You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

something like a sugar skull. OHH?  I'll keep my eye out in my internet embroidery 'travels' just in case I come across one.

I spent some very happy hours weeding this morning.  When I weed I can spot things changing in the garden and there is already new spring growth. 

It's been 12 years today since mum died.  Time has just whizzed by.

Something along those lines. She is a heavy metal fan, and not just any heavy metal - German heavy metal, which in my totally uneducated opinion is noise and garbled gibberish played loud with a lot of flames in the background. So not goth, but eight piercings in each ear and a penchant for very high stacked sole lace up boots worn with lots of black might suggest it. She has the figure for it though, the woman is tall and cat walk slim with blonde (and sometimes green) hair out to here.  She loves to make a statement, lol!

Twelve years since my Mum died too, and for me twelve years here in this home for the perpetually bewildered and impecunious. Time has truly just melted away. It beats the hell out of living under a bridge though! For all its weird neighbours...

Heavy metal - sort of Ramstein type stuff then presumably.

I can cope with some heavy metal - I was at art school with Cam, the vocalist from the  Kiwi metallers, Tainted, but he claimed it wasn't really singing. And having heard a bit of them, I'd have to agree.  
But then, most people wouldn't like some of the stuff I like either - takes all sorts.

Your friend might like the Kiwi band, Alien weaponry. They're just kids but blardy brilliant imo & heavily into using Maori language in their stuff.

I don't keep count of how long since people have died, because I saw Mum do that & have a thoroughly miserable day or so on the anniversary. So I opted to remember them on their birthdays instead & wish them a happy birthday for that lifetime, wherever they might be.