My birthday present from ephiriel has arrived, It's a twenty-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary, something I've always wanted. I dare not think what it might have cost her...

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Fron clanwilliam: Bookshops, Alan Moore, P-Con, ephiriel, Dublin.

Bookshops: As far back as I can remember, I've always loved Bookshops, and am ( Read more... )

Our modem has decided to stop working for the moment, so we've had no broadband since Wednesday, which is a nuisance. I'm in the Secret Book and Record Store for the day, so I've had a chance to have look back over my Friends' List, where I note that one of you has been running through the streets of Dublin naked, and another of you has had a ( Read more... )

Herself is away with the ICA doing something crafty, so I'm alone* until Sunday evening, the longest time we've spent apart since we got married. However, this evening I've got HIGNFY, The Blame Game, and QI on BBC Two and then on BBC Four to keep me occupied, as well as the Christmas issue of Book & Magazine Collector, so I may manage to survive ( Read more... )

This has happened to me...


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ephiriel is at the Knitting & Stitching Show at the NEC in Birmingham, where she has just encountered a Hairy Biker.


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ephiriel did her Driving Theory Test on Wednesday morning, scoring 40 out of 40, as of course I knew she would. Her certificate stating this is signed by L Skidmore.

It being the day that's in it, I'd like you all to know that I love Deirdre Walsh very much. She is my best friend, my advisor, my confidant, my lover, my constant companion, my harshest proof-reader, and the posessor of an extremely fine bottom. I hope we have many many more years together, completely in love with one another.

Here's Deirdre, her mother, and her sister Caitriona at the wedding in Colchester a few weeks back. That's Deirdre in the middle.


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Tonight I get to see the last episode of the new series of Doctor Who. Rose dies, as you all presumably know, but I think there may be a bit more to it than that. My own theory, based on absolutely nothing at all, is that she ends up becoming the spirit of the Tardis (or should that be TARDIS, as it's an acronym ( Read more... )