Interesting morning. Got up. Looked out of window. Saw howling blizzard. Winced. Thought about not going into work, but thought was probably OK down in Selkirk. Got in car. Drove through blizzard. Didn't improve. Thought would turn back if snow gates closed. Snow gates open. Bugger. Drove on. Saw snow plough. Stopped snowing. Hmm. Started snowing ( Read more... )

I feel the need to make a post so I think it's time for that flist love meme that's doing the rounds. I haven't done it before, and it's time I did ( Read more... )

Gacked from ScieppanWow that's a toughie. I have a list of places - I'm a true tourist at heart. Assumning that language and spending money are no problem lessee ( Read more... )

This meme is interesting, not least for its youthful US-centricity, so I added some other stuff for those of us of an elderly Brit persuasion and deleted others ( Read more... )

I've suddenly realised I've been rather silent for the last week or so. Not really had anything worth posting. I got some wonderful feedback on chapter 14 of The Coldest Dish from episcopalwitch, although I am bearing in mind the big caveat. I also had some very useful comments on chapter 12 from metallumaiI'm currently wibbling away on chapter 17, and have the horrible ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've done any quizzes. ;)

( What rabid Harry Potter fanfiction reader are you? )

Gacked from just about everybody.

So apparently I'm male. *shrugs* Learn something new everyday. While I would guess there is probably something in this written language and gender thing, I would suspect that the algorithm has been simplified too much. And then there's all the writers of romance fiction that turn out to be male writing under ( Read more... )

I always knew it somehow ( aroooooo )

Went out last night and met deralte. It was great fun, we nattered for hours, and could probably have nattered all night. It was so refreshing to talk to another fan in RL and not get the funny looks I usually get when I talk about HP to other adults.

( OOtP meme gacked from everybody )

Wow! Bored Beyond Belief has just updated Never Alone Never Again. I keep wondering where this story is going, how it's going to end - if she'll ever finish - looks like it's getting near the end now though.

Re-read Between the Devil and Durmstrang, by loupnoir which is on my list of favourite fics and has been since the first time I read it ( Read more... )