Over the bank holiday weekend, we headed off on Sunday to visit the Battle of Britain Bunker. Because it is, like, practically on my doorstep. Having kept the Bunker completely secret all through WWII, while it was the home of Fighter Command 11 Group, they seem to have lost the knack of telling people where it is. However! During weekends this ( Read more... )

Some time ago, someone gave me a Rituals Foaming Shower Sensation in White Lotus and Green Tea. It's the sort of ridiculous posh toiletry that I enjoy, but would never buy for myself. Having been forgetting to dig new shower gel out of the cupboard for weeks (and stealing ChrisC's in the interim, don't tell him) I broke it out this morning ( Read more... )

I've written here before about going to Cake Parties - the principle is simple: make cake, take cake to party, eat cake. Then we tried a pie party, which worked pretty well. This time the host decreed we were going to have a Christmas party. She would provide us with turkey curry and mulled cider, the rest of us were to bring Christmassy cakes ( Read more... )

Last Friday, I skated quickly into London after work to go to the Natural History Museum. frax had spotted an interesting-looking event, a "Crime Scene Live" evening which seemed pretty much directed at role-players (a fact somewhat bolstered by falling over metame in the queue, then running into leathellin waiting for lanfykins before we'd even managed to get our own party ( Read more... )

I've never been sure whether I was a fan of constrained writing techniques. They always strike me as way more fun to write than they are to read. (In general, of course... largely, the more constrained, the less fun. Unless the writer is dead clever.)

But anyway, today I have just learned about Oulipo. Via the medium of someone doing a Pulp cover ( Read more... )

Aargh. I have been shockingly remiss. Slightly in posting here, but mostly in providing my thanks to someone...

Last weekend, I wombled into the house and found a pretty postcard on the doormat with some botanical-y sort of plants on it. ( I turned it over and giggled )