Doing a darned good job of making the best of not working. I've been taking advantage of getting offers to see plays for free, as well as doing lots of running, so I'm actually really perky. I also did an hour of canoeing today in preparation for trying for my British Canoeing Union two star certification. Best unemployment yet ( Read more... )

Here is a picture of the cashmere shawl my roommate made for me.


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I had this idea last night, of an image I could put on business cards to introduce people to me as a writer of theater reviews and SF comedy, and I thought of an image of a cowgirl riding, I don't know, a giant squid or something. Maybe an octopus, or a cuttlefish. A Google image search came up with this picture, which wasn't really a cowgirl but ( Read more... )

Winchester, the longest cathedral in England. Figuring most of you aren't on 4square so thought I'd share some pictures here.

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I had good luck getting into town at a decent hour - as I flew a domestic flight there was (for once) no passport control, and I managed to get a slightly earlier train than I expected. Thus home at 11, but had to take a shower as overheated then my roommate showed up and we had to have a little chat about details of her moving out this weekend. ( Read more... )

This weekend was blazingly fun. Saturday I spent the morning cleaning and cooking, with bonus shadowdaddy to help with the yard and organization.
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Great party last night and thank you so much to booklectic and djm for hosting! I can't believe how many people were there and how many people I talked to - people were just coming out of the woodwork! Special thanks to lolliepopp and babysimon for checking in with me all night - I'd been having a crappy day and it was nice to know they Had My Back. I've posted my pictures on ( Read more... )

I made a yummy cobbler tonight (inspired by djm saying he was going to pick blackberries and then make a pie with them):

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The recipe is from the Morning Grange cookbook my grandma gave me years ago. It was actually a bit hard to find one that used fresh fruit and didn't use self-rising flour. (I also rejected the one that called for a box of butter ( Read more... )

This has been one of the best weeks in memory. It got off to a great start with a weekend of tremendous lazing about in the garden of my flat, then progressed to (Monday) ballet at lunchtime, being taken out to dinner with shadowdaddy and fed prodigious quantities of white wine, (Tuesday) more dance at lunch, going to a hysterical show with J, wechsler and booklectic at which ( Read more... )

I'm going to get my review of the Walking in my Mind show at the Hayward written up at some point today, but I wanted to share this picture of the Intrepid Well Spotted ExplorerVane:


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