I planted sunflowers today.
This might not seem all that important, but I did it not because I like sunflowers – they’re nice in Plants Versus Zombies – but as far as I am aware, you can’t eat them – I did it because of a project going in the UK at the moment. It’s part [...]
I don’t really have a bucketlist, but if I did, a couple of things which would be on it have been ticked off this year. In January, I fulfilled a childhood dream and went to the European Figure Skating Championships. The flipside is I got to spend some time in Sheffield but there was skating [...]
“Remind me why you are doing this again.”
Someone seriously said this to me yesterday; in relation to the fact that I have 2 maths assignments and a stats assignment due in the next 6 weeks. The two maths ones are some what urgent; the stats one slightly less so.
The Open University is an amazing thing. [...]
It’s finished. I haven’t posted about it because I’ve been very busy, not doing this, amongst other things. However, it’s done.
The pattern is as follows:
2x 50g of Kidsilk Haze
7mm circular needles.
Cast on 141 stitches.
Knit stocking stitch until you are very, very close to running out of yarn. Guess roughly where you’re going to still get [...]
This is a wave from Couminole Strand. I know it as being near where the Ranga wrecked, and featuring in “possibly some few waves from Dinglesurf’s surf reports” I was there last weekend, and I took a lot of photographs. I loved it.
Why do I live in Dublin again?
I drove roughly 850km last weekend. I [...]
The price of me going to Brittany for a few days is that Brittany crops up a lot in my mind for a while afterwards.
Okay.
This is where I was 7 days ago. the photograph was taken from a beach called La Torche which is one of the more reputed surfing, and now kitesurfing also, beaches [...]
As I type, photographs are dropping from my camera onto my laptop, about 500 of them between 3 cards I think. I have been in Brittany, for two days.
I love Brittany – most people who know me, know this. But it has to take some rare form of crazy to go there for just 2 [...]
Second effort looked a little better.
I really should stop taking photographs with my phone though; it really isn’t the same as a proper camera.
If you don’t know what Finnish Pulla is, this photograph is not really going to illuminate you. This is because of oven related issues. It decides randomly what temperature it’s going to be; I’ve moaned about it before so will refrain from doing so here.
Here’s the wikipedia page on Pulla. And here is the book [...]
I did Mathsjam during the week.
This is Mathsjam and in Dublin it turns up at Against the Grain on a street which I believe is called Wexford Street, although at the risk of outing myself as still a blow in, I’ve never been entirely sure of the lines between South Great Georges Street, Aungier Street, [...]