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Such A Bad Blogger...

I haven't blogged in over two months! Oh lots of reasons why, mainly due to lack of time, and that's also why KnitCast is late. The Welsh general election has kept me busy at work and sorting through my various hoardings, desperately trying to downsize has kept me a little busy too.

Last weekend I sorted through twenty years worth of clothes. Yes. TWENTY YEARS! I actually had stuff from far back as 14. Hannah helped me and joked that she could see the various stages I'd been through in life, including the extended Goth period. Which never really went away entirely. I gave 99.9 per cent of it away to charity, Hannah and others had some too. I feel really good about it because now I can buy more clothes with impunity. Ummmm....can't I?! :)

Now onto KnitCast. That's mainly been delayed because I haven't quite made the switch from editing audio on a PC to editing audio on a Mac. It's a bit ironic considering that I am Mac mad and rather evangelical about them! A certain Mac friend of mine is probably laughing at this! Although Macs are superior to PCs, don't crash as often, don't really get viruses etc. they also don't have as many software programs written for them. So my main bug bare is that Nero Wave Editor which I used to use to edit is not available for the Mac. I can't edit quite as finely with Audacity as I'd like and anyone who's listened to Knitcast will know how I love my editing. I think though that I may have to worry less about editing since I would like to get a podcast out before the end of the month.

And speaking of podcasting, I'm hoping to record some interviews when I go on holiday to New York in July. I'll be there for the first week of July and I have some ideas for interviews and I'll be contacting people soon about those. However I do want to leave the majority of my trip for shopping! It'll be my third visit to NYC and my second trip to the Garment District. I'm really looking forward to it! Let's hope I don't go over my baggage weight allowance on the way home!

I wasn't quite sure exactly what I was going to blog about today but Jeni has tagged me so I'm going to finish with the Seven Random Things About Me...warning they are very random!

* I love Woody Allen films, although I tend to prefer his earlier, funnier ones! (in joke!) My favourites are Manhattan and Annie Hall. I can never choose between the two and have watched both far too many times to count.

* I've wanted to live in America since I was a kid. I intend to fulfill this dream one day :)

* Madonna - I've been a fan of hers for nearly twenty two years! I still have lace gloves from my teenage years!

* Spring is my favourite season. I love seeing the bulbs come up and trees blossom after a cold winter.

* Nature makes me feel very spiritual. There's something godlike almost in growing things from seed and I also have a quiet fascination with how numbers appear in nature. However I'm crap at maths!

* I love order but somehow always end up in chaos. I'm incredibly untidy!

* I'm really into astrology. Well ok, I do read several horoscopes each day and pick and choose which bits I like, but I do think there's more than an element of truth in them.

Now I have to decide whom to tag...I'll have to think about that and update this later

Paris, Birthday and Batman!

I *love* this birthday card given to me by my friend Liz! It's fab! I think Mariko will appreciate this card! I also want to find out where you can buy sprinkles shaped like stars.

I'm so tired. Saturday was a very long day because we did make it to the market early, it was very hot and later there were delays in getting back home. Travelling from France back to the UK was not the problem, that was great and very efficent, but there were delays in getting from London to Cardiff.

I tried to blog from Paris but my typepad email didn't work. Here's a brief taste of our Paris trip - Thursday was my birthday and our first full day in Paris. We did some shopping including buying yarn and chocolate at Le Bon Marche and Le Grande Epicerie and saw Batman Begins at the cinema. It was a VO, version orginale, and had French subtitles that weren't distracting. It was great and the audience broke out into applause at the end! Of course I put a lot of its success down to the fact that Batman is played by a Welshman!:-)

I'm even more tired today because we only managed to sleep for a couple of hours last night. It was unbearably hot and neither of us could get to sleep. It also didn't help when at about 2 or 3am, I forget the exact time, some noisy people in one of the flats next door to us came home and decided to talk very loudly and play music. I couldn't tune it out.

Oh and I've had some problems sending and recieving email since I got home. I think it's ok now but I will be resending out some emails  that I don't think got through.

More on our trip tomorrow and my meeting with the lovely Kate Gilbert and her other half!

Oscars and Saints

Well I'm just about to go to bed. Stayed up all night watching The Oscars. Managed to do a little work on my top down raglan although it was a struggle to try and knit and stay awake.

My thoughts on The Oscars are over at The Film Review Blog.

Oh and it's Saint David's Day today! The patron saint of Wales! In New York the Empire State Building has been lit up in the Welsh colours!

Soft toys

Since Andy's Valentine's gift hadn't arrived in time I said that I would assemble the soft toy Corgi kit I'd given to him as one of his Christmas presents. His gradparents used to breed corgis so he likes them a lot. I started it last night after we came home from our meal at the Japanese noodle bar. The instructions aren't the clearest and I ended up having the ears on twice after I made a mistake. I'd also forgotten how difficult it is to sew fur fabrics especially when they're in such small pieces.

Today I finished his head and started on his body.

Now it's certainly not the best stitching effort ever. As you can see one of his ears is bigger than the other and he's slightly cock eyed! But he's still cute! :-)

Tomorrow I'll finish the sewing and we may even get around to stuffing him.

Haven't done a great deal of knitting today, did a bit on the second Trekking sock and plan on making a little headway on the multi yarn scarf before bed.

Tonight we saw Something's Gotta Give starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. For my review head over to The Film Review Blog.