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Following last year's incident when Tabitha brought me the half-eaten remains of a meat sandwich, evidently an attempt to reciprocate for all the food I give her, we have another advance. Not a cheese sandwich, as I suggested to her then, but definitely vegetarian. As far as I could tell - it had been gnawed quite a lot round the edges - it was ( Read more... )

From altariel, and others:

The book I am reading: Well, I'm not really reading books at the moment, because we're going to press, but the one I was halfway through when I ran out of time to read and which I hope to resume in about a week is E. W. Hornung's A Thief in the Night, ie one of the collections of Raffles short stories.
The book I am writing: ( Read more... )

Further to Mitch Benn's video on why he's proud of the BBC, communicator has nobly typed out a list which we can mark up for sociological purposes.

I have crossed out shows or people I have no memory of watching or hearing, underlined ones where I've a vague feeling I did catch the odd glimpse somewhere but can't absolutely swear to it, and bolded items I ( Read more... )

Oh, if you insist... though it's getting a bit boring posting photos of myself and New Hair.

Post one of yourself if you feel like it.

( Yet another self-portrait behind cut )

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From many friends, most recentlylinda_joyce

Your mission, should you choose to accept it
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.

( Oh dear )

In the end, having spent so long clicking through the alternative pictures trying to work out what they represented, I couldn't resist sharing this. As you will probably know by now, the program picks images to illustrate several words from each entry - in my case, running back from August 8 to June 2. I think I worked out well over half of them ( Read more... )

For some reason, after trying a couple of other pieces in Wordle, the obvious thing to do seemed to be to create word clouds of all sixteen of my reviews of Life on Mars...

( Sixteen reviews, mostly in technicolour )