Having maintained radio silence since April, here follows an absolutely enormous post. Things ought to be different next year, touch wood...

[That was the year that was [cut for being bloody enormous]]1.What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

The end of the year is nearly upon us, and I have managed to find a few slivers of time today, in between bits of my 'the flat shall be (mostly) clean and tidy for the new year' frenzy to draft answers for 2015 to the 39 questions in the year meme.

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Turns out I wasn't wrong about my next update possibly being quite a while after Whitby ( Read more... )

It's a good while since I've posted, and it's recently struck me that it might make sense to do it in bits rather than have one absolutely huge post with everything I've been up to in the last few weeks ( Read more... )

Following on from piqueen 's and anadel1976 's posts on this subject...

I'm most interested in these things:

Music: OK, the goth thing is pretty obvious with a username like mine - my music collection runs from Abney Park to Zero Le Creche - but I also like quite a bit of less obvious pop, folk, indie,  rap, metal and dance. I haven't managed to do a lot of it this ( Read more... )

This ( very brief) story in Saturday's Guardian made me laugh. Since I have a few linguistically minded types on my f-list, I thought it might amuse others, too...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/nov/01/5

After some uncertainty in the last week as to whether it was going to run at all (I'm told they need 8 people for it to be worth it running), my Arabic evening class started last night. A lot of what we covered was stuff the teacher had already showed me in the 'taster class' this summer, but it was still an interesting lesson for a couple of ( Read more... )