Isn't It

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

Smokeshow

The tour de fleece posts have begun and I'm feeling envy, I have been slowly (and thus far unsuccessfully) been trying to buy a spinning wheel for weeks.

Spinning wheels aren't that hard to acquire normally, but I want the kind my friend Dafydd invented that folds itself into a little cabinet. And my friend Dafydd is a 70 year old man who builds stuff for fun so I don't know if he has any wheels finished right now or if he'd be willing to make me one. And also I don't have his phone number so I just have to go places he's likely to be until I find him, and the range of places he could be is wide. Last time he disappeared for a few weeks he'd literally gone to Antarctica.

Found him!

Some old fella came up to me at work and asked a question only he didn’t quite figure out if he should call me “sir” or “ma’am” by the time he got to the end of his sentence and in a moment of apparent panic ended up saying “captain” instead. Absolutely made my day.

Richard Calver (Canadian, 1946-2021), Dandelions Rejoicing, 2000. Colour linocut on paper, 18 ¼ x 13 ¼ in. Edition of 50