So it's NYE. I've been working all week, I'm working tomorrow, it's all one and the same to me tbh. But it's a good time to draw a proverbial line under the year gone by and look forward to (hopefully) a brighter year to come. It's not going to be easy, particularly considering where we are in the UK with covid cases rising rapidly again, but ( Read more... )

So my Christmas was pretty low key, but I think it would have been covid or no. I'm at that age where it's no longer something to get crazy-excited about, and with no young kids in the family, we just have what is basically a higher-grade Sunday lunch get-together. Only downside was that my twin sister, who lives in London, was unable to join us ( Read more... )

Saw "Harry Potter" the other day. ( Hardly spoilerish, but just in case... )

I hope my fellow Discworld friends have been keeping abreast of the goings-on Down Under at the Australian Discworld Con (otherwise known as "Nullus Anxietas 3") which happened last weekend. The committee did an amazing job and it sounds like Sir Terry enjoyed his time there, too (in fact, he's still there doing schtuff as we speak - busy, busy ( Read more... )

Walsie at Cape Tribulation in Queensland, Australia. :D Heheh. One of my silly pictures from my journeys in the land of Oz.

( Walsie at Cape Trib )

You know what? I'm going to (another) dog show on Saturday which is at a place called Halefield Lodge, near Oundle. And I've only recently discovered that it's very near the village of Fotherghay. Fotheringhay! Do you know why that's so exciting? Not so much because Richard III was born there and it is a village of significance to the olde Yorkist ( Read more... )

Gah! I'm having such trouble finding a nice top for the theatre in NY. I've decided it's gotta be red and it's gotta be nice and, for some reason, the shops are deciding that purple is "in" this season and all their red tops are either too cheap and casual, or far too revealing and meant for clubbing. Purple is the colour of royalty so maybe I ( Read more... )

Oh fuck, being back at uni is not fun! All these assignments being thrown at us already! One's due in four weeks and it sounds AWFUL! Argh! It also took me three hours to travel there, and then three hours again to get home, because I have no car at present and public transport sucks... (Melburnians have no idea how good their public transport ( Read more... )

I think I left my muse somewhere in Australia... I keep sitting down to write my Walsibeth story, which plagued my mind for most of the time I was Down Under, but no, I just don't have any inclination to write it! I sit and stare at the screen and end up watching Spicks and Specks, or something Geoffreyish, for the umpteenth time instead. Therefore ( Read more... )

Well... this is it... the end of my trip. :( Today at 17.35, I start to fly home to the UK via Bangkok. *sobs* 23 hours of travel followed by more travel on the London Underground, then a train journey to Newark, then hopefully my dad will come and pick me up from Newark train station ( Read more... )