Well, I don't get to use this icon much. And although I didn't win hands down, I think I won enough this evening to justify it.

( A few speculative and potentially spoilerish notes ahead of The Final Problem )

The news I've been waiting for since DVDs were invented! Shoulder to Shoulder is coming out on DVD in March next year!

Now I just have to wait for someone who isn't Amazon to advertise it...

Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
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Still behind on everything - in case anyone's wondering why I'm ignoring them, I've about four weeks' backlog of LJ and DW which I do hope to catch up with soon...

But quickly, to complete Sunday's report, here are a few pics of Lancashire's victory over Nottinghamshire in their opening Championship match of 2016. As Lancashire needed only 86 to ( Read more... )

I hop you're having as glorious a day as we've had here! A decisive majority for equal marriage in Ireland, with all the accompanying scenes of rejoicing - and, finally, Oscar Romero has been beatified! I have waited a very long time for that one ( Read more... )

Raising our glasses for the last time to the peerless Cabin Pressure.


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I had another smear test this week and, as I found my report on the unsuccessful and successful attempts three years ago very useful for planning this time, I'm writing it up again.

( Cut for gynaecological stuff )

And so, back to the annual quiz organised by the Freedom from Torture foundation in Chorlton, aka The Quiz Where They Have The Organic Vegetables. As you may recall from previous years, the object of the exercise is to come second, because the vegetables are the second prize and some bottles of booze are the first.

( So guess how we did this year? )

The delightful surprise of a box of Montezuma chocolate truffles, twice - once when glitterboy1 presented it to me on Saturday morning, and the second time when I found it while unpacking my overnight bag, as I'd forgotten all about it in the meantime. Gosh, they're good. I don't think they'll last very long ( Read more... )

We did it again! Another Manchester redwash, with Labour winning 32 wards out of 32, as in the previous two council elections! Since the Liberal Democrats entered the coalition government in 2010, all their councillors have been knocked out - the last nine fell yesterday, the ones who had come in on the same day as the general election.

( The numbers game - you can't all lose! )