Jubilee celebrations! I headed out to Tower Bridge, stood amidst the crowd, and watched the whole pageant float past. Very proud of being British, today.

EDIT: Possibly one of the most British things I've seen - utterly drench, completely windswept, and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing below them, singers from the Royal College of ( Read more... )

I'm in a wonderful mood - well, I would be, but it's all a bit muted now, for being tired. But I woke up early (8 is HORRIFICALLY early for a Sunday!) but the sun was blazing in my windows, and it was just gorgeous outside. Too bad at lunchtime, it decided to rain down like mad :(

So, today was Flat Cleaning Day. Except, it wasn't >.<  I ended up ( Read more... )

Happy Guy Fawkes!
Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot!

(And also for me, therefore, my undergrad thesis. Popish plots abounding!)

I seem to have managed to stitch the fabric to the sewing machine itself. I didn't think that was possible. I only wanted to hem my jeans - but I think the sewing machine is defeating me.

Edit: Success! Well, once I'd stopped trying to use the right kind of foot, and stitch-type, for hemming, and decided just to sew a regular straight line.  But it ( Read more... )

 Right. Am sitting square in the centre of my bed. Computer and tea within reach.

Small mountain of sewing that has been stalking me for ... well over a year, on hand. Needle and thread at the ready. It's time to get on with all the mending I meant to, and then never got round to dealing with.  I just hope it doesn't backfire, in the way that I ( Read more... )

So today, in the pouring rain, my dad taught me how to shovel, mix and pour concrete, in order to lay the foundations for our new garden shed.

It's an all-round education.

(Also, back-breaking work did *not* go out with the Victorian era. Shovelling rubble? With a spade that was around during WWII? Go, my arm muscles.) 

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Teleological: (doctrine the universe/all phenomena/natural processes are being directed towards a goal/designed according to some purpose)

Rodney/Sheppard

Sheppard knew about bonding, about re-evaluating your people and your relationships when you spent the majority of your time trusting them to save your life, and they yours. It was almost expected ( Read more... )

Still trying to learn stuff for exams, still having to look words up in the dictionary because all of a sudden, i'm questioning everything.

Still also all the fault of
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Drabbles in the theme of Stargate: Atlantis, with the eye to memorising a bunch of concepts and definitions. All the fault of 
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