40 by Forty

So, what's this challenge all about? Of all the things I like from Facebook (not that there's loads - mostly it's just a helpful way to avoid having to speak to people), my favourite is the daily memories. There's something about looking back on what was important enough that day to warrant sharing that makes me appreciate both the past and the present in a very particular way. Of late, though, I've not been posting as much as I used to do, so this challenge will ensure I've got plenty of memories in the future, once my old brain has long forgotten them.  Plus, every Christmas my mum asks for a photo calendar as a present. This will make sure we're well prepared with pictures come winter time.  A click of the digital shutter to Laura for this one. How's it going to work? Again, this one is nice and straightforward. I have to take a picture and share it on Facebook each day. I'm playing fairly fast and loose with the term "pi...

Two challenges for the price of one!  Now that's the sort of efficiency this whole debacle needs if I'm going to get through all forty before April Fools' Day 2019!  (As an aside, Firefox's spell checker doesn't know the word "debacle" nor, indeed, the name Firefox.  Debacle isn't that odd a word, is it?  Anyway, back to it!) These challenges are courtesy of... Andy Law (hair dye) and Juliet Swann (Pride). The challenges Oddly, both of these challenges appeal to me because of my dad, John.  On a rather prosaic level, he's never had much hair in the time I've known him.  Granted, he wasn't young when I was born, but he's the reason I always assumed I'd be shaving my head by the age of 21.  As it turns out, I'm threatening 40 and still sporting a pretty decent head of hair.  (In fairness, my cousin John (we're economising on names) is a good chunk older than I am and still fully be-haired.  Clearly the hair genes from...

This post is being written a couple of days early (Thursday), as we're away up to visit my mum (she of the thank you cards challenge ) for the weekend.  Thus, any long term updates are as of Thursday the 7th. This challenge is courtesy of... Lindsay Law, who provided a lot of suggestions, although not quite as many as Andy.  Expect to see her name here again, too. The challenge It is 100 years since (some) women won the right to vote in the UK.  To mark the centenary, a host of events, commemorations and programmes are going on across the year.  One of these is a co-ordinated, women only series of marches called Processions .  The Processions marches are happening on 10 June (hence the early blog post), with one in Edinburgh.  While men aren't allowed at the march, Lindsay suggested I make a banner to be carried by someone more female than I. Challenge accepted. Now, it should be noted that I'm not the most crafty person in the world. Even giv...

So, what's this challenge all about? I read a lot.  A LOT.  After board games, it's probably my second biggest leisure activity.  Back in the days of physical media, I had to make regular runs to the charity shop just to clear space on my bookshelves.  The introduction of e-books was a godsend for me!  Even now, with limited time due to children, I tend to get through around 12- 24 books a year, and not small books either.  We're talking 500 page fantasy doorstoppers.  But my reading habits can get into a rut.  I like what I like and find it hard to branch out, so this challenge both encourages me to read more broadly in terms of authors, but also in terms of genre. A tip of the hat to Juliet for this one. How's it going to work? This one is pretty straightforward.  Any book I read for entertainment has to be written by a female author.  Instructional manuals are exempt, such as the drawing course I've been following, as a...