Yes, I'm looking at you, nutmeg3 and tanuja!
It's the 12th of March here, so I am celebrating for you both.
I hope you have a great day in your different parts of the world. March 12th is clearly an auspicious day, to produce two such warm and wonderful people!
May there be cake, and celebration, and may you both be spoilt rotten. xox

Happy 2010, everyone ( Read more... )

There I was, typing away, when the computer glitched and everything turned itself off, and on again. Clearly some powers or other don't want me to update just now ( Read more... )

Richard Armitage is reading Georgette Heyer's Venetia next. Venetia. Damerel! Ye gods! Abridged, alas, but I'm focussing on the glass half full, here. It's available next April.

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Also, by way of an alert/reminder, Paul Dempsey is Live at the Wireless on Triple J next Monday night, I believe. It's not on the website as I type, but I just ( Read more... )

...from a holiday Tuesday, it being a holiday around the state here, because there's a horse race happening at 3 o'clock (aka the Melbourne Cup, aka the race that stops a nation). The 149th Melbourne Cup, to be precise ( Read more... )

Today, I was lucky enough to see the British National Theatre's production of All's Well That Ends Well. This is a part of the NT Live project of filming productions and thus bringing them to places further than a tube/bus ride from the South Bank: and more power to them, say I ( Read more... )

Posted so I'll remember it.

Bronze Age burial site found at the home of a former rugby club in Suffolk, UK.

I suppose eventually it will be buried again, beneath a new housing estate. Progress? I'd like to think that the Bronze Age burials will be a marketing tool for the developers...

I should have put this in my first post for the day, but it deserves unwavering attention:

Happy birthday, tigerbeard!

Hope it's a grand day, and all the botherers in the office have left you and your team alone to get on with things.

I trust there will be lots of cake somewhere along the line!

Hmmm, it seems weeks have passed since I last wrote ( Read more... )

And I feel fine.

That's what I woke up to this morning- at least, promises of the same. There was an almighty dust storm in Sydney and an extended area in New South Wales and Southern Queensland; hail stones the size of golf balls were falling elsewhere, and here in Victoria we had earth tremors. Brimstone and treacle were moments away ( Read more... )