I had an enjoyable afternoon out with the goblin child today. We went to see Zootropolis, which was excellent. At it's core, it's a mismatched buddy cop movie, so not the most original idea, but everything about it is so well done ( Read more... )

This has been a pretty awesome Sunday. Took the Goblin to see minion-related silliness in Despicable Me 2 in the morning (Read some Harry Potter on the tram - grindylows and merpeople!), then off to Jacquie and Andy's in the afternoon for barbeque and beer in the sunshine, and eating strawberries and cream while watching Andy Murray make history :o

Happy New Year, everybody! :o ( Read more... )

1) Watch out, Beedle's a Bard

JKR's latest is a great little collection of fairy tales/fables in the traditional mould, that stand up to the best of them whilst still being very Rowling in style. Enjoyable as the Tales are, the real joy is in reading Dumbledore's footnotes (and the footnotes to the footnotes!). These include such gems as the ( Read more... )

I don't watch the Harry Potter films (From what I've seen of them, they don't get either the feel or the characterisation of the books right for me), but I still rolled my eyes on hearing this bit of newsI can't help but think this is just a means to spin the franchise out further. There's absolutely no need to split this book into two. If they can ( Read more... )

(I really ought to change this icon; the question's been answered after all...)

I can think of several of you who will appreciate this, so if you haven't seen it yet:

There's another Potter Puppet Pals video up! (probably NSFW) ~8-D

No mention of Merlin's pants though ;o)

I'm doing well for lard this week, what with mountains of cake and savouries at Evie's birthday party on Saturday, meeting Rob Kennedy and others in the Fat Cat for lunch on Sunday, talma's birthday meal at Wasabisabi on Sunday evening, helping eat Evie's leftover cake this evening, and a Lard Club trip to Mei's this Wednesday. Mmmmm...... :o ( Read more... )

JKR managed to take it right up to the wire and resisted the urge to write half a dozen superfluous endings.

I, on the other hand, didn't.

This is just one of the many reasons why she is a best-selling multi-millionaire author and I am not :o)

( One more chapter - contains Deathly Hallows spoilers, obviously )

Wow, who'd have thought that Voldemort would turn out to be Harry's dad? ;o)

Sorry, I'll stop. Here's my inevitable Book 7 review:

( May be considered slightly spoilery by some, nothing major given away, up to you whether you click here or not )

Proper full post this time :o)

(BTW, can someone e-mail me and tell me how to do LJ cuts - I'd find them very useful for long posts like this!) (EDIT: Thanks Tony!)

In what now seems to be a tradition, I queued up for the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince outside Waterstones.

( Midnight sillyness )