Ever wonder if you're living in a fairy tale world? Afraid that you might not have the chops to work your way free to "happily ever after"? Here's the guide for you!

Seanan McGuire's Fairy Tale Survival Guide. This set of FAQs answers questions you haven't thought to ask to guide you to that little gingerbread cottage you've always wanted. ( Read more... )

I mailed the colouring books off to their destinations yesterday. In a rush, of course, so the cover letters are ... not really adequate.


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(This is a page from a coloring book I've created for a friend.)

This is a pictsie.
Seo luspardan.


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Went into the office with M yesterday - he was feeling extremely fragile, so I drove both ways ( Read more... )

I won't know for another hour, at which time I must go in immediately. So I am up. Awake? Not so much. It is very difficult this morning.

eta - just found out, I am NOT subbing today. I'm going back to bed - assuming I can persuade "She who must be obeyed" (aka, the ShadowCat) to do the same.

I started reading King Solomon's Mines (Read more... )

I found this story in Mac-Talla, vol 11, issue 5, but a version of it was appeared in Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends of Ireland as "The Horned Women" and another in Tales of the West Highlands vol. 2.

The Housewife and the Fairies
an old story

( Long long ago ... )

(... or shut your mouth, son of Adam!)

A quick post because ... well, I bit off more than I could chew again - a story printed in Mac-Talla, the Canadian Gaelic-language newspaper, in 1902. I'm having to figure out the language used and translate it into modern Gaelic and English both ( Read more... )

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Lovely day yesterday - warm and sunny - perfect day for hill-climbing. Some of my friends and I packed a picnic lunch and took off on a ramble, planning to hit places where we'd had good luck aillse watching in years past ( Read more... )

A h-uile latha sona dhut, 's gun latha idir dona dhut.

*/ AMay your every day be happy, and may you have no unhappy days at all. /*