I want to update but really, I've nothing very interesting to say. Or, I have a lot to talk about, but these things are emotionally costly and I just can't be bothered to do them justice in a proper entry ( Read more... )

'Hydrarchy - Transitional and transformative seas is the second part of a two-phase project, which started with Hydrarchy - Power and resistance at sea that took place in London at Gasworks and the University of Central London in September 2010. [1]

In the early chapters of Madness and Civilisation, Michel Foucault describes the Narrenschiff, a boat ( Read more... )

So finally since March 2009 when Anna C and I got excited about the idea, we're getting close to Our Sea Project: Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea.


If you are in London on 17th September please come to the opening. If you are nerdy about naval history, radical history, postcolonialism, anarchism/anti-statism, or border politics, please come to ( Read more... )

A PACKAGE ARRIVED FROM ENGLAND

IT HAS JACK, STEPHEN, AND HORATIO IN IT

AND AN ADVENT CALENDAR

MUM HAS NEVER FAILED TO POST ME AN ADVENT CALENDAR TO WHEREVER I AM LIVING SINCE I MOVED OUT IN 1998

LONG LIVE MOTHERS!!!!!

I was flicking through an old notebook and found a couple of pages from A Ship of the Line that had fallen out from a copy of mine. Then I realised that this is the first time I have gone anywhere in the last three years without a Hornblower book on me. I can't believe it. I'm sitting here and the unthinkable has happened: I can't read Hornblower.

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Saturday was wonderful. I can see a day in the not so distant future when Alison, Tommy and I will live our filthy spinster lives half sunk into a velour sofa, eating Value Pack onion rings and drinking gin, and conversation consisting exclusively of the following phrases: "NOoooOO" [phlegmy] "UmHUMHUMHUnmnnnnmm" [cum-like] or "Oh ho! You were wise ( Read more... )

Happy new year etc. But besides that, OH MY GOD.

OH MY GOD.
Booknumber: 024687
FORESTER, C.S. - C. S. Forester's Hornblower One More Time

Tacoma, Non Profit Press, 1976. Limited. Hard Cover. #168 / 350 Limited and Numbered Edition : Five stories, a Ballade, and commentary and checklist. Fine/Fine.
USD 500.00

This is the Hornblower book that they ( Read more... )

Today is 27th December.

And I still have a massive goose and all my presents to open, because we waited for latecomers to get here.

N arrives in approximately 3 1/2 hours.

Hooray for me!

N and Joseph are going to meet each other for the first time. I've never seen N around kids, but I predict that he's probably one of those vague, slightly inhuman ( Read more... )

I had completely surpassed myself with that stew, by the way. It was the most incredibly delicious thing for days after. So today we were having our regular, gloom-filled moth-check of the food cupboards (finding the source of our moth problem has been the most difficult search for a source of anything since finding the source of the Amazon) I ( Read more... )