What I read
Continued with the Antonia Fraser Jemima Shore mysteries, which are quite readable even if Jemima is no great shakes as an investigator (she is no Miss Marple for sure; nor are the books doing the 'I'm playing about with the genre here, for la, 'tis only a mystery story' that Amanda Cross does): A Splash of Red (1981); Cool Repentance ( ( Read more... )

Not for the first time: I see it is only somewhat over a year ago that I posted about the staff at the New York City Tenement Museum unionising -
- and I noted today that they have not ceased from, what is not so much doing Ye Quainte Lyvynge Hystorye but carrying forward the struggle because it's not over, comrades:
Twitter thread from the ( Read more... )

The Houndz ov Spring are lying in the shade, tongues out, panting.

The Ponceyness Police are sitting at a table outside a coffee shop, arguing about whether it is poncey to order an iced mochachino instead of a simple iced coffee.

Alicia Beatitude suggests some delicious non-baked cakes so you don't have to turn on the oven. Try her delicious ( Read more... )

I cannot help noticing that there is a DW/LJ friending meme blossoming and dancing at the moment, and while this is a good thing (though these things always seem to me to be bit fandom-focused, so not quite my sort of thing, dearie) -

What I should really like to see is the people already on my rlist posting more -

(No pressure!) -

But I'd like ( Read more... )

Having one of those days when I don't feel anything inspiring or sparking off a post, but still feel I should post something, because I am in the habit of posting something every day.

So I'm going with being meta about doing things as a habit.

Which I think can be a rather good thing, because it gets me into the momentum of doing something rather ( Read more... )

(Okay, I do actually know why. Firstly, I was asked by the organiser, who is someone I really like and get on with, and secondly, the conference is in a really cool place, you can get me to any conference if you are holding it in some Cool Spot I have never visited, because that's the way I roll. And sometimes even spots which are not particularly ( Read more... )

One of the things about the current LJ vs DW thing that has me making like a goldfish is that, you know, these (we, indeed) people at Dreamwidth are the same people we used to be (and in many cases still are) on LJ.

I don't think I've suddenly started not being the It's-All-More-Complicated Hedgehog you know (and love??? - makes pathetic little ( Read more... )

Alert from the Federal Bureau of InvestigationHello Sir/Madam ( Read more... )

Is my tuppence-worth really necessary? (sometimes it is, and sometimes it is an empty me-too)

My tuppence-worth is almost certainly not worth sixpence just because it's me saying it.

Is this going to hijack debate in a entirely different direction?

There is a difference between shedding light and adding fuel to the flames.

Do apologise, don't ( Read more... )

End of a Kafkaesque nightmare: writer's papers finally come to light

Okay, we will overlook the fact that these papers were known about - the person who had custody just obviously got great delight over teasing people about them before dying aged 101 - so 'coming to light' is not exactly the expression I would use.

And we will also overlook what is ( Read more... )