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flowers
Some marigolds and a sunflower from the balcony.
I just noticed there were a couple of dead lice in the middle of this sunflower :-D Very loverly.
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getting crowded on the balcony
Some photographs from my now rather cramped little garden. So far there have been blessedly few bugs, because of the cool and rainy weather.
Here's Utu doing what she does best in the shadow of some sweet peas.
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oulu here I come... urm in about 5 weeks
Reserved flights for my summer vacation trip to Oulu.
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Alex Beecroft, Captain's Surrender
During the last couple of years, I've bought quite a lot of m/m ebooks and almost invariably been indifferent or disappointed. So, it is with great joy that I can actually recommend Captain's Surrender, a historical m/m erotic romance which you can buy both in ebook and print format.
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shakshuka
Lately I've been trying some new dishes again. Today I made the most delicious new food in ages! Recipe from this excellent food blog (in Finnish) -- click for a photo if you're interested. I changed the recipe a bit though.
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Standish
A few days ago I finished Standish, the gay Regency romance by Erastes, and I've been meaning to write about it ever since. I'm really tired, so this is going to be horrible, but I need to do this before I start forgetting stuff.
This will contain spoilers.
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historical resource page updated
Updated and cleaned up the page I keep on my favorite books and sites for 18th century historical research.
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i can see you again!
Something really really silly to notice after all this time: people communicate to me with their LJ userpics! My custom theme was set to hide user pics for such a long time, that I forgot how people use them... O_O ( Read more... ) -
grim figures of women in sf
The very depressing statistics of female vs. male authors in speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror).
http://www.broaduniverse.org/stats.html
via otterdance (Lynn Flewelling)
