A Celebration of Mundanity

I do have more interesting things to write about, we've been pretty busy this past week. But, um, wow. The latest episode of Dexter is intense. That is all.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Mark and I are both working today, we'll be cooking our Thanksgiving on Sunday for a couple English friends.  Although, it just won't be complete without our trademark…

After a weekend of the most annoying and irritating internet problems, I've finally been able to upload our Turkey book. If you are so inclined, you can order your own copy here. I only just ordered…

Well, that was fast. Wasn't it just a couple of weeks ago when I was quickly poached from Botany by the Entomology department as a volunteer? Yesterday was my first day as an official employee of the…

The Turkey travel book is done, which has a total of 164 pages! Not a bad size for a photo and travel journal book of a two week trip. It's currently in the proof reading and editing phase in Mark's…

The other morning on the BBC morning news, they did a segment on the whole "Stitch n' Bitch" phenomenon. There were even knitters "knitting live" having created a hat and fingerless gloves in the…

It was so sunny and inviting outside this morning I proclaimed to Mark, "we need to *go* somewhere, or *do* something!" We started looking around for nearby National Trust attractions or parks or…

I thought I would try to find the theater that was putting on a matinée production of an Agatha Christie mystery play. What actually happened, since I didn't find the correct theater, is that I was…

Here we are again, in Blackpool, in the off season, again. What to do? I can always find somewhere for a hike. On the far south end of the long stretch of beach is a treasure. I spent several hours…