07 April 2015 Radio Ravenclaw

You’re listening to WWRVN, Radio Ravenclaw.

 

Martin Freeman is TEAM SURPRISED CAT SURPRISE! It wasn’t a voting option before, but it is as of right now, and he forgot to tag his turn-ins… anyway. CAT, wheeee!



Thank you for your attention. This has been your daily Break Month Levity with Martin Freeman, I’m Cyprienne.

photo credit: Jay Brooks for Time Out London magazine





Voting has begun for the Mad Scientist Award for the Winter 2015 term. Current Head Girl PickleMommy is awarded the Golden Spectacles of Spectacularity for her work in bringing gram positive and gram negative bacteria to knitted life, and for test knitting the Chocolate Frog Mittens. DrusillaWormwood received another set of Spectacles for her work in creating the Chocolate Frog Mittens, and for inviting *another* pantheon into the Tower to possess Tower residents.

 

The list of nominees for this year’s Award is:

Bacs for single-handedly writing this term’s Convocation

Hypercycloid for her OWL involving blogging her use of antique wheels. And four units of cork guards.

Xamonster for her narwhal tiara

ec0g33k for creating a… well, I’m really not sure what. But it is fabulously mad. Just go look, okay?

kbowman123 for crocheting an entire garden full of sea creatures. In one day.

Brooklynmomdoc for fabulously insane amounts of yardage used between classes and advanced studies.

Nightgigjo for researching and documenting the traits of the different known breeds of dragons, allowing many ‘Claws to save time on homework turn-ins

Craftyshanna heard that a particular tree fluff was “impossible to spin”. Her answer? “Challenge Accepted!” She proved it *could* be spun!

Senkatnovo designed and knit a wonderfully mathy shawl.

Finally, Tower Personal Trainer TindraTieren started the ball rolling of getting WWRVN on the air.

 

Thank you to all who nominated, and be sure to cast your vote!

http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/the-tower/3104536/26-50

 

Next up, we have GazeboGal’s with The Fresh Pot of Coffee!

Great news is rolling in from Risasukka, our correspondent in Finland! congratulations on being asked to interview for that program!

Also, don’t miss the Giant Break Month Game of Tag in the Great Hall!

what else do we do in Break Month? That’s right, it’s time to

Prep With Foxy!!
This week and through the weekend, our tasks are



Love your Queue make sure the front page of your queue represents projects you really want to make soon and have the materials for!



Love your Stash make sure your physical stash is where you want it and stored in the way that you’ll use it best. Then make sure your Ravelry queue is the way you want. For us at the station, we sort our stash by “WIPs”, “Queue’d Project Yarn”, “Unplanned Sock Yarn” and “Other Unplanned Yarn”. In the “other” bin we do have two sub-category bags: “yarn which would make good mittens” and “special yarn”. I’d like to thank my Stashdown Accountability Partners over the ages for the fact that my stash now mostly fits in four bins!



Please reply in the Common Room or phone in to the station to tell us your tips and tricks for taming your stash!

Saint Mungo’s has announced the construction of a new hospital wing. Major sponsors include the Dunfries family of Mid-Lothian and the EverBlue Medical Products Corporation. Saint Mungo’s representative Bartholomea Scintillia denies that the generous donation from EverBlue has any relevance to the multi-patient lawsuit going on right now inthe Wizengamot regarding the gentle blue tinge of several consumers of SkeleGro.

The Fresh Pot of Coffee is brought to you on Tuesdays by Geckito’s Garden Exotic Seeds: Are you tired of having a boring vegetable garden? Need to have the most interesting front yard on the block? Try Geckito’s Garden Exotic Seeds! New this year: Super Spaghetti Seeds!” As we say here at the station when contemplating the bounty of a Geckito Garden