The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by dido:

Velma @109: Oh god. The first thing I wanted to be when I grew up was Secretariat. When my mom told me that was impossible I switched to Seattle Slew. (Yeah, a little unclear on the concept.) The last time I cried at a celebrity death was when they put him down.

Off pixelfish @118: The neighbor twins and I found a coffee can full of black sand in one of the dads' shops. We stole it and for reasons that are unclear tried throwing a pinch or two on a fire. We got about 1/4 of a can's worth of entertainment out of it before my dad discovered we tossing the black powder for his old muzzle-loader rifle on open fires to watch it flare up.

Yeah. Not sure how I survived childhood.

Race Horses @9

I have been working at the track as a groom/hotwalker for a few months now. I have figured out how to give a bath to a race-horse one handed and which ones are nutty and which ones are just dumb. It's almost noon. I've been working (and walking) since 5 and the King Nutjob decides to lose his mind on the back side of the barn, rears up and clobbers me right in the head. I estimate a 1/2 inch to the left and I wouldn't have a whole skull.

Would you believe they wanted me to go travel to a race that afternoon?

Leah Miller @17
Reginald Hill's Dalzeil and Pascoe novels are set in Yorkshire, and Andy Dalzeil has a lot of characteristic speech patterns. And Hill writes really great dialogue.

Tamsin, by Peter S. Beagle is set in Devon and some of the night people have strong Devon accents.

And then, of course, it's old and I don't know how accurate it is, but the Yorkshire "dialect" is a major component of the the Secret Garden.

TexAnne@8: I'm making the Peacock shawl too (Malabrigo lace weight in Vaa. It's so pretty it makes me dizzy.).

And a lace blanket, and a sweater for my sister. And a sweater for me.

I am trying to make my first story since high school. Scary. Even scarier than realizing that I dropped a stitch 6 rows ago when the rows are already 250+ stitches and . . . I also forgot a yo somewhere in there.

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