Random Yarning

Morning Womble, I'm good, and hope you are too! After last week's unscheduled diversion, I am back to my trauma helping of Sigils of Spring by AK Faulkner and moved onto Virtue and Vampyres by Tilly Wallace for cosy alt regency investigations. Am lining up some anthology shorts for changes of pace.

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

There's a superb anthology here that's very close to funding. www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

I do not think you are alone, I certainly have feelings about fonts and formatting

Bookcase requires hammer. Hammer has been misplaced. Bookcase delayed. Ejection of no longer wanted items however continues. Our neighbour's tiny child now has a lovely skateboard, although said child is probably too small to really utilise it yet.

Today is a day for much tidying and prepping for a whole new (half height) bookcase. Yay!

I have found so many phone cables, and also bags of tatty old clothes suitable only for textile recycling.

We don't have toaster waffles here but I follow Delia Smith's toast instructions for toast. Put it in. pop it up. flip it round. let moisture evaporate. pop it down. pop it up. flip it round. let moisture evaporate. etc until the perfect shade of toast is obtained. Perfect toast, waffles may vary!

I'm a man, with two children, and seeing what my wife went through I absolutely defend women's reproductive freedoms. I think this is an essential issue on which men should stand up.

StoryBundle Pay what you like and get a bundle of awesome ebooks and more!

Oooh I see the latest storybundle has some very good things in. It's a trilogies bundle. Storybundle.com/trilogies I do have some of these on my wishlist already so that's handy :) (admittedly some are already in my possession and my tbr also)

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

I have over 12,000 followers here. If each one of you pledged just £1 each to the Kickstarter we’d be deep into stretch goals by now. Just a thought: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Thank you:) I've just overdone it a bit the last couple of days so a bit worn out and tired.

Morning Womble, feeling a little poorly today, but hope you are good. Am abandoning all other reading to dive into KJ Charles's new one, All Of Us Murderers, on the grounds that I'm ill so don't need to stick to my reading plans!

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

Only £7 short of £3000. Surely we can get there today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Oh, and I got a ball of sock yarn which sparkles because I appear to be unable to resist the combo of sock yarn and shiny.

I didn't intend to buy anything today while accompanying my mum around the Knit and Stitch show. Honest, I didn't.

I did however come away with 3 sewing patterns, 2 cross stitch kits, and a badge which claims the wearer is a "Proper Grownup" which is for me.

Today I'm off to take my mum round the Knit and Stitch show at Ally Pally.

Bought fabric, yarn, patterns :) also managed to find an extra very long 5.5mm circular needle, needed to turn some of the yarn into a blanket for a colleague.

Very busy, lots of fabric, lots of yarn, lots of patterns, less tools though.

Will do! I'm also going tomorrow but that is to accompany my elderly mother.

Off to Ally Pally in about 5 minutes, very looking forward to the Knit and Stitch show.

two men are pushing a small boat through the water . Alt: Three young men are on a rowboat when it capsizes and then they salute as the ship sinks

Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.

Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?

Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)

We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
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I'm off to the Knit and Stitch show tomorrow, and am looking forward to it.

I have just read a whole load of indie pub books, time to go leave 5 star reviews everywhere. Sorry to say that the words i will leave are: "I really enjoyed this", because I'm not a writer, and I am hoping that is better than no words!

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

Second hand knitting books are very good!

Kind of feel that this should be handed out with every book publication frankly!

Wide sweeping drama? Political fighting internal and external? Raymond Feist Magician series? I know it's an old series (I was reading it in the 1980s) but it too seems to be refreshed and republished. Maybe less with the portal drama though.

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

#TudorTuesday:
'I bought thee kerchers to thy head,
that were wrought fine and gallantly'

@callumcoates.bsky.social (The lover) presents an embroidered kercher to Lady #Greensleeves

greensleevesproject.uk

#earlymodern #materialculture #greensleevesproject #tudor #tudors #historicaldress