The Sahara has come to Mallorca on a big brown wind, coursing up from the south laden with dust from the desert. All those fabled Mediterranean colours are muted in the haze and the sun's disk is dull silver on a colourless sky. It's beautiful but it's vaguely unearthly.

So my sister and I and the podenco dog went walkies, rising at five in the ( Read more... )

Dear LJ,

I've seen complaints from folks about a new Friends page of yours, mostly on the grounds that it looks like a "tumblr". Anyway, I tried it, and...

... it doesn't even word wrap correctly? Er... what is wrong with you ( Read more... )

Almost one post per day so far in May! And no shortage of things on the List Of Stuff To Write About. Wow ( Read more... )

Five weeks' worth of backdated entries that I found in an old handwritten sailing-journal from 1995. It was a six- or eight-month journey, all told, but I only recorded about five weeks of it. Three weeks' cruising from Cornwall, England to the Algarve, Portugal; then a couple of weeks in St Martin, Caribbean. I eventually jumped ship in the ( Read more... )

[Following grayscalewolf's comment: Nossik appears to deny that his comments represented the opinions of LJ management; which is a bit ripe from a Media Evangelist; but, much more significantly, he says that the story was a digest of a two-hour phone conversation. During which anything might have been said. And after re-reading the more charitable translation ( Read more... )

Holy shit. They're not kidding? No, they're not kidding! Ladies, gentlemen and others; cats dogs and reptiles: the future is Russian! Please show your gratitude with a moment's silence for our erstwhile patrons at Six Apartthank you.

And now to a bright future in the arms of the Russian business network-but do we get to be face up, face down ( Read more... )