I really shouldn’t buy that whisky sea salt fudge from that shop in town. I go through a single bag in a couple of days and then wonder why I’m feeling as if I’ve been overeating.

I’ve been tidying my bedroom/study. A number of large piles of RPG supplements and beading/patchwork magazines are now carefully organised stacks of RPG supplements and beading/patchwork magazines. So much better.

Now that I’ve got a bit further with “making up a bag using cotton scraps via foundation piecing”, I need to move on to trying the next step, which is “making up a bag using silk scraps via foundation piecing”. On the negative side, this will produce a much more fragile bag. On the positive side, some people may want a more-fragile-but-made-of-silks bag. It’s hard to satisfy a taste when you don’t really share it. I know I’d always go for the more solid bag.

Snow started locally midmorning and went on till just after lunch. It was very pretty. None of it lay locally, I’m glad to say, though fingers crossed that we don’t have any ice tomorrow. So far (touch wood) not quite the drama that the newspapers have been warning is us coming.

Gave way to temptation and ordered some art books from Dover Books, as follows:
http://www.doverbooks.co.uk/pp/Images_On_CDROM/Fine_Art_on_CD/120_Great_Fairy_Paintings_CD-ROM_and_Book.html
http://www.doverbooks.co.uk/pp/Images_On_CDROM/Art_Nouveau%2C_Deco/60_Great_Art_Nouveau_Posters_Platinum_DVD_and_Book.html
http://www.doverbooks.co.uk/pp/Images_On_CDROM/Fine_Art_on_CD/120_Great_Victorian_Fantasy_Paintings_CD-ROM_and_Book.html
I have some Cunning Plans about printing out some images from these on fabric and incorporating them in quilts. Time will tell if these Cunning Plans actually work. I already have a few other books in that series (Japanese Prints, Japanese Ghosts & Demons, and Decorative Butterfly Illustrations), and the theory seems sound, so we shall see. In between, you know, everything else I’m doing.

HMV is apparently about to go into administration. Dammit. I like being able to go to a high street store and look through new CDs/DVDs/etc. Even if one can download tons of stuff, or buy from amazon, it’s not the same.

The government has unveiled its new pension policy. Analyses seem mixed. I do not wish to be too prejudiced, but at the same time I would not trust the current government to pour its own piss out of a boot with instructions written on the sole. Therefore I am nervous. I know it’s about twenty-five years off for me yet, but even so.