Another super Mathew Arnold quote, found here while trying to discover who he was. *** On a mostly irrelevant side note, the Germans confuse things a bit because although they say ‘bekommen’ which sounds quite a lot like ‘become’, they mean ‘get’…
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold That sounds like the best sort of resolution…. (I found the quote here. Ray’s Daily is full of awesome quotes and inspiring passages – go and see for yourself :))
…or the second day of Christmas for anyone who doesn’t know what boxing day is… Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, DB and a crowd of friends decided to go [10-pin] bowling on the 26th of December. Since then it’s become a tradition. This year was the first time I went with them. […]
J’ai fini! 🙂
Every Christmas, my family does a jigsaw puzzle. This year they’re doing one without me, so I’m doing one without them… 🙂 DB is helping, but hasn’t had nearly as much practice…
Happy Christmas luffly peoples 🙂 Or “Bah Humbug!”, whatever you want…
Folding a Bascetta Star – pictorial instructions 🙂
…I’m on the way home now and there’s one bag left, I wonder who’ll cross my path looking hungry on the way home…
Decorations – not just for Christmas! This is the wall on your right as you come into the workshop: These are on the wall on your left: All of these Glass Things were hidden in the workshop, gathering dust. As part of our Christmas cleaning marathon, we decided to put them on display instead.
My colleague and I cleaned the workshop today. Every. Last. Inch. Of. It. It took ALL DAY. From 9am until 5pm, with half an hour for lunch, we scrubbed and wiped and vacuumed and washed and dried and sorted and tidied… …and decorated. And now it looks all sparkly and clean and luffly…..and we feel […]
My vacuum cleaner transforms my house into a feel-good oasis. Apparently. That’s what packaging of the new vacuum bag said anyway. I think I need more convincing. *** The bag came with a sealed plastic packet of tiny gel balls, much like the ones that swell up to look like oversized frogspawn when you soak […]
Patting multiple empty pockets leads to steadily rising panic… … especially when you realise that the only “safety measure” is hoping the battery dies before anyone finds it.. (I’d left it on a table in the foyer at work while looking at flyers, where, luckily, it was seen by a secretary who was […]