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Future-dated listy-ness
2011
Gigs of special: Pulp (lots), Wild Beasts, Slow Club, Summer Camp, Neneh Cherry, Bellowhead, Jon Boden, She Keeps Bees, Aidan Moffat, John Cooper Clarke (15 surprise minutes), Belle and Sebastian, Tuung, Eddi Reader, Suzanne Vega.
Gogglebox addictions (some fleeting. Honest) Doctor Who, Greek, Spiral, Being Erica, The Good Wife, Archer, Castle ( Read more... ) -
2017
Thank god the Devil's Pinnumber is over. To celebrate I have belatedly joined the LJ exodus to Dreamwidth. And also writing my first post in 3 years. There may even be some political ranting in future, but for now I'll start with the review of last year's music, theatre, books and telly. In the next post that is. -
She's ba-ack
I interrupt this summer of exam hiatus and TVD-centred procrastination to actually make a post.
Wow - isn't LJ a self-sabotaged shadow of its former self. I'm obviously out of the loop. Is Dreamwidth now the lively heart of fandom, or was that one fracture too many?
As for me, my trend of micro-obsessions continues, straddled as ever between stuff ( Read more... ) -
The Changeover
I enjoyed re-reading The Changeover so much this morning that I am racking my brains for friends with teenage children to buy a copy for. Cos they're not getting my ex-library first edition. Isn't it lovely when books that made an impact on you way back when still hold up ( Read more... ) -
March for the Alternative
Unbelievably, that was my first ever protest since I reached voting age. And what a way for start. Babes in arms and children with whistles, firemenandwomen and barristers, librarians and nurses, accountants and drummers marching, wheelchairing and in one case, even tanking for 4, 5 hours through the corridors of power of the capital. Many first ( Read more... ) -
Solstice Lunar eclipse
Was absolutely gorgeous this morning. Stood in a hoar-frosted garden looking at the twinkle in a crystal clear sky as the the sun rose like a fire on the horizon. -
Josie and Pictish Trail
In the sort-of style of some of Josie's characters but not Josie herself cos I don't really know her. Right? Fanks ( Read more... ) -
Still alive
Hello. Still alive. well, at least about to resume life after exams finish nxt Thursday. Will celebrate with wine-tasting that evening, Bellowhead the next day and a surprise birthday party (not mine) the next night. Am considering sidling into London=town for Marc Almond on the 2nd. If I can wangle work ( Read more... ) -
Strangely productive day
Spent 6 straight hours sat in a pub doing accounting coursework with the aid of a single half pint. After a reward of a stronger half pint, came home, uprooting the somewhat blighted tomato plant and now have my first attempt at green tomato soup bubbling on the hearth. As quiet yet bizarre Sundays go... -
Scrumptious Fence on Eigg
Eigg. Eigg. Glorious Eigg. Marvellous Fence. Pirate ships and sunshine for my first ever trip to the Hebrides, to dance, and sing and drink and talk nonsense round bonfires of wagon wheels and stages under evergreens and on the singing sands. A festival deserving of run-on sentences and lifelong love for the DIY scene in general and Fence in ( Read more... )