Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Plain black socks, get out and learning the ropes.

1. Only imagine my joy at finding packs of reasonably priced thermal knee-high socks in the softest plain black.

2. As I go out for the evening, Nick and Bettany are about to start making a complicated type of icing involving eggs and hot sugar syrup. On the whole, I'm pleased to be leaving them to it.

3. We've had a change of gaming system, and none of us knows what we're doing. With a lot of fumbling, though, there's a lot of laughter, and an airship.

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In the night, fish and steel.

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