Yesterday I went on a generally successful but slightly fail-tinged excursion to Oxford Street. I achieved boring but servicable shoes and Hellboy 2 on DVD without too much trouble. And then I went off to look for the Waterstones on Gower Street and realised about an hour's bewildered trudging later, when I was coming back towards Tottenham Court ( Read more... )

Hmm. Need to get my eyes tested, and get new glasses, and sunglasses. Should I go to the probably-ridiculously-priced opticians which is a 90second walk away from work, next door to the ridiculously-priced hairdressers where I get my hair cut? It is incredibly convenient, I can get tested tomorrow and pick up the frames whenever they're ready, and ( Read more... )

Heeeeeee.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D trailer!It looks, well, it looks like not great art but fun in a fairly Mummyish kind of way, but... there is SINGING ON THE TRAILER. Me, that is me, doing that singing, just after the falling and the big reveal there is singing and it's me. Us. Me. *flail ( Read more... )

It is May. I like May. I think May quite likes me. It's hot, but not stiflingly hot. It just feels... good. It is that partly-in-the-bones and partly-in-the-mind feeling of rightness, quite similar to looking at or being on the sea ( Read more... )

I have another cousin, hooray! Scorer-Olson Sprog Number Three was born yesterday, or possibly the day before actually, and is a girl but doesn't have a name yet. (Her siblings' names are Bethany and Otto. I await with understandably slightly baited breath to find out whether she will be named something similarly interesting. This is concievably ( Read more... )

Oh, Gneil, you always provide us with the best in random linky joy.

http://www.nfctd.com/home.html
It's an interactive Flash thingy with all victorian nature/anatomical drawings and twirly black stuff and it's beautiful...
Here is the explanation of who, what and why, although as ( Read more... )

Mercilessly (how many Ls?) poached from trollprincessGeorge Takai being A RIGHTEOUS DUDE ( Read more... )