Stash busting!

Well, this probably won't be of interest to most of you, but especially for peppapig, I can confirm that the BGA (The Big Gay Afghan) is go!

Okay, so for those of you are now curious, the BGA is called the BGA because it started with a bunch of scarves cuvalwen and I knitted one year for many of our gay friends. These were in a variety of rainbow colours and form the foundation for the rather large amount of stash I collected along the same vein. I was going to knit the odds and ends into squares, but the sheer horror of sewing all these squares together made me re-think the problem.

So I'm crocheting an afghan out of the yarn. Sound fun?

Well, no. It's fun fur (aka eyelash yarn). Crochet is not recommended. But I'm having a go and it seems to be okay so far. I've now got a (tentative) 18" square and a pile more yarn to attach. There will be pictures. Promise!

In other news had a scary moment this morning when the building I work in began to shake quite a lot. Not sure why, but it was really weird. Mind you, the place shakes when big lorries go past outside, so it probably wasn’t much. What really gets me is that the building has, supposedly, blastproof windows. I suspect that, if one where to go off outside, while the windows would be okay, the building itself wouldn't!

No canteen from hell horror stories today, guaranteed. I'm going out for lunch as I need new shoes!

Book Review: Slow Hands by Leslie Kelly

Yeah, so I may have mentioned, way, way back in February, that, in the good cause of becoming better read,* I was going to download the free Harlequin books that Fictionwise were touting for Valentine's Day and then review them all for you. Yes, all fifteen of them. And then there was silence.

I bet you all thought I'd chickened out, eh?

No. But I did have major technical issues and also a propensity to not have any time to sit down with my laptop and read. Well, on Sunday I did (Well, ish. I decided that ripping my CDs and sorting out the software issue were important. I finished the CDs but gave up on the software!) So, the first book review is under the cut. Come on, I dare you!!!

( Harlequin Romance 1 – Slow Hands )

ETA: Oh, I forgot to add - the technical issues are now resolved (as of this morning) so expect more reviews soon!!!

* Or, come to think of it, that may have been a completely different discussion!