Happily 2012 seems to be ending with improved fortune for some friends - a good omen for 2013 hopefully! To keep the celebratory character of the mood, I thought I'd show a few photos from Christmas here in Oxford, UK.


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As the UK heads towards its Easter holiday celebration this weekend, the traditional period of fasting (usefully co-inciding with that time of the year when, in years gone by, food stocks would have run very low!) which we call Lent comes to an end.

As the feasting season is in sight, a friend made me a Simnel cake (a fruit cake for Easter) and I ( Read more... )

Some of you will have seen this creepy picture which I made to send seasonal shivers up the spines of Gackt Army members:


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Today I have two magazines to add to the Gackt treasure trove (please click on the image for a better view):


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I'm ignoring the fact that we're already eating windfall apples and that I could see my breath when I cycled to work this morning:  here's a summer flower post (roses this week after rain - well, this is England) and a glimpse of the new arrival for the Gackt gallery (poster promoting the Joetsu Uesugi Kenshin festival in which Gackt is again ( Read more... )

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As I can't send the real flowers from my garden as a token of the huge thanks I owe to the generous and wonderful ditch_gospel for an unexpected and undeserved saiyuki (manga series) gift which arrived this morning, I thought I'd post some photos from today for everybody to see.  Here are three different views of the garden in general: 
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Thanks to a wholly wonderful friend in Gackt Army, I've welcomed this new arrival (bottom poster) to look ultra cool in my hot orange corridor!   (please click on the the thumbnail for larger size pic ( Read more... )

I'm putting my birthday card for chikotori  here as she spans both my major internet fandoms - saiyuki and Gackt - and is currently suffering from an attack of exams so might not be looking at the more distracting fandom-specific sites.

C, thank you for all your translations of Gackt interviews and for our discussions on saiyuki writing.  Despite the ( Read more... )

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