Last night, in search of stuff that was 'like' (for a given value of 'like') Yuri!!! on Ice, I stayed up late reading through Check Please from the beginning.

Rather than explain it in depth, I'll just link to this (spoilery) primer: The Queer Hockey Bros Webcomic You Should Be ReadingI enjoyed it and found it a pleasant way to spend a couple of ( Read more... )

The pound-to-krona exchange rate is absolutely ruinous at the moment. I may have obsessively visited Iceland during the roughly five years when it was actually financially possible for me to do so.

This has not stopped me buying Icelandic books, as I have to read something (logical fallacy ahoy), but I've decided not to go for that Dracula ( Read more... )

Today is More Joy Day and it sounds like it's sorely needed for many of us. Certainly for me ( Read more... )

So I have committed Yuri on Ice fic, which is a gift for
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Work is so hectic at the moment that it feels like I haven't got space to think. The only reason I'm poking my head above the parapet now is that I've had a much-needed three day weekend, and achieved a little decompression. Here's a collection of thoughts all bundled into one post ( Read more... )

So my theory was that you can totally be a fan of pro cycling without ever getting on a bike. This was reassuring to me, because the last time I got on a bike was as an undergraduate, when I borrowed a friend's bike and wobbled up and down Turl Street on it while he was getting money from the cash machine. He took it back from me in some haste, ( Read more... )

So the Paralympics are about to kick off in Rio! Quite a bit in the news this time around, from the financial crisis (the Paralympics possibly having been robbed to pay for the Olympics) to the unsold seats (not unique to the Paralympics).

In particular I've been paying some attention to the news of attempts to game the classification system and a ( Read more... )

Went into town today to have brunch with
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Thinking of going to Bristol on 10 September to see the Tour of Britain go through. Conveniently it'll be a circuit race that day, so I'll get to watch it go through more than once. The Froomebot (pictured in icon on left) will be in Spain at the Vuelta but it may still be an interesting field ( Read more... )

So I'm always embarrassed about splashing new interests across my journal, when everyone has got used to a non-stop procession of something else entirely. (I ended up making a new Beatles journal for this reason, back in the day.) But I suspect this interest will last about two more weeks, max. And if you can't post about your enthusiasms on your ( Read more... )