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Convention weekend omg
I flew to Melbourne yesterday to be here for PAX Australia, and then spent today visiting family, and I'd only just recovered from a cold when we left, and so I am going into PAX with rather less energy saved up than I might have hoped. Despite my experience last year and my best intentions to try to take it a bit easier to avoid burnout ( Read more... ) -
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Today in art requests from the smaller and more distant nieces ( Read more... ) -
That poppy time of year
It was Anzac Day this week and the entire town is a sea of paper poppies and plywood poppies and crocheted poppies. Poppies on trees and poppies on churches and poppies on kindergartens ( Read more... ) -
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The way some people think about numbers bothers me SO MUCH. I am far from a mathematical genius (I got up to fourth form) but the way some people think about probability REALLY bugs me. Today's instance: "Oh, but you don't know for sure, you're making assumptions!" when I prepare myself for something I consider 90% likely to happen - this person ( Read more... ) -
maybe it's three things but only by accident
There were no onions in my house so I shouldn't have skipped the fruit and veg the other day. I bought onions and then fried a big skillet of onions and it was like a sausage sizzle came to my house, only the sausages were vegetarian. I am very satisfied with my tummy full of onion ( Read more... ) -
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My father's garden was looking nice when I went over. I commented on it and next minute he's picking courgettes and handing them over and giving me big long leaves of black kale to take home. I didn't need to stop in at the fruit and veg on the way home after all. My father says his mother would spin in her grave if he didn't grow some of his own ( Read more... ) -
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Things I did on the first day of the new year ( Read more... ) -
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Nat King Cole can sing all the Christmas music for me this year. I don't need anyone else's voice when his is so perfect.
Although Bing Crosby is welcome to do one or two as well. I will just have to come to terms with having my father's taste in music this Christmas.
It's a pity neither of them ever recorded Santa Baby.
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How do other people do bookmarks? I may have bookmarked so many things that Firefox can't cope any more and now it's very erratic whether I can make a new bookmark or not. My partner is no help because he only bookmarks things like the internet banking website and Youtube and the weather website, whereas I think bookmarks are for things I don't ( Read more... ) -
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There might be something to be said for this spring pumpkin festival. I saw a girl in her fancy dress at 11am, playing with a dog outside her house; she had on an entirely normal T-shirt and shorts, and a pale blue wig tied in two tails, and she was carrying a plastic battleaxe. The overall impression was of some sort of icy fjordian war goddess ( Read more... )
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