Wisps of fog - #2

So Ben over here tells me not to let not having anything worthwhile to say stop me filling up my small patch of cyberspace, so here goes (and I will even make this some kind of list):

1) I think my last crochet IQ was a little too easy, so here is another one for you. What do you think I am making? (You could be forgiven for thinking I have some kind of fetish for crocheted pentagons, which is not really the case, but this also happened to be made with pentagons - the options are endless really. Note: one of these is a hexagon. In this photo I am "blocking" them. These were particularly wonky, I think because I used two different kinds of wool.)

2) I have enrolled myself in a short poetry course! I have been thinking more about doing further study lately, and this is a taste - it's run by the head of the poetry school at Sydney University - and something stimulating to do. (And I found a course that is not entirely composed of workshopping!)

3) Shopping for pre-teen girls is hard. The "stuff" out there at the moment for teenagers is just plain weird. For example, Emily the Strange. And she comes with a very bad attitude. My nieces love cats, but I don't love cats with skeletons visible and stitches on their face. They also love stationary, but they won't be getting Emily's "stamps of disapproval" featuring "shut up" and "get lost". What happened to nice things?

4) Shucks! This post, and it's winning entry, makes me want to run a competition. :) I just have to work out what it is I would be offering ... (Nice tactic really. Have a prize and make men prove why they should get it. Once upon a time, or maybe only in the fairy tales, that is perhaps how these things worked.)