I had a rather odd, well more surprising than odd, experience the other day. I went to see a play a friend recommended, and later, discussing it, I talked about how the rape scene was so painful to watch, I closed my eyes. My friend went: "Rape? No, it was just rough sex." And I know that people interpret narrative differently and I know that in ( Read more... )

 After doing some fencing in the garden, while counting up injuries:

Me: "A cut on my leg, and I'm pretty sure the base of my thumb is swelling."
Husband, just returned from toilet: "you cut me in an intimate area!"
Me: "I win then?"

Later on, discussing next weekend:
Me: "I wanna see the new Iron man!"
Husband: "I haven't seen any of them."
Me, ( Read more... )

Comedy by Marie Phillips and Robert Hudson. Napoleon and Wellington's horses exchange love letters against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6dcx

 So recently, I sent off an application for an Assistant Librarian position at the University of Oxford. The closing day is tomorrow. So let's see if I'll hear anything besides a refusal. Frankly, though, I am not going to mind a refusal all that much, since I have bit the bullet and filled in an application for the Blue Badge Guide course (it's in ( Read more... )

 Yesterday I went to Oxford for lunch and somehow now possess a Waterloo Chess Set. :D

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The addition to our family:

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 Today, for the first time in seven years I drove a car for almost four hours (with two substantial breaks). This was occasioned  by the fact that I now actually have a car, which we picked up this morning from the dealer's. I was rather terrified throughout, but I am booked for a couple of sessions with an instructor this week (and more the week ( Read more... )

 I was just watching the s07e12 of the BBC Pointless tv show (don't ask). For those who don't know it, in this show the object is to score the least number of points by giving a correct and hopefully obscure answer. The first category was English football team captains and the clubs they played for and the players did pretty well on them, girls too ( Read more... )

 Tonight we are off to the Battle Prom Concert at Blenheim Palace, but for now I am blissfully alone, having packed off mom and husband to go on a trip to Warwick Castle. I can hear myself think suddenly! :D

I now have a bike. Mothers. O_o And I also booked tickets for the Long Day's Journey into the Night with David Suchet and Sunshine Boys with ( Read more... )

 Today I went to London to submit my husband's documents for a Russian visa. I thought I'd avoid bureaucratic brain rape, but while it was a mild case (a sort of intercrural brain rape), I didn't and ended up spending almost two hours at the visa centre. But! It ended up being a Good Thing, since a girl asked me a question about a spousal visa ( Read more... )