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I have this pair of trousers I think of as my 'hobbit pants'. This is because they are brown linen 3/4 length pants that look a lot like what Frodo wears in the LOTR movie. They are also two sizes too big for me and so very comfortable and great in hot weather. I was wearing them last weekend. Then on Sunday afternoon I sat down on the sofa and RRRRIP!
'Oh no!' says I. 'I have just ripped this big hole in my pants.'
'Nope,' says Andy. 'That was already there.'
'What do you mean already there?'
'It's been there all weekend.'
'You mean this whole weekend at the shops, at the library, I've been walking around with a big hole in my pants? Why didn't you tell me?'
'I thought you knew it was there and just didn't care.'

Um, yeah I do care. Just a bit.
Fortunately the hole was in the leg of the pants, not the seat. But still, it's a bit of a bummer, if you'll excuse the pun. That's the third pair of old, well loved pants that have gone to the great tailor's shop in the sky this year. These ones were ten years old. That's quite a lot in pant- years.

I have spent most of my spare time this week so far writing up a set of notes for a class on feast organisation that I am giving on Saturday. Tomorrow night we are taking the kids to the Waymouth St street party that is happening as part of the Fringe, and I am hoping next weekend we can take them to Shakespeare for Kids at the Holden St Theatre.

No, actually five. A meme, actually, from irreparable. If you want me to give you five topics/questions then say so in the comments.

My five:

1. What's your favourite board game?
It's probably a game called Arkham Asylum, which is a cooperative game in which the players travel around the town of Arkham trying to stop one of the Great Old Ones from arising (and destroying the world usually). Some people don't like it because the odds are stacked heavily against the players to win, but I don't mind that - it justs adds to the atmosphere. I'm also quite fond of Fury of Dracula and Cleopatra and the Society of Architects (but the latter may be because I usually win when playing this).

2. Which dance was the hardest to learn?
There's a 16th century Italian dance called Leggiadria d'Amore which I really struggled to get the hang of because it has an asymmetrical chorus (you do something on one foot that you don't do on the other). It's really screwy.

3. SCA
The most fun you can have with someone else's clothes on? There are some legitimate criticisms of the SCA as far as re-enactment goes, but for me it's still the main game because a) I like the flexibility to be 16th century one day and 12th century the next if the mood takes me, and b) it's the biggest game in town (especially in this town) and so you're more likely to find an event to your liking with people to your liking (or have the opportunity to cook for 150 people if that's your thing, and it happens to be mine).

4. What's your favourite thing to cook?
Ohhhh...this is a tricky one. It's difficult to tease out what I like to cook from what I like to eat. And there are so many excellent things to both cook and eat. Some days what I most want to cook is the thing I really want to eat. And sometimes my favourite thing to cook is something simple but done just right. And sometimes it's something amazing and virtuosic. So, picking some things at random ... hand-made pasta, tiramisu, pancakes, calisciones (fried marzipan pastries), falafel.

5. Statistics
A deeply misunderstood topic. I am constantly surprised by the range of uses for statistics and statistical methods, and constantly frustrated by their misunderstanding and misuse.