Thank you all again for the congratulations you left on my last post(s). I say this so often, but I never stop being surprised at the warmth and kindness of you all ( Read more... )

I got my yuletide assignment. As is the way of these things, I had a brilliant idea on seeing it, wrote three hundred words and then nothing more. I'm still cautiously optimistic I might make progress soonish. I think I shall have to rewatch re-read replay re-consume the canon and hope for the best ( Read more... )

Our landlord wants to know what we're doing on Shetland. "Oh," I said, taken by surprise, "oh, we're here to look at the wildlife, I suppose."

"Good place for it," he said, and not a lot else; he is, on the whole, a chap of few words. The truthful answer is that I have no idea; for some reason, when shimgray suggested it two weeks ago, instead of going to ( Read more... )

I am feeling rather stay-in-bed gloomy and sad. One of those things, I s'pose. I plan to go to Taruithorn's dancing tonight, so perhaps that will be cheering.

Anyway, quick hit: anyone want a copy of Lord John and the Hand of Devils? I've talked about Lord John before, and how wonderful he is: basically, these are the adventures of an eighteenth- ( Read more... )

I am sitting in bed with a pile of books and a cup of coffee, and it is an absolutely freezing Sunday afternoon and I have no desire to get out of it again. Clearly, the time has come to talk about the eighty-three novels I read in 2009. Like I said before, this was my New Year's resolution - to read, and in doing so, maybe re-establish the habit ( Read more... )