Haberdashery Fatigue is a syndrome which afflicts sewing book authors when they have spent all afternoon writing about zips, piping and bias binding, and only have buttonholes too look forward to for the rest of the day and evening.

And can anyone shed light on why this picture is my most viewed image on Flickr? I know it’s a weird (and grubby) ergonomic keyboard, but it has no tags and is in no groups. Why is it so popular?

The same thing happened last year with a very dull picture of tomato plants. What is it all about?

Anyway, back to zips.