We've just got back from a week's holiday with the in-laws. No injuries, no trips to A&E, no significant breakages, so that's a success. There was some fun stuff too: a random trip to the Tank Museum to escape rain falling sideways turned into a bit of an adventure when it happened that there were Daleks and UNIT troops holding a running battle ( Read more... )

So you know I've been going on a bit about Paul McGann as Nightingale. And then I wrote a Wimsey/RoL crossover. And in the course of doing so, I spent a fair bit of time reading classic poetry about nightingales, because you know Wimsey would go there, and there's an awful lot to choose from because every poet in the world has written something ( Read more... )

Oops, I appear to have developed a bit of a thing for Paul McGann. Didn't mean to do that. But damn is he gorgeous. I mean, seriously gorgeous. Also, he's the author's fancast for Nightingale in Rivers of London, and as you may have noticed I have a thing for Nightingale too, so the combination is kind of devastating ( Read more... )

I happened across some lovely Vorkosiverse art from the Russian fandom. I particularly love the Aral/Cordelia one, and Bel with the hamster ( Read more... )

There's a bunch of wonderful Vorkosigan fanart up on Jetta-e's blog. For those who can't read Russian, the pictures in this set are ( Read more... )

( seven mini-reviews and a picture )

There's a new cover for Barrayar! And one which shows an actual recognisable picture of something that happened in the books! I can't seem to link directly to it, but it's the top left of the thumbnails on the artist's site. Cordelia and her shopping bag! Drou and a uterine replicator! Bothari! The Imperial Residence burning down! I think the ( Read more... )

So, as I think I've said before, I'm not a very visual person and I don't generally have strong mental images of characters I read or write about. Lois has said her visual for Aral is Oliver Reed, and I've seen some moderately plausible pictures, but it's never really clicked for me. But now I have watched the 1973/4 films of The Three Musketeers, ( Read more... )