13 January, 2009

The Trouser Project has taken another step towards production as the camo shorts pattern is with Whitehall Cutting being all CAD’ed up for cutting. Very exciting. A whole new world of technical terms has just opened up for me. I thought IT was bad for acronyms but it turns out the clothing world is as bad. Took me a while to understand what a CMT was – apparently the name for someone who Cuts, Makes and Trims or, in my world, the person who makes the stuff. All going well the shorts should be available as a short run some time in the next few months.

Our little Swatch cordless phone that we use at home has finally given up the ghost. It was one of those late 90s beasties with an answer machine and handset that look a bit like jelly beans. Great colour, easy to use (if you ignore all the ‘features’), big yellow talk button and generally very cool. It has been with great disappointment that we have gone shopping for a replacement to find that home phones are all fairly naff looking these days. In fact, so bad with their fake silver plastic looks that we have taken to using our even older corded Swatch phone instead. It would seem phone styles have gone the way of shoes and clothing and quietly gurgled down the toilet.

I have been spending my days beating up our hedge, chipping the remains, planting trees, breaking concrete, moving soil around, stacking firewood and generally getting a lot of exercise, sun and fresh air. In between that I have been enjoying social delinquency brought on by Grand Theft Auto 4. It really is a great time of year.