Over six hours of bagpacking we managed to raise just under £1200 for the cause! Wow! It was a great day and generally, people were very generous. Many invisible thanks to all of them, and may karma reward them most lovingly!

It was pretty much the entire local Japanese community doing it-- my mum has this network of Japan Mums that all get together ( Read more... )

Someone linked this to me for the lulz... Timeless, etc... but I think it's kind of beautiful. Really!

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Warning: a lot of swearing in the below video. Loud swearing. Eta: very very obscene, intensely Scottish swearing. Just to up the warning a little upon second viewing.

It's two Scottish blokes' take on the famous "You're a wizard, Harry" scene. My boyfriend sent me the link. I laughed almost until I died.

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Horrible Histories won Best Sketch Show at the British Comedy Awards!

HNNNNG SO HAPPY! :D :D :D

They were up against Armstrong and Miller and Harry and Paul so this really is a case of underdogs FTW.

Just gonna have a quick dance of joy and then off to bed!

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BRB SINGING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW EVER

Most of you probably know that I am a total London nerd. In my writing, whenever London is involved, it's one of the few things I write with as much accuracy as possible (and man, some of the time-travel discrepancies I have in Timeless is... well, it hardly bears thinking about!). Today I was so glad to go to London, and more than that, all by ( Read more... )

So much mascara on I can scarcely move my eyes...

ONWARDS!

Hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Eve, however you're celebrating it!

Well, I had one Christmas present and I don't know where my parents got the money for it but it's a new laptop. I know. I feel bad but they said that they wanted me to have a new one mainly because my old one was crapping out but also because they know how much I write and love to write. And coursework, etc. My sisters and brother each got me ( Read more... )

Here is the news vis-a-vis my very first university offer:

UNCONDITIONAL OFFER!

Not for my top choice, true, but Brunel University looks pretty awesome and it means that hey, at least I've got in somewhere! What am I even talking about? What I really mant to say was:

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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The lovely questionmark from the NaNo official site made me a wonderful front cover!


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