( The Perils of the North )

We are having an excellent time ( Read more... )

There was this theory that our London hostel had net access in the rooms. Yes, ( if you pay ₤1/hour )

We are in London. Still tiring easily (I started dropping off every time I sat down at Tate Britain yesterday), and stiff (probably due now to the 65 steps to street level - or 91 to breakfast and wifi access - rather than to hauling suitcases which only weigh about 15 kg/35 lbs, after all). However, we are emphatically having a good time.

So far, ( Read more... )

I had a doozy of a (travel) anxiety dream last night. Many of my anxiety dreams follow the worn path of travel: usually I'm about to get on a boat, and struggling to get onto it (and sometimes to pack to get onto it) an irrational amount of baggage, starting with (for example) an enormous double bed. Not this time. Oh no. The Sandman has modernised ( Read more... )

Is me. Yay. My merry_smutmas fic had its final (pre-beta) edit late last night, and this morning I sent it to my beta readers.

( And on the mere the wailing died away )

And now I've found my computer glasses, I can say so!

After a 14.5 hr flight on top on a long last day in San Francisco, I flew into Sydney 6 am last Monday. Then I caught the bus to Canberra 9:30 am, arrived 12:30 pm, to be collected by my brother and taken to a very enjoyable welcome home lunch at one of our favourite Civic restaurants. Late ( Read more... )

Before I left on this trip, I bought a 2 GB SD card to use in the camera (and replaced that one in The Hague, after the first camera went missing in Copenhagen ( Read more... )

About time I had a bitch about something, huh?

( Not much to complain of, really, and lots of good stuff )

Toronto is a great place to visit. When I consider that I just visited a few places downtown, and how much more there is... Just a couple of honourable mentions:

• I'm in love with the Royal Ontario Museum. It's so large and its collections so wide-ranging that even although many of its collection areas are still closed (it's just reopened after ( Read more... )