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Here in the Casa d'Aella, Christmas is approaching...
My little sister has revealed that, trusting in the Amazon delivery service, she hasn't even ordered my present yet, I've lost half of her present, and we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the gas man, and the restoration of heat, and food that hasn't been cooked in microwave/toaster.
Joyeux Noel! -
Baa
The effortless meme (on my part, at least ( Read more... ) -
I have just been attacked...
by a kitchen cupboard door. It fell onto my head. I am, apparently, uninjured, if irritated at the lack of sympathy shown by the APs. My mother had an excuse- she was moving the cupboard door. My father does not. -
In Aid of Research...
Does anyone know good biographies of Kit Marlowe? -
Italian Speakers on my F-list...
What would be the Italian equivalent of the word 'Dowager' and would it come before or after the title? i.e. Would it be the Dowager Duchess, or the Duchess Dowager (translated)? -
Yesterday, a first line came to me...
"Rome is not a good city for Necromancers." -
My Father, on Chekov...
"They all blend together, really, into one long "Mad Uncle Vanya in the Cherry Orchard". And meanwhile, there I am, sitting in the stalls, repressing the urge to shout 'Pull yourself together man!'"
(I have just finished Stanislavski in Theatre Studies. Now we're on to Shadow of a Gunman Hurrah!) -
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A short family discussion over dinner has concluded that my father is Mr. Snevilicci, I am Miss Snevilicci, my sister is the Infant Phenomenon, and my mother is Madam Mantellini. -
So...
You may have noticed that I have, recently, been posting little snippets and random questions relating to my Hapsburg 'verse. To save the f'lists of everyone who isn't interested (and because I have a fondly cherished hope that they might be published someday), I will now be filtering them. If you want to go on the filter, comment here and I shall ( Read more... )
