Happy New Year to everyone, and may you enjoy your procrastinating in 2015!

I'm putting off tackling a load of hen stuff (domestic tasks) by doing this, is my excuse...

Heading of topic edited to reflect seasonal conditions...

I'm not really procrastinating. I am refuelling with cheese and oatmeal biscuits before heading outside to do couple of jobs.

I am keen to go outside and get cold... I just need to finish the cheese first

We believe you, Jayne!

I'm having a quick break from sharing info with some of my cousins about a family funeral on Monday (mixture of facebook and e-mails) and answering an enquiry from a friend about the Lit Soc archive I look after. But it's almost time to go and eat cold beef and salad anyway.

I have been procrastinating all day with a jigsaw and some up-market colouring in. Lovely pencils that you can then wash over with a water-brush to kid yourself you are painting

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Cestina's dolls houses - À la mode...

Lots of them around Ariel. The Caran d'Ache Aquarelle are on Amazon or ebay, Derwent Inktense or Aquatone also - or I guess at any art shop?

Not cheap though but since these are my daughter's and she has had them for about 30 years I guess they pay their way!

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Cestina's dolls houses - À la mode...

We've just started the jigsaw we were given for Christmas today - very good procrastination tool

Edges sorted and done in the daylight, then a bit of time just now over coffee, sorting some of the main colours on to trays...

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to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e.cummings
http://stitchwords.blogspot.co.uk

Whereas my damaged back went *ping* this morning as I got dressed, and left me in such sudden agony that I didn't dare move from the spot for quite a while. So I'm now trying very hard to keep as still as I can and am lying here reading all my lovely Christmas books. How can I complain?

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"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?" (Montaigne)

Oh, I do sympathise. Get well soon!

Oh, Mary, what bad luck! Hope it feels better soon. Book therapy is always good...

I have procrastinated on Twitter, over email, and via Wordfeud's chat function, so now I'm moving over here to procrastinate some more.

I am in essay hell once again, I have to get 4000 words written by tomorrow, and I have only written about 40 (which Word wants to count as about 140, because it is including footnotes, which sadly don't count towards our word limit).

I have tried to cajole Miss Annersley into helping, but she's not really the cajole-able type (I've tried threats too, but she doesn't respond well to those either) *sigh*

I hate essays. Why did I decide to put myself through another year of this?

I've probably produced about 4000 procrastination-related words today, but sadly they do not count towards my word limit. Woe is me.

Oh gosh, Eleanore, that sounds stressful...

*sends chocolate and coffee to help you get through the ordeal*

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"And I'm sure there was blood in the gutter from somebody's head, or else it was the sunset in a puddle."

Thanks, Abi You don't want to write an opening paragraph for me, do you? *looks at Abi in a wildly hopeful and desperately optimistic fashion*

I'm sewing tablecloths. I dearly wish I weren't....

Well I'm about to spend an hour in an industrial fridge

Swap ?!

In fairness I've cut all the pieces now, just need to pin and sew the beasts...

I'm supposed to be preparing the introduction to my thesis, but I'm playing the Fauré Requiem instead. Well, that and feeding grapes to a poorly chicken.

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Someone cooking meat at the den of the fox said, "We do not mention this in front of the mongoose." Sumerian proverb

Outskirts Of The Twenties: Polari

Non-CS fic: Late Back (Good Omens)

Poor thing - they are also very fond of tuna (but be careful of oil on worktops ) and of natural yoghurt. I'll PM you a link to a picture of a special diet I once gave one of ours!

No thanks, I'd rather do the fridge stuff. Besides, my sewing skills are rather limited.

Today I have been amusing myself with a private game of Lost In Translation well, it livens up writing lists of madrigals and gregorian chant.

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Someone cooking meat at the den of the fox said, "We do not mention this in front of the mongoose." Sumerian proverb

Outskirts Of The Twenties: Polari

Non-CS fic: Late Back (Good Omens)

Evening all ! Any one for hot chocolate with cream and marsh mellows?

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Wishes the land of Merlin and magic was real