Hmm, from the time that's passed you'd be forgiven for thinking I don't have much to say these days. I really don't.
Umm. Tube strike in London today. Silly people stand forlornly at the shut gates hoping everything will magically start running. More silly people get angry and rude at staff and each other. It's like Christmas. You knew it was coming, they told you it was happening.
What else? My new favourite word is Catawampus. It means out of alignment, or diagonal. For example:
"We walked catawampus across the field"
or
"The tubes are all catawampus today".
I started my next Open University module in Grammar this month and discovered a blog that might just pull me through it:
She's called Laura. She's a linguist. She blogs about it. My favourite post is where she takes sweary tweets and analyses them for grammatical accuracy. Verdict: not very.
And I finally found a use for some blackboard paint I bought a year ago on one of my well-intended creative benders.
I loved the paper place mats we had at the wedding:
So whilst I could never achieve the levels of intricacy and detail with my catawampus handiwork, I did manage to jazz up some plain slate place mats I had lying around. I painted two coats of blackboard paint directly onto the clean and dry placemats and coasters. Then when that had dried I stencilled, pencilled and painted the design with a tester pot of matt bathroom paint.
Sure it looks like a ten year old did it. But it looks like they had fun in the process.
