Two bright yellow blooms from Robert, a slightly lopsided pink effort from Midge (Midge is a rescue rose and needs a bit of encouragement), and Margaret, and Abaddon off in the corner, have buds well on the way ( Read more... )

I had one of those ridiculous accidents a couple of nights ago, tripping in my bedroom.  Gah.  I hurt my shoulder, and spent a long night in A & E, working my way up the triage queue along with the guy with the stab wound and the guy who kept having seizures on the floor as a result of quitting an extreme alcohol habit cold turkey.  They were ( Read more... )

I actually nominated some fandoms, this time around.  Um, Baldur's Gate, because why not, The Chronicles of Tornor, because I remember them fondly from when I was a teenager, and I can't remember the others right now ( Read more... )

(It's been a while.)

I cleared all the stray green stuff from my rose bed, and did a bit of watering of the plants that had hit shade by that time of day.  (It's been very dry and sunny of late, which means watering the whole lot every evening, which gets to be a drag, so I'm splitting the chore a touch.  Also, I put on a breath mask and stirred ( Read more... )

I went in expecting a violent, silly movie with deliberate anachronisms and cheesy one-liners, with extra gore, and that's exactly what I got ( Read more... )

I did a raid on an op-shop earlier in the week and availed myself of their delivery service to get a couch, a coffee-table with a brass top with winged lions*, and some big-arse curtains stapled to weird hanging things and cords. Once I've finished destapling and washing them, there should be plenty of material for filling in the living-room's ( Read more... )

Went to visit the eye-doctor this morning. She gave me... A STICK.

It's got letters on the ends and I'm supposed to practice keeping both eyes on it as it moves in and out. Carefully.

(Ow.)

It is very ... pink. (Pink is for girls.) It also comes with a hand pump, and a whole new set of Pilates exercises. (Pilates routines have gone from weird-but-easy to moderate-ranging-to... difficult. Fun fun fun.) As to their success, despite a day of probably pre-menstrual down-in-the-dumps-ness, I have not trace of a back ache. Yayy ( Read more... )

I have acquired a disease, possibly from Stephanie, which involves a sore throat and random periods of massive unconsciousness. Am trying to convince the damn cat to go outside where the wind can blow freely through his stubble, instead of sitting on my stomach and shoving his disgusting behind in my face ( Read more... )

See, a twelve-person larp I helped write ran this morning up in Auckland (Steph, the head writer, GMed it ( Read more... )