Raithe

Just for that delivery...

And for everyone's general entertainment, how it all ended: Of course, now I have to be squinty eyed on whether I made it the right size for my friend. I guess we will find out when it's her birthday next month.

Publishing: Expectations vs Reality - ILONA ANDREWS (ilona-andrews.com)

Juggling through reading some heavy in-depth technical reports for work, with appropriate breaks to do some leatherworking as I craft this birthday present for a friend...

BBC - Coco Lee

Doing a momentary pause in between the work things to look up some leatherworking tools. Then realise that they're being sold by a guy in Bulgaria with a storefront titled "D & S Ltd"... The perils of getting into leatherworking is that half the useful hobbycraft tools for it end up costing half the price of the item for shipping since they tend to be shipped from America or Eastern Europe...

Sky - Julian Sands spoke about the dangers of mountain climbing months before his death