We're going off to Belgium tomorrow ("Is it a convention?" asked Mrs Next Door. "No, we're having an actual *holiday*!") for a few days in Bruges and then a few more in Ghent. New sitter, so fingers crossed that she does ok ( Read more... )

I'm re-reading the Riverworld books, and occasionally giggling ( Read more... )

GB stomped on my foot the other day, when I didn't have my boots on. At first, I just had a scraped patch of skin, but now I have Interesting Bruising as well:

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This morning, I rode GB, taking it quite gently: both of us seemed to be fine with our bad legs ( Read more... )

Both of the boys have been idiots, today ( Read more... )

I’m re-reading the Heinlein Juveniles, and it’s very interesting which bits make me splutter at the implausibility and which just make me go “ah, old SF ( Read more... )

This morning, I rode Bugs, who was a bit nervous to start off with but calmed down fairly quickly. (This is not the exciting part, by any means ( Read more... )

You know what no one ever uses, or builds, buys, digs or makes in the Little House On The Prairie books? Now that I've realised it, I'm intensely curious ( Read more... )

Having never read them, I developed a hankering to work through Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. Mike used to own them on paper, but they went many years ago. He did manage to find me an eBook of the first volume on gutenberg.ca, but only the first volume: there's presumable some sort of hellish copyright thing going on that someone is ( Read more... )

The worst thing about a new Vlad book? The fact that a re-reading the series afterwards involves Teckla, the best bit of which is the laundry list....

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