The 2014 collection is open! I haven't read all the stories yet...

But I have read my gift, Fiat Justicia by opalmatrix. It's all about Aunt Honoria, a minor character in The Silver Branch who I personally consider to be more interesting than the protagonists, and she really lives up to that billing in this story, being both awesome and ruthless ( Read more... )

Is a very fine name, but personally I think the name Thorolf Mostbeard may be the finest of all Viking names.  I hope he really did have Mostbeard, and it wasn't one of those Little John style names, making fun of his weedy and inadequate chinfungus. 

I've just discovered that a photo I took of my dessert is being used in a way that I had never anticipated ( Read more... )

I just got a payment through on my credit card that was converted for Islandic Krona. The amount I paid was £4.33. Looking at the payee, it's a business in Sandigerdi, which is a small Icelandic town we visited for a few hours in September ( Read more... )

( some drawings of things I didn't quite see out of the corner of my eye. )

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( Again, I go on a bit. And there are some photos, including a whale! )

( We went to Iceland. I wrote about it. I went on a bit, actually, so it's behind a cut. )