I just had the last bit of my Napue gin from last year's WorldCon in Finland. I might have to investigate whether I can get it in the UK because I've come to really love the flavour the rye gives it.

Things I did this weekend include

• Watched all of The Handmaid's Tale S1 because obviously that's a great idea when feeling stressed and anxious (got ( Read more... )

So... Avengers: Age of Ultron then ( Read more... )

I'm going to talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier under a cut in a minute but first I just need to vent (again) about the utter hideousness of 3D films ( Read more... )

So I have proved that I am currently failing at theatre reviews but maybe I can talk about a film. Under a spoiler cut.

(incidentally, I love and adore all of you but some people's ideas of avoiding spoilers are getting a little Joey Tribbiani ♥)

( Thor: The Dark World )

So presumably by now Mark Cavendish and Peta Todd are Mr & Mrs ( Read more... )

This week is... well the less said about reality this week the better I think so have some fannish/media/unreal things (someone made the internet/real life distinction to me earlier today and I had to take a very deep breath and remind myself that not everybody wants to hear my opnions on false dichotomies ( Read more... )

In a fairly uncharacteristic move I have actually booked myself a ticket to see Iron Man 3 this weekend... part of my determination to actually get to films while they're still on in cinemas this year *g* 2D though, I fear I am well and truly over 3D however good it is ( Read more... )

Today is being one of those all-over-the-place sort of days. Everything I start gets interrupted by half a dozen other enquiries/problems. Still most of them are also important?

So here is a post with a structure as fractured as my thoughts are right now (that sounds almost poetic doesn't it?)

In the shoes of … Ela Farrell | Specialist in ( Read more... )

So the Tour de France has started! In fact today is only stage 2 and we've already had

• customised bikes (George Hincapie now holds the record for most Tour de France starts- 17! and he's finished all but one of those) (well obviously he also hasn't finished this one yet) (#dontgogeorge)
  
• smashed up bikes
  
• multiple smashed up riders
  
• a spectacular ( Read more... )

So as of today I have either seen, or am booked to see, all of Shakespeare's plays (all= the ones in the First Folio) except the Henry VIs. Given my plan was to see them all before I'm 30 I still have a year to try and track down productions of those three... preferably in English *g ( Read more... )