It’s a rum ol’ game, this blogging. Putting yourself out there, (selected) warts and all, but also holding back a little. Every blogger has their own limits regarding what they’re prepared to share and what they keep private, and unless I missed the memo (entirely possible – I miss a lot of memos, including the one that says your sentences shouldn’t be nine clauses long), nobody has yet figured out the definitive answer about exactly how open a blogger should be. (Disclaimer: the photos in Continue Reading
The New Gaff
Oops! Mind those boxes, there. Unpacking is a work in progress. It's strange, moving into a new place. Even though you know that soon its every detail will be as familiar as your own hands, there's a period of adjustment whilst you're learning its smells, its proportions, its light, and the fact that you have to yank the bathroom window handle slightly to the left in order to open it. No, I haven't physically moved house. I still live in the oldest, coldest, quirkiest, roof-leakiest, converted Continue Reading
Lost In The Ether
OK, this is a quick one, because I know you're busy. And it's sort of an admin post, just like when you go to a training event and they tell you at the beginning where the fire exits are, and ask how long a lunch break you'd like, at which point everyone opts for a short lunch so that they can go home early. I'm trying to knit whilst typing, so please do excuse any errors. So, tomorrow-ish, some serious backstage shenanigans will be happening on this site. (For those with an Continue Reading
What? Another Blogiversary Already?
...But just before I publish the bag pattern at last, another post has rudely sneaked in front. Because today is TheTwistedYarn's second blogiversary! Also, this is my 200th post. OK I confess, this photo is of the cake that the Stoic Spouse secretly commissioned last year, but it was so wonderful that I thought its picture deserved dusting off and airing again, one year on. Man, that cake tasted good. And as surprises go, this was an above-averagely wonderful one. It was made by some folks Continue Reading
Blogs of Much Loveliness.
The Arne and Carlos giveaway is coming really soon. Disclaimer: I'm not actually giving away Arne and Carlos themselves - that'd be more of a coup than I can pull off. It's just signed copies of their books, OK? Meanwhile... Psst! Yes, you! Look! Over here! I've got things to show you. Good things. Entirely legal things, in case you're worried. One of the best aspects of blogging is getting to know other blogs, as well as the writers behind them. There's a treasure-trove of wit and Continue Reading
Deramores Blog Awards
Gosh. :-) I'm writing this with an enormous smile because the big news, as promised last night, is that I've won the Deramores Blog Awards! Wheeeee! Frankly I'm honoured, surprised, and excited in pretty much equal measure, and I haven't stopped grinning since I learned the news. Hop over here to see the details if you're interested. I won the knitting prize, and a beautiful vibrant blog called Betsy Makes won the crochet prize (though I also can't help wishing there'd been a prize for the Continue Reading