I am now firmly locked in the embrace of Catching Fire, book two in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy. I was kind of dreading it, since I was convinced that there was no way it could be nearly as good as the first book. Well, I was wrong, wasn't I. It's one of those dangerous books that keep you reading even though you should really go off ( Read more... )

I'm home! Actually, I got back yesterday late afternoon, but by the time I had unpacked and cuddled the cat and caught up with everything you lot have written while I was away, I was absolutely knackered and had to go to bed. (The hotel did have WiFi, but it wasn't included in the price, and I was too stingy to fork out the fee ( Read more... )

This morning bracke called and asked if I would join her and a few others for an impromptu contradance practice, since she, nazgman and Seamstress are going to Westgiöta Gustavianer's Autumn Ball. So I rooted out the music and dance descriptions I could find, and ventured out in the rain and thunder. Halfway into town, the skies just opened and water was ( Read more... )

Damn, I'm crap at updating.

Saturday evening I was picked up by bracke, nazgman and Seamstress, and taken to the Dalby quarry where we had a picnic and went swimming. It was very nice. :) And my mother called me to say that the fan I'd bought her had probably saved her life ( Read more... )

My neighbours asked me if I wanted to dogsit for them lst night, as they were going to a Wild West-themed party. They also asked if I could drive them to the party. I said I could, and asked if I could use their car while I had the keys. "Sure", they said. So I drove them to the party and then drove to acropetal's place and picked her up, and took us both ( Read more... )

Neither acropetal nor I are the kind of people who get invited to wild Midsummer parties (apparently), so we decided to meet up on Midsummer's Eve and have a picnic (if the weather behaves), and maybe watch something Sci-Fi-related afterwards ( Read more... )

There is (for the first time since I've lived here, I think) a country family market in this town this weekend. I went there to have a look Friday evening. It was the usual mix of fun rides and stalls selling cheap tacky stuff. And not very many of them, at that. But there was a stand where they were giving out free security key fobs, the ones that ( Read more... )

Gil-galad and Luinil were just here. Or just, they arrived late yesterday afternoon, and we went into town and they bought me Thai dinner at Mae Yai, an then I walked them around town for a bit an then we went back to my place, where they stayed the night. They're on a week-long car holiday to Skåne. It was very nice to have them here! And Rosa was ( Read more... )

Yesterday acropetal and I inspected each other's cats! First she came over and inspected Lisa-Rosa (and approved/was approved), and then we went to her place (by way of the shop), and I inspected her Isis, who is a tiny, thin little waif of nothingness when you are used to a big, heavy fluffball like Rosa-Lisa. ^^ She's a Russian Blue kitten, and has that ( Read more... )

And also the Glorious 25th of May. And the lilacs are just coming into bloom. But nobody answered my appeal to have a Towel Day picnic, so I'll just have to walk around with a towel and a sprig of lilac on my lonesome. (And the weather *is* a bit too cold for picnic comfort ( Read more... )