It seems a bit strange to be putting up fic that was 1) jossed very effictively by the real book and 2) as a result completely unfinishable - but I ran across a little cache of fanfic files and decided that it would be a good thing to archive things like this on LJ, just in case I have another Ghastly Accident with my computer, like the time I  ( Read more... )

Just found this on the Grauniad website - a little blast from my past.

Old covers from Puffin Club magazines. Some of which are really rather surreal. Most of them, really. No prizes for guessing which decade I grew up in!

Not much inspired to say at the moment, but I just felt I had to post and share the pretty.

I had a lovely surprise a few days ago. Rooting through a box for something quite different, I discovered a Dangermouse DVD I'd bought before I went away last summer and then forgotten all about.

I loved Dangermouse as a kid - which isn't necessarily the best advertisment as I liked all sorts of dodgy things too - but I'd quite forgotten how clever ( Read more... )

I had several intelligent, witty subjects of conversation. However, due to appalling timekeeping, they will all have to wait for another day. Including a long, wistful description of various Spring Festival dinners I have known in far-off China (ignoring the fact that actually it was usually freezing cold and raining, and that conversation usually ( Read more... )

1. Following a recent remark by a_t_rain , I had another idea for a fic last night. One that features Grawp, Colin Creevey and Luna. Would anyone read such a thing? Or would I have to add Cho Chang and Hagrid in order to make it completely unpublishable?

2. This morning as I opened my window, a bottle-green car drove past, its roof covered in pink blossom ( Read more... )