Hello; misc

[juliet]

I hate editing. (She says, 8 pages down, 16 to go. Deadline Monday, which really means today or at most tomorrow for practical reasons.)

I keep not blogging here, because I haven't blogged here, because (insert customary spiel re catching up and not feeling able to catch up and...). I blog over there sometimes and it propagates magically over here, but I am less inclined to write personal-ish posts there.

Anyway! Stuff! Things! Leon is 2, using more and more complicated language structures (pronouns are very tricky), and obsessed with the written word (with particular reference to tube station names). I am writing about computer history for Linux Voice which is fascinating and great fun; trying to write more fiction; and doing more permaculture work. Yesterday I gave a talk at the Edible Gardens Show, which I think went OK, and will probably blog about next week. Bloody terrifying though; it's the first time I've spoken in public for years&years. I doubtless talked too fast.

Time is elusive. I am sure there used to be more of it. Or I used it better? (Every time I angst about this I remind myself that I used to not have a kid, and children are kind of time-sinks. In a good way, mostly.)

I am making more things, though. Sewing especially. I still love knitting, but sewing is quicker.

So. Things. Misc. There you go.

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Yay stuff! And things! Especially ace-sounding 2-year-olds.

Sympathy on the time thing - can very much relate to that one.

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

I was rather obsessed with tube station names at that age apparently too. As well as reading out the letters, I also learned all the piccadilly line stations off by heart (that was the line I travelled on to get to nursery each day), the combination of which often astonished the other passengers. I guess if you live in London it's one of the main bits of writing in large letters that you see - as opposed to here where car registration plates occupied the same niche for Owen.

[juliet]

Yes; he's also keen on PLEASE WAIT which shows up in lots of places :) And has now started reading "London Borough of Southwark" off the bottom of every street name sign. We did kind-of encourage the tube names -- not deliberately exactly, but if you're waiting on a platform with a child in a sling it's an obvious sort of thing to look at and talk about.