As so often happens I'm using these days between Christmas & New Year to look backa t the last year and think about the next year and also realise that I am very nearly 3 months behind on my "books I've read" posts. So before we reach the end of December here are October & Novembers books ( Read more... )

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In my (slow) walk to Mordor I've reached the point where Sam & Frodo are descending the cliffs in Emyn Muil and the rope unties itself. It's nice when I reach memorable bits ( Read more... )

Today has been another tidying and sorting day. I've spent large swathes of it getting distracted (I found a folder of fanfiction I'd written out by hands at various points... some of which actually ended up online but a lot didn't *g ( Read more... )

Apparently it really is December and time won't even pause briefly to get my breath /o\ but if it's a new month then it's time to look back at last month's reading and it was a good bunch of books. I mean Who Fears Death & The Water Knife have left me somewhat traumatised and worried but the poetry I was reading was the perfect match of the mood ( Read more... )

I've had a half written post open since Sunday evening /o\ I will finish it eventually.

All day I've been stumbling over words or forgetting them altogether which is a sign, usually, that I'm getting stressed. I don't feel stressed precisely but I have been feeling a little like my brain is full. I might have a go and some free text writing and ( Read more... )

Today's XKCD is alarmingly true (and amusingly I first saw it when one of the Abbey clergy put it on facebook, he's meant to be on holiday but apparently it struck a chord ( Read more... )

SO TIRED. Today was a day of heavy lifting and fighting with ridiculous crates and cases again and I need another weekend please :-P Also apparently it's June which I was very much not ready for but it seems it's going to happen anyway so perhaps I should just accept it ( Read more... )

So much for staying more up to date with LiveJournal & reviews this year ( Read more... )

I anyone else obsessively watching for news of the Rosetta mission? Philae is on its way down (land safely little robot!)

I currently have open the Philae2014 and ESA_Rosetta twitter accounts, BBC's live update page and of course today's XKCD which is updating regularly mostly with harpoon related comments *g*

On Sunday seiyaharris and I went to West End ( Read more... )

Apparently it's October. I don't know who allowed that to happen! I haven't read that much in the last month or rather I HAVE but I've gone back to reading a fair bit of fanfiction *coughs* plus The Lunar Men was the sort of book you don't rush, especially as I enjoyed it a lot. Also I'm in the middle of a book of Christopher Smart's poetry and a ( Read more... )