phantym_56: (nick doody)
Right now, what upsets me is this:

Old Rope Monday - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/98550 @andrewismaxwell Milton Jones @RobinInce @NickDoody etc

From Twitter.

Nick Doody and Milton Jones are in my Top Four comedians and Andrew Maxwell is easily in my Top Ten and I want to go so much and I can't! It starts at 7.30 and I know from experience that it's not possible to get to central London by 7.30 if I leave work at 5.00pm and I have no more holiday time. Some bastard has gone "Who are Phantym's favourite comedians? Let's sprinkle them all over a show she can't go to!! Mwahahaha!!"

So that's what upsets me today. Bastards!

Oh well. Sometimes Lady Luck shines down with her golden light of fortune - sometimes Fate needs a helping hand. As it happens, Nick Doody will be at Godless Christmas on Wednesday. I must just shrug and say I saw Andrew Maxwell four times at Altitude and once more at his own tour a week later so don't go getting upset that you'll miss him on Monday and that I'll see Milton Jones one day when the time is right. Serene... (Nothing against Robin Ince, I'll see him on Wednesday but he isn't in my Top Ten.)

Shall I do my Top Ten? I muse on my Top Four occasionally because I genuinely don't know what order to put them all in but I don't tend to think beyond that.

My Top Ten Comedians. Or Top Seven plus eight Honourable Mentions )
Snowchains for feet. I have made a second one so I don't have to hop )
Going out dressed oddly and jewellery )
I should go to bed. I'm a little tired. Quite tired, actually. Slept really well the last two nights. Further evidence that my cold is a nice ordinary one - after one day, I was pretty much better, my nose is behaving itself reasonably well already and by Monday I should have forgotten I ever had it. Hello wonderful immune system, I've missed you! *hugs immune system*
phantym_56: (ed - lawnmower)

My beloved Rangers failed to turn up for the third time this term tonight. I drive 12 miles each way and it angers me to do that and then find they've not only not turned up but not bothered to tell me they're not turning up. Three times in one term. That really didn't help me feeling abandoned and let down.

So I came home and got on with some work. I came back from lunch today going "You know what would be handy? Snow chains... for shoes..." So I spent the afternoon planning and drawing and went to B&Q for some chain on the way to Rangers and that's what I've been doing.

Making hundreds of pairs of earrings from wire in no way qualifies one to work with heavy-duty galvanised chain but I got there eventually. I have grated silvery stuff all over my bed and my fingers ache from the effort of prising the loops open but I have produced a snow chain for my welly. Only one. It took far more chain than I expected and I don't have enough left to make a second one. The design needs some modification; it was fine while I was building it but when I took it off and tried to put it back on again, it went a bit pear-shaped. It won't quite fit properly and keeps sliding down at the back and on the toe. Slightly longer links on the sides are needed, I think. But for a first attempt at semi-serious metalwork, I don't think it's too bad at all.

Pictures of my home-made snow chains fitted to my welly boot )


They don't look too bad, do they? My wellies, you may notice, are quite badly worn. Have you ever seen worn-out wellies? Did you know such a thing was possible? No, neither did I. And my mother can laugh but just wait until the next snowfall when I stride out confident on my be-chained feet while she slithers around. Of course, if the next snowfall can wait until I've built a second one and made a few minor modifications, that would be lovely.

Incidentally, the boy who sold me the chain in B&Q told me "Have a good night". I don't know what he thought I was planning to do with chains but I bet it wasn't what I actually did with it.

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