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LJ Idol Season 8: Week 1
When you pray, move your feet
The facile response to this is that, yes, if you're kneeling through the prayers and you don't move your feet, you'll get pins and needles and will have difficulty even hobbling up to the communion rail ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 8
OK, I'm in. (Guess I know what not to post this time. In fact, I'll privatise that post, as it had no business being on the public internet anyway). -
It's a trap: LJ Idol Week 3
It is a cold, misty, polluted November evening in Cambridge. Many of the streetlights are out in the tourist centre, as are those just round the little snicket on the way home where no sane tourist would venture. For this snicket is also used as the cut-through by the damaged and addicted homeless people on their way to the largest of the town's ( Read more... ) -
De(con)struction: LJ Idol Week 2
When people think of an engineer (if they ever think of one at all, that is), the concept of "construction" is more likely to spring to mind than that of "deconstruction" (or indeed "destruction ( Read more... ) -
Winding up: All Souls' Day: LJ Idol Week 1
All Souls' Day has been and gone, and the year draws inexorably to a close ( Read more... ) -
Introduction: LJ Idol Week 0
In another life, I might really have been called Erica Crawford. I'm a descendant of a sept of the Crawford clan and my parents would have called me Heather had my initials not then spelled out a synonym for a witch. Instead I got Australians thinking I was lame and laughing at me. Thank you, Neighbours and Home and Away for extending that ( Read more... )