Make a crocheted curly doll friend

Super-galactic travelling friends,

I've been seeing a lot of crochet clown dolls pop up on my Pinterest where you make a crocheted curl/curlicue as it's arms and legs, and since I made a wind spinner recently, I thought it would be fun to try and make another style of the curly crochet.

I didn't want to make a clown though, just a random doll, and so I went ahead without doing any planning, and that's where I went wrong...my little guy didn't turn out terribly, but it's not quite how I saw it in my head either.

However, I still wanted to pop it on here as I plan to try and make one again at some point in the future, and hopefully see some improvement between the next time and this time. Also, I think sharing projects that didn't go as you hoped are just as important as ones that do. The internet is full of perfect projects, and sometimes it's good to remember that it's ok for projects to come out imperfect too 😆

Anyway enough blabbering, are you ready to see my little weirdo?

Winning Wednesdays

My super-galactic travelling friends,

Wednesday has arrived once again, and with it a couple kinda wins, and one major win!

Five ways to make pub crawls more interesting when you're on the more sober side of life

Super-galactic travelling friends, 

Since cutting way down on alcohol I've been out to pubs many times since. Most of the time it's just going for a couple then heading home, but a couple of times it's been mini pub crawls, where I've gone to three or four places over an evening.

While I may have a half pint at one of them if they have a particularly interesting looking beer, I'll stick to alcohol free drinks the rest of the time.

However, not drinking when you're going to lots of pubs can get boring, even when you're enjoying the company of those you're with, so here's some ways to spice up that night out when you don't want to drink but still want to have fun while out with mates or family.

Attempting to make air fryer apple wedges

Super-galactic travelling friends, 

the other week I made some air fryer wedges, and couldn't believe how quick and easy they were to make (kinda wish I'd take some pics so I could have done a post with the recipe, but I'll do that next time I make them!)

It got me thinking though about wedge based foods I could do in the air fryer...sweet potato wedges...squash wedges...root veg wedges...and then I thought, oooh, apple wedges as a pudding!

Weekly photo dump 31st August-6th September 2026

Super-galactic travelling friends,

another Sunday, another set of photo dumps, so let's go!

Classic smokers are out, Ninja woodfire electric BBQ grill and smoker is in!

Super-galactic travelling friends

many of us love a barbecue, but I think many of us also, a lot of the time, can't be arsed to have one. 

Getting out the barbecue, realising we didn't clean it well enough last time we used it over a year ago and having to give it a good clean, or realising it's gone rusty and having to rush out to buy a new one if you have people coming over.

You then have to get the charcoal for it, which you struggle to light, go back out to get firelighters, wait for it to get up to temperature, then finally when you can start to cook you have to fiddle around with the food because of the temperature due to hot and cold spots, and then about eight hours late you finally get to eat.

Of course, you can always just buy an electric barbecue, but then you miss out on the lovely smoky flavours a barbecue brings, and honestly at that point just buy an air fryer that can grill as it's cheaper and easier to store, plus you can use it indoors all year long...that's how I felt anyway, until I learnt about the Ninja smoker.

National Lottery set for life win lose tally end of month one

Fellow super-galactic travellers, 

my previous month's set for life lottery ticket has come to an end, which means it's time to share with you how I did in the last month, which ended up being