Firstly - what the well-dressed toddler about town is wearing next season.

From my 'handbag knitting' recently. (i.e. something to do that fits in my handbag for when I'm not busy!)


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Report in The Guardian to say that Christopher Lee has died, aged 93.


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Anyone else see this picture of David Tennant as Richard 2nd and think it looks as if his style icon is Thranduil'? (Possibly on a bad hair day?)


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Thing The First - almost all my friends in the UK are more or less under snow. All day Friday, and all day today, it has snowed here. And this is all we have to show for it....


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When discussing stormwreath's all penguin AU Silmarillion I mentioned that there was also a butterfly AU for Buffy, (and a fairy Spike, if I remember rightly!). I said I thought fluttery, butterfly, elves might be a bit too much. Then I remembered a picture I took a little over a year ago ( Read more... )

Before the WriterConUK meet in August the committee challenged people to go out and write - and post a link on the WriterConUK journal before November 1st. Then I suggested that people might find inspiration to write in some of the talks at that event - for example on the use of smell, or the use of music, or using prompts of all sorts ( Read more... )

Here is the next chapter of the story I wrote for the Tolkien BigBang, before I archive it at the usual sites. In this chapter our heroine gives someone - or someones - a rather stern talking to ( Read more... )

Hurrah! Long weekend! Although I have a feeling I might have to spend some time making a hundredweight of carrot cake; whenever we do anything at church that involves cake I get guilted into making it - "You will be making carrot cake, won't you? I particularly want some of your carrot cake." You can get bored making carrot cake after a while ( Read more... )

OK - you asked for it!

And lo! Here it is. Tindómë wondered just what Galanthir might do to keep Legolas from melancholy on the night after Aragorn's funeral... and a couple of other people said that they wondered, too...

Taking Comfort.
Rated 15
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Calling those of you interested in the debacle over the LordoftheRingsFanfiction site - well actually for those of you with even a working knowledge of LotR, or Winnie the Pooh, or how fanfic works -

My husband has issued a challenge to Keith Manders to prove that he's not just a rapacious money-grubber trying to loot fandom after the style of ( Read more... )