I have fallen into a mini-spiral of A-Ha Unplugged videos which isn't a thing I ever expected to say but this version of Take On Me is almost unbearably beautiful.

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(It was the funeral today and then I went back to work for the afternoon and consequently I'm in a slightly odd mood ( Read more... )

Thought about going to the fireworks tonight- then thought about the warm house and a chance to sit and do NOTHING for an evening and I'm afraid I decided that even shiny fire based things weren't enough to get me out of the house :-P Unusually my parents came to the same conclusion so we had a yummy supper of jacket potatoes & sausages and then ( Read more... )

We've just been watching a show on BBC4 called Seven Photographs That Changed Fashion and there was a moment when every discussion I've had online about male v. female gaze and slash versus gay fiction and whether it's relevant that this is a mainly female community etc. came flooding into my head ( Read more... )

So I am, in a little bit, off to spend three nights staying with Snow (other Rainbow leader) because her husband is going away for a few days and as she's still in a wheelchair they wanted someone else in the house ( Read more... )