I've just spent the day helping a friend make wedding decorations. I'm feeling warm and fuzzy and arts and crafty. Actually it was a nice way to spend my Saturday, I ended up having a bit of a stressful week (deadlines - pffft) so came home last night, slumped on the sofa, fired up the magic 'things I've recorded' box and refused to move. One of ( Read more... )

Especially when I'm putting off doing more important things...

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I went to see A Single Man tonight which I really enjoyed, though for some reason I thought it was going to be a lot sadder than it actually was. Having said that though, it was definitely affecting - in fact, I suspect it may cause delayed reaction sadness so I'm currently watching trash TV to cheer myself up! Colin Firth was fantastic (as ever), ( Read more... )

Just a quick sign in to crow over the fact that I so win at eBay:

less than 50p ladies and gents (+p&p) - although, oddly, mine doesn't seem to have Jude Law?
To be honest though, I'm sure I'll get over it...

Bwa haha ha haha!!!

That is all...

17 March. St Patrick's Day. The Irish worshipped the shamrock as the symbol of their triple deities long before (the probably fictitious) Patrick used it as a symbol of the Trinity. At the Roman festival of Mars (Pater, or Patricius), an enormous phallus was paraded through the streets. The wearing of green was traditional at Roman sexual feasts. ( Read more... )

14 February. St Valentine's Day, when birds reputedly start mating. In ancient Rome it was the day of a festival of sexual fever when young men drew womens names from a box to choose their sexual partners. Valentine is a version of the Norse deity Vali, the archer-god, son of Odin. The dedication of the day was transferred to one of two St ( Read more... )