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LJ Developments
Nifty - LJ now has a 'like' button. It's a heart that appears after the end of a post, but only if you go into the post itself, not if you're only looking at it on your Feed. The person whose post it is gets an email notification apparently. I like the fact that it's there so I can indicate I read something and liked it even if I didn't have a ( Read more... ) -
Crafty Day
Sunday we had a crafty day at our house, which had a goodly turnout including two new people. We were busy and there was much food and fun and laughter and I got much of the downstairs of the house tidied and vacuumed (a big benefit of crafty day hosting is it makes me do these things) and it was all good ( Read more... ) -
We went out!!!
A while ago Mum spotted an article about a new musical coming to London - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical and she waved this in my direction because we have both long been fans and have several of her albums. When tickets went on sale I snapped some up and yesterday was the day ( Read more... ) -
Recipe for a fabulous birthday
Hang out with friends. Eat cake. Watch silly movies ( Read more... ) -
Cakeage
A while ago Janet and I were talking about Haribo's new Minion sweeties and she opined as how we should give some to Rob because he'd always said he needed minions. Sometime later she sent me a picture of a Minion cake and said she was tempted to try making it for Rob's birthday (or maybe I'm misremembering that part. It was last year, possibly as ( Read more... ) -
Things for which I am grateful
1: My mum, who dropped in yesterday evening unexpectedly for social time and to share baked goods (she'd bought nommy biscuits at Ikea and unbeknownst to her I had made rhubarb scones). It was lovely to get some time to just talk to her outside of our normal routines ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkinisation
It was that time of year so A2 and I turned our minds to the tricky question of what we were going to carve into our pumpkins this year. My challenge was solved when I received an Instructables e-mails that was talking about making your own pumpkin carving tools but that also included a very cool pumpkin picture which I promptly snaffled. A2 ( Read more... ) -
Semi-single parenting ho!
As the kids have aged our ability to both go away for a con at the same time asking Mum to look after the kids while we're away (yes, I live a charmed life and Mum is AMAAAZING) has passed and we rarely do it. However conveniently there are now two filk cons in Germany most years, so I go to DFDF and Phil goes to FilkContinental and everyone is ( Read more... ) -
What the heck are they teaching them these days?
Apparently the answer is lies. I mean, from a certain point of view a module on Greek myths is all imaginary, but that does not mean that you can make your myths up wholesale by mashing 3 other myths together ( Read more... ) -
Running a Worldcon filk track
This is a set of notes in no particular order which were collated by me (Lissa Allcock, should anyone be stumbling on this and not know) as a result of working on Loncon3's filk track in 2014.
I'm not kidding about the 'no particular order' bit - this is just as the memories struck me.
( Behind a cut for excessive length )