I read Bernard Cornwell's Harlequin because of the archery theme, but didn't like it much thanks to all the rape and plunder. The lead character really enjoyed those aspects of his work. I can't help but wonder whether the author and modern male readers secretly think, "That sounds fun! Those were the days ( Read more... )

I'm following three current shows, which is a record for me, and have ordered The West Wing, which is going to be my catch-up show for 2011. The whole series plus postage is just under A$60 from Amazon UK.

House: I started watching House just before the wonderful early Season 5 episode Birthmarks, in which Wilson accompanies (or rather, forcibly ( Read more... )

I've now read all but three of the 21 book Sharpe series and I think I understand why there isn't more Sharpe fanfiction. The books give much more weight to the relationships between the characters than I expected, and so in many ways are almost like fanfiction ( Read more... )

I've fixed my problem with the TV version of Sharpe's Waterloo by reading the book. (You may ask what I'm doing reading one of the last books when I've just recently discovered the pleasures of chronological order, but people don't change their spots - or stripes! - that easily. I think I've skim-read more than half of the books already.) I'm ( Read more... )

Yesterday morningI got as wet as I ever have working outside, and driving from client to client I thought about what it must have physically been like to be a soldier in the 19th century. Sharpe didn't expect to be dry. From Sharpe's Company ( Read more... )

My Sharpe consumption is continuing unabated. I jumped out of order last night because I discovered all of Sharpe's Challenge, the final episode so far, online on YouTube and couldn't resist. I sat up quite late until I got to a part that was so satisfying to me I could bear to stop for a few hours, went to bed and then finished it off this morning ( Read more... )

I've been rewatching Sharpe, in order this time. It started innocently enough last weekend when I was looking for something to watch while working out with weights (The Persuaders has been on hold while sarren has been otherwise occupied), but it's taken on a life of its own, and what started with one episode each evening has become several episodes a ( Read more... )

I seem to be drifting away from LJ and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing. The other day I spent my free computer time happily writing an accounting procedures manual for a non-profit organisation, which is odd behaviour. Life is full and varied at the moment and maybe I'm getting everything I need offline? I still read everyone's ( Read more... )

I was minding my own business, planting trees and killing weeds, when I went to a party and saw a vid and sent an email and watched an episode and now I think I've done what I said I wasn't going to do this winter and picked up a new obsession interest ( Read more... )