I was reading a post about the illegal demolition of a historic building in Melbourne, The Corkman Hotel and the problem of illegal demolition of historic buildings. The ideas the poster talks about - what buildings mean in a community, that their fabric is not the only valuable thing about them - feel relevant to recent discussions around fandom ( Read more... )

I am inclined to bake, but that would mean going outside into the rainy, blustery day to buy butter, at least, and possibly other ingredients. Moving, and unpacking without a plan, means that it's easy to find the isomalt (used maybe every six months) but not the honey (breakfast ( Read more... )

This morning is hanging around at home for the duration the delivery window of the replacement thing, due to the original thing not being up to snuff. My worry is that when replacement thing gets assembled, not Monday as I was promised but some time not yet determined, it will be as not up to snuff as the first. These things are made by machines, ( Read more... )

For the first time in a hundred thousand years I have changed the title of my DW and deleted an icon. Adam Baldwin, I eschew you. I can't do this to my LJ until I close all the tabs, restart the browser with protective business turned off so I can actually do something on LJ. I can't comment with Ghostery on. I imagine Ghostery works very well ( Read more... )

Just in case you haven't seen it yet, Brighter than the Sun, multi-fandom vid: Sleepy Hollow, Grimm, Lost Girl, Merlin. It's so happy, one of those vids that lift you up and make you smile and basically the vid equivalent of corgi puppies in fallen leaves. (The argument could be made that Arthur is, in fact, a very large corgi puppy, but I digress ( Read more... )

I have 35 knitting projects on the go. Okay, not 35 but still, like 7. That's a lot. Instead of finishing one I start another. It's not that I'm not getting stuff done on all of them, but it could be getting out of hand ( Read more... )