Seems 'vague toe pain and what to do about it' is a topic that excites the minds hereabouts ( Read more... )

2008 is, as I noted earlier, the year I turn ten in fandom. I just noticed that 2007 also was the year of an important anniversary for me. Sometime in the latter part of that year I should have celebrated the 20th anniversary of my first acquaintance with another great love of my life: 1987 was the year I began to learn English. Heh ( Read more... )

Watching the first episode of The Lakes, series two, and there's this scene with German tourists - naked German tourists, as it happens *g* - happily babbling away at Danny (John Simm's character) - and it felt so strange to suddenly hear German amidst all the English. I think it took me a moment - fraction of a second - to notice that there was a ( Read more... )

(Sorry, it's a "post many short entries day" in Hmpf country ( Read more... )