I need a life, apparently.


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1. Do you like blue cheese?

YESyesyesyes.  ALL the blue cheese  I can't decide if I regret introducing Pp to the wonders of blue cheese.  On the one hand, if he buys blue cheese I can eat it :-)  However, if I buy blue cheese, he might eat it. >:-(
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I can only assume that all the people voting for Brienne and Jaime to win in a battle against Sabriel and Mogget, have only read A Song of Ice and Fire, but not the Abhorsen series, and don't really understand what they are up against.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/476984.htmlSabriel is way more ( Read more... )

I suppose I really have to have a facebook account - people expect it in my line of business, and it's kind of useful for volunteering, and yes, OK it's nice to see the occasional update or share a little with those random souls that I don't have any other contact details for, but none the less have a vague feeing of warmth towards. And it's ( Read more... )

Today I have seen so many shares of photographs of Nelson Mandela with inspirational captions ( Read more... )

I'm so sorry 2013. I'm afraid I still hate informational web video ( Read more... )

I would thank huinare for the link to this, but I'm not sure if 'thank' is the right word. :-D

It's a  bizarrely contorted 1966 'movie' of The Hobbit.

Probably many of you have seen it, but I hadn't!   I kind of like it.  Kind of.  The graphics are quite nice, if not particularly Hobbity. But the plot is kind of appalling! :-D

In googling for something quite other, I found an old discussion of Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset (a book of which I am unreasonably fond), in which the commenters lay into the author for having written on a topic they found distasteful.  Incest.   Yes, they felt that including incest in an Arthurian story was something that rendered the whole book ( Read more... )