i'm currently reading 'harry potter and the deathly hallows'... and despite considering the storyline and the writing fairly mediocre, i'm enjoying it *smile* i thought i was going to find it more of a chore to read than i am, but it's panning out to be not too arduous. and i notice that within the words/imagery, there's a lot of colour. i don't ( Read more... )

i enjoyed the anarchist bookfair on saturday ( Read more... )

i'm intending to get along to the anarchist bookfair later today. i'm hoping to meet al there in the afternoon, and acquire swami_leelaa later *smile* i'm also hoping i might briefly catch sei531 there, and maybe khalinche and lydiasings...

but in the meantime, breakfast *smile*

Call for Submissions for a Proposed Edited Volume: Transforming Sociology: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity ( Read more... )

the anarchist bookfair is happening in london this weekend coming... http://www.anarchistbookfair.co.uk/

picking up the enfield advertiser (free) newspaper yesturday evening, the front cover runs a story proclaiming the death of Douglas Hill. it shows a pciture of him, and the number 121 bus that ran over him. i hadn't known he'd been living in wood green ( Read more... )

today i stumbled upon, and have ordered a copy of, the interesting looking book Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), by Sharyn, Graham Davies.

and, o my!i dug the vegetable patch over!i have since realised that i will need to erect such a very big fence, for such a very small patch of garden! to keep the growing vegetables safe from foxlets in the main, tho also cats and pigeons ( Read more... )

a couple/few weeks back i wrote about watching (and enjoying) the film 'children of men'.
since then i've read the book it was inspired by - 'the children of men' by p.d. james. ( Read more... )

scousecat gifted me a copy of david bader's 'one hundred great books in haiku'.
reading inspired us (scousecat, me & mymouse) to write a few of our own. ( Read more... )