Christmas cold in full swing but I'm currently treating it with Edinburgh Gin's Christmas Gin and that's helping my mood if not the actual cold. At least Today and tomorrow I have to do almost nothing so reading my way through Yuletide is tomorrow's plan ( Read more... )

Life is stupidly busy as ever but some of the tidying and organising I did over Christmas seems to be sticking and I think maybe it will help? I feel completely exhausted but marginally less stressed... though if I'd been typing this last night that wouldn't have quite been true so it's very much a work in progress ( Read more... )

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This afternoon I've actually ticked some things off my longterm to-do list which was a good feeling ( Read more... )

Well I wasn't going to but then that felt too weird so this is a placeholder for my letter...Dear Yuletide Author ( Read more... )

I'm off work for 4 days and it's meant to be a combination of spring cleaning (new year cleaning?) sorting through some financial stuff and then ALL the exhibitions. In practice exhibition going will happen on Thursday & Friday because today and tomorrow I had to be at things in the early evening that would have meant rush hour travel ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone :-)

Full look back at my year in books to come but December was a pretty good month for reading even if some of the books were really quite short *g*

• League of Dragons - Naomi Novik
  
• Drowned Worlds - Jonathan Strahan (ed)
  
• The Circle - Dave Eggers
  
• Little Book of Advent - Canon Arthur Howells
  
• The Secret Christmas: An Anthology ( Read more... )

So we're nearly at the end of 2016 which is obviously an arbitrary marker in an indifferent universe BUT...

( Cut for sadness )

Dear Yuletide Author... I'm so sorry my letter wasn't done before assignments went out but who was expecting that to happen so fast! I hope my brief suggestions got you excited but here are a few other thoughts in case they help...

( What I want for Yuletide (please) )

I started doing one of those year in review things and then realised I was just depressing myself so here are some lovely things I have found so far in 2016.

(aka that question about what has kept me sane in 2015? fandom, theatre and you lot <3)

• This amazing multifandom video by Llin
  
  

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  Touch the Sky
  
  
• Basically everything Star Wars on tumblr ( Read more... )