What do you do to get rid of stress?

Read entertaining (as opposed to depressing or frightening) novels, preferably set in a time and/or place that is very different to mine. I've always been able to lose myself in fictional worlds; as a child I annoyed my parents by just not hearing them when they tried to get my attention. Sadly I can no longer ( Read more... )

I've been having a discussion about Christmas stories and traditions, and secret Santa which reminded me of this Farmers (department store) TV ad about one. There are not many ads I don't FF through or mute, but these are among them.

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I should add that the milk and biscuits/cookies are an American import. Note: yes, it's summer here ( Read more... )

I refuse to give the shithead and its supporters and other right-wing and religious extremists the power to depress me. The best revenge - resistance in this case - is living well.

Entertainment and laughter are good for mental and physical health. I have recently discovered the very funny Mike and Molly (real-looking people!!!) and am going through ( Read more... )

We just watched the Sherlock special and it was as superb as I expected. Excellent stuff!

And it's led me to reanimate an old idea.

( Spoilers )

Ooh, this looks interesting! As are some of the comments: will there be a TARDIS in the background, will Sherlock see movement out of the corner of his eye while passing a graveyard with stone angels...

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Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
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I've been looking forward to this for so long, and it was fun!

( Spoilery comments )

First up, I should say that I haven't seen the latest ep; that'll be tonight.

( Major spoilers! )

I'm starting 6 weeks of mixed-media art class tonight which will be a change from the digital stuff I usually do. I have brushes, art paper, oil pastels, watercolour pencils, but do you think I can find my acrylic paints? I've looked everywhere I can think of, and I really wanted to do acrylics. Damn.

This also means that I won't see OUaT or ( Read more... )

I got my hair cut today and on my way home I was behind Lucy Lawless in her car with the custom "1 XENA 1 Warrior Princess" numberplate. She was going to one of my local supermarkets which is odd because she doesn't live in this part of town ( Read more... )

Axle grease of a certain flavourThere is this black axle-grease stuff called Marmite that we like to eat (sparingly in my case) on toast or bread and it's different from the Marmite they have in the UK. Unfortunately. Because the only factory that made it is in Christchurch and has been closed because of earthquake damage. It will be months before ( Read more... )