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How I spent my Easter holidays.
What strange things come out of procrastination.
I, for example, have spent some time developing a ( Grand Unified Theory of Doctor Who ) -
A thing I don't understand...
Why do so many Christians wanting to preach salvation back up the key points of their arguments by saying 'as it is written in the Bible ( Read more... ) -
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The alfgifus are sitting at the computer, having just engulfed a cookie from Sainsburys. A big cookie with chocolate chips ( Read more... ) -
Unnatural Autumn
Summer searing out the hearts of leaves ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I read Peter Pan in Scarlet. The author has worked out things in Neverland according to an understanding of certain rules (for example, that wearing someone else's clothes slowly turns you into them). Some of the rules I found familiar, others I didn't. She also has a peculiar aversion to anything being anybody's fault, and to letting ( Read more... ) -
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They are the dreamers of dreams ( Read more... ) -
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Work, work, work. I actually think I'm beginning to read my Latin more or less fluently! Hooray! I'm going to take advantage of this after the exams and start making more use of my beautiful book of Virgil.
In other news: having seen larissa_bright's posting of her old fanfiction.net profile, I went hunting through the bowels of my doughty computer Edith for ( Read more... ) -
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Here's an article about London's Stone from the BBC website. It's a legend I've liked ever since I first came across it. This sort of thing makes me very glad of living in London. The last few comments are also amusing ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday evening I had another letter back from a literary agent about Eloise. There are still two to come, by my reckoning. This one gave me pause, and made me wonder whether I'm right to throw away all hope yet ( Read more... ) -
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Another delayed update. It's a Friday afternoon, I'm sleepy and having trouble focussing on Celtic Palaeography post-850, so naturally I'm taking a break by considering the argument put forward by this page in favour of replacing decimal with hexadecimal in our everyday lives ( Read more... )