabric I had bought […]

I have spent the afternoon battling with French seams (and giving up because they did my head in) and flounces. In the end it all worked out okay. This was first attempt at this pattern and as has become my habit I made it in a cheap material in case I totally faffed it up. […]

Finally my flood damaged music room was completely ready to set back up this week after the last of O’Reilly’s men traipsed through the house leaving a trail of dirty footprints behind them. In all fairness though they were quick, efficient and did everything they said they were going to. I was so relieved when […]

It’s been a little while since I had any dedicated sewing time. After a last minute dash to Spotlight on Thursday evening I started this dandelion dress yesterday and finished it today. I had tried the pattern once before as a blouse. The yoke is a bit fiddly and it is also supposed to have […]

Today I bought a microwave. It’s the first one I’ve ever owned in my life. That’s right. I have survived without one. But how do you defrost bread Wendy? Well up until lately I used to put it in the toaster for a short time. Either that, or I would get organised and get it […]