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Trailing the crowd

I finally caved and got a Facebook account. Found a few people I know, a herd of people from church found me, looking for a few friends from school and university. A lot of the people I knew are only on Friends Reunited, I hadn't been there in

Snapshot - August 2008

It's been a while since I did one of these. September and March in 2007 were the last. Similar to phoeknits weekly thing but a lot less frequent: Knitting Eris is back in the lunchtime knitting slot, which is pretty much the only time I knit. I have

A Tale of Two Hats

My beloved husband wears a hat, a baseball cap that has seen better days. He loves that hat, and it gets comments because of the Linux penguin, Tux, on the front. I got it for him from ThinkGeek at least three years ago and I've been bugging him

Lucky 13

August 5th is our 13th wedding anniversary. I love you Hubby!

Seaglass

Glass that has been tumbled and smoothed in the sea washes up on beaches as sea glass, or beach glass. Got these on Etsy, but I replaced the jump ring on the cobalt piece with a silver bail from Rio Grande. The glass is likely ten or more years old,

Living history

BBC News: Ancient tree 'one of UK's best' An ancient Perthshire yew has made the top 10 in a list of the most important trees in the UK. The Fortingall Yew, which grows at a churchyard near Aberfeldy, could be up to 5,000 years old

Ladytron

Back in March, Hubby surprised me with tickets to see one of my favourite bands, Ladytron. They were at the Pageant on Monday night with Datarock. We arrived at the Halo Bar early and were rewarded with first access passes, which got us to the front of the line when

Someone stole my blog post

It's been an interesting week. As in the curse May you live in interesting times. Some weasel in Russia had been scraping my blog feed since the start of May and republishing all my posts on their spam blog with Google AdSense ads. They were stealing content from

Making lightning

BBC News: Tripping the light fantastic. It is near pitch-black in the viewing room where we are standing; a soft red glow exuding from a warning light above the door barely cuts through the darkness. A klaxon sounds, and, suddenly, a giant flash of lightning bolts through the air, accompanied

Tagged!

I got tagged by Sue for another meme: The Rules: Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged

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