Today I heard my first Christmas carol of the season, quite fittingly "Do You Hear What I Hear". It was in a shopping centre, but I have to say I was kind of relieved that it wasn't All Carols, All The Time on their sound system. They've had the decorations up for about a fortnight now.

Speaking of, I purchased the latest The Spirit of Christmas ( Read more... )

Since I have the house to myself (the extended family have gone into the city to drink coffee until the start of the football match the extended family is in town to see), I'm starting my Downton Abbey marathon now, so I can get as far through the series as possible in one night before they get back. And I just realised, with my copy of North & ( Read more... )

I'm over at TVTropes, looking at the page for tropes in The King's Speech.* I was Much Amused by this sub-section under "Deliberate Values Dissonance":( cut for vague spoilers about the nationality of characters )

We're watching Criminal Minds 6.02, JJ, and I started out all "Mini!Jack, what have you been doing?!" before I realised, hey, it's actually a Giradi (and boyfriends) family reunion. Now getting very upset that Michael Welch and Joe Mantegna don't seem to be sharing any scenes, poo. Okay, now get all three of them in the same room. With more in- ( Read more... )

Andrew Cartmell (on Daleks): I certainly think that the colours we chose were much better, 'cause red and blue, they're a bit too festive, aren't they? I just think it's a bit too light and festive. Yeah, so I preferred the colour scheme that we went for in this.


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I was just watching this Eleven&Amy vid and had the sudden thought ( Spoilers for Doctor Who 5x11 The Lodger )

I have the house to myself this weekend (plus cat, who says hi and wants to know why this screen is more interesting than him), and decided that I'd sit down with my knitting, my knee rug (the one coppersinger made me), and Pride and Prejudice on DVD (anyone who has to ask "which one" gets defriended. There can be only one adaptation!). Before watching, I ( Read more... )

We've had painters here all week, and neither Mama Smurf nor myself can breathe at home. So today we escaped to Knox Shopping Centre, and spent the morning wandering and the afternoon watching Valentine's Day.

As two women who love Love, Actually, Valentine's Day was quite good for what it was. I gotta say it was worth the price of admission to ( Read more... )

While we were back in the Old Home Town (I just typed in "Melbourne". Uh, no, sweetie, that's the area in which you are currently sitting/living) I finally picked up a case for my harddrive for Gollum, the computer who died in 2005, in order to rescue the information off it. We were making various estimates on the size of the harddrive, the ( Read more... )

I'm currently rereading Watchmen following the film's release on DVD here in Australia. I'm using a magnetic bookmark I was given a couple of Christmases ago.


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