My mood has taken a tumble recently and with it all my motivation which is proving challenging both at work and at home. At work in a way it's not so bad because there aren't enough hours to do everything anyway so I don't need self-motivation (though it's entirely possible that's what has killed my mood and ability to do anything because at times ( Read more... )

Hmmm I hoped to post my review of last year's theatre tonight so it was before my first theatre of 2017 (Saint Joan tomorrow <3) but life (tiredness and one last opportunity to light all the candles and Christmas lights and read some GK Chesterton) intervened ( Read more... )

Today Mum and I had a gentle, and very late, look at the Marks & Spencer's sale and I got a couple of jumpers, some new bras and new pyjama bottoms which, unlike every pair of trousers I looked at, HAVE POCKETS! Why do my pyjamas have pockets when no trousers or skirts do? *sighs ( Read more... )

This weekend has been FULL. Full of good things and bad things and actually quite a lot of me getting stuff done so WHY when faced with a blank LJ page do I freeze ( Read more... )

Earlier this evening Mum and I finally watch The Song of Lunch (that dramatised poem with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson) and absolutely loved it. The poem was pretty entrancing on its own and then Alan Rickman's voice reading it? Perfect.

And now we are watching CSI which is not QUITE the same *g*

( CSI 11-03 Blood Moon )

My new boots because nmalfoy asked:


( Read more... )

Things I should be posting about: Matilda, Harry Potter, Birdsong, Yuletide panic/glee, Winter Wassail at the Globe... Priscilla (I will do that eventually SORRY ( Read more... )

I was going to maybe post about Rev (which I'm really enjoying) only I thought "I'll just check twitter" and came across a CSI NY casting thing that's just left me sitting here all full of woe and sadness ( Read more... )

This weekend go away from me completely. In fact the whole of last week seemed to race by at a hundred miles an hour whilst everything I needed o do took twice as long as normal leaving me feeling more than a little out of control. And as if I've failed to get anything done ( Read more... )

Today I got to photograph lots of bits of shaving equipment and also an (empty) sack of Farleys Rusks... to be fair we also had a box of gorgeous Victorian samplers one of which was nearly 3 metres long (a little girl had done lots of buts over two years and sewn them all together ( Read more... )