Restoration Day is on Sale!

Guess what? This is the week of the Smashwords Read An E-book Week sale, and consequently Restoration Day is on sale for half price.

That’s $2.25 for Kiwis and Aussies, $1.50 for Americans, $2.00 for Canadians and £1.25 for those wielding pounds sterling. Excellent value for hours of reading enjoyment! Slow reader? Better value for money!

Click here for more information, a free 20% sample, or to snap a copy up. Multiple formats available to suit the pickiest of digital devices.

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How to Live a Happy Life: Advice for Cats

Rule ONE. VERY IMPORTANT. Do not allow other cats to bite you in the bum.

Either learn to fight, or learn to run. Because humans are uptight beings, and if they find a sizeable hole in your hindquarters that did not appear in the original design, you will be shoveled into the Box of Illimitable Dread and this will happen:

Actual bum not shown out of deference to the sensibilities of our readers.

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Aaaand this is why GAUGE is a thing.

There is a category on this blog marked Current Obsession. It is there for a reason. Generally my current obsession is either worked off in library books, or in handwork – the DPN/hook case, for example, or the Dishonour Cow. (Sometimes it is worked off in books about handwork.)

Frequently, however, the more hands-on obsessions are unwise to pursue, or at the very least imprudent, and this is why I use the Caped Gooseberry as a Sensible Sounding Board, because he doesn’t fall under the enchantment that the putative project projects on to me (or that the putative projects project on to me, if plural).

On the other hand, I can be very persuasive when in the grip of an obsession. Continue & Comment