Well, I’ve just come back from a few days in Swanage. I got the flight from Seville to Gatwick and it was very good. The times have changed slightly, which meant that I got the train rather than the coach as otherwise there would have been quite a lot of waiting around. Comparing the two, I actually prefer the coach, but that is largely as there was nowhere to put my case on any part of the train journey and also this wasn’t helped by the fact I created my own route by getting off at the wrong stop.
I took my laptop with me and this worked really well. I actually was surprisingly productive and feel that I have come back relatively on top of things. I wrote two articles at the airport, which has actually put me ahead this week. It also meant that Ian and I were conversing via webcam, we were planning to introduce Olly to the gang, but we’ll save that for next time. The webcam was actually quite good and worked well. We all enjoyed watching Davy hitting Ian when we were talking to him.
I got home and found that Ian had put lights in the kitchen – up by the sink. This is great and makes the kitchen look really nice. These are just temporary lights, but as we didn’t have any up there, it was a bit of a black hole.
The puppies seem reasonably pleased to see me – oh, and so was Ian!
The weather has been very wet today, which is good really for the water levels, but we had planned to go out asparagus picking – so we had to have pizza instead – heyho.
I’ve had an email from a company in the US who want some help with a hairpin lace loom. I’ve written about Hairpin lace – Click Here, and Click Here, and Click Here. They want me to help them with the launch of a hairpin loom (rather than using a bent coathanger). I don’t think this will be too big a job, and I think I will be doing it in return for goods, however I don’t think I can really turn anything down – even though I didn’t want to take anything else on at the moment.
I’ve started promoting MakeForBaby.com – I’ve written a couple of pages you can see Click Here and Click Here, I’m hoping that these will point people back to our makeforbaby site.
I have bought some oil to make soap, so Ian is looking forward to the taste of soap infiltrating all our cookware. I have bought coconut and palm oils. These are solid oils, I can obviously buy olive oil relatively cheaply, however they need an oil like coconut or palm to make them creamy. The 2kgs of oil I had confiscated last time at the airport would have done, but delightfully now I have enough that when mixed with olive oil, it will keep us in soap for months.