Melodi

One of the really horrible things about this story (for those of us who help with animal rescue) was that not only were the dogs just shot rather than properly euthanized, but they were shot by shelter KNOWING the no-kill shelter people were on their way to collect them. Shooting domestic animals is not considered a proper form of…[Read more]

Very sad news, I am very sorry to hear about this. They will be greatly missed.

Yeah, I just paid something like 70 dollars in shipping for two weaving books – I mean I got the books discounted but the shipping was outrageous and again out of the control of the author. I am starting to suspect that shipping isn’t just censorship it is also an attempt to prevent people from sending things back and forth at all – even…[Read more]

Book Depository is great but I’m pretty sure the money doesn’t get back to Joseph. I use it to order older crafts books (like knitting and weaving) plus occasionally old novels we can’t find anywhere else.

Which unfortunately is now treated as a foreign country – I got Microcosm and Medium from Lulu US in about a week. I may try the UK the next time but between paying in pounds and paying extra tariffs and charges I’m not sure which option is “better,” and sadly both are kind of expensive (not Joseph’s fault, he doesn’t control that part of…[Read more]

I got half way through and had some things to do, just came back a couple of hours later and it has been “removed from You Tube for violating Company Standards!” I hope Joseph an the host can get it up somewhere else or at least put in the members area of the site – this is outrageous!

I’ve used the clothing of the Old Believer’s when doing speculative Norse clothing. The women still wear essentially apron dresses (there is a debate if they are Norse or from Russian Coats without sleeves but they look the same) and their fantastic tradition of woven belts (I’ve made a few now). Very interesting people I do have to say.

I think that happened a couple of weeks ago, but he’s now able to talk about it some. In the future, he would make a great guest interview but obviously not right now – it is very sad.

Ireland is currently between the vortexes, last week we had snow, sleet, hail, and bitter cold (for Ireland about 24 to 28 degrees F). The last two days it has gone up into the 50s but it is supposed to go back down below freezing with a potential for more snow around tomorrow or Thursday. Now the United Kingdom REALLY got whacked, in…[Read more]

Husband and I were just talking about this, his thinking was the weather situation may be a natural Polar Vortex, he did wonder if the collapsing grids might be part of a cyber attack of sorts possibly from Iran or elsewhere.
While I can see his point (and it has merit) it feels to me more like an aging grid, that has been both underfunded…[Read more]

Quote of the day…

I just watched it a couple of hours ago on BBC2 it was really good,.

Hi I didn’t realize how this worked, that everyone can read this but that’s OK – Daniel felt he need a break (per the lats vid chat) I think Joseph is looking at other ways to have the dialogs but I picked a bad time to suggest a “scholars debate and/or discussion” on the pre-Germanic World View – so I’m going to drop the subject for now unless it…[Read more]