For the Valentine's Day haters out there: Some tales of very unfortunate Valentine's Day romantic gestures in restaurants.

Is it just me, or was there a quite remarkable number of blue Christmas cards this year?

If it's not just me, anyone care to let me know why all the Xmas cards went blue this year? Not that I have anything against blue, but it's just not a Christmas colour.

I don' t make a habit of posting just to show a link, but this one cheered me up on a rather grim Monday morning, so I thought I'd share.

A French theatre company has staged a huge street spectacle in central London, including a giant animatronic elephant lumbering slowly down some really famous street in London and holding up all the traffic. A  ( Read more... )

A lot of my F-list are putting up charming notices offering Christmas cards to LJ friends. So many are doing it that I feel an announcement is called for, both to explain why I haven't responded and why I'm not doing it myself.

The reason I'm not doing it myself is that I know myself too well. Even though I've become genuinely fond of the nice ( Read more... )