The laptop is still on the sick list. One of the programs for getting it back on its feet shut it down in such a way that it wouldn't boot. Yeah. Apparently it just needed to sulk for a couple of days, though. Having found the Vista (not my fault) recovery disk, I turned it on to get the "rescue" disk (please note the sarcastic quote marks) and it ( Read more... )

Just been very, very busy.

Today is the last day of posting for hds_beltane. I have two things left to post this evening. (Yes, ships_harry, one of them is your gift fic - you are not forgotten!) It has been really difficult this year. There were fewer sign-ups to start with, a high number of dropouts, nearly all of them on or after the deadline. Commenting seems to ( Read more... )

• Just slept with the window open for the first time this year. Loving this warm spell so much ( Read more... )

I notice a number of people are getting Dreamwidth accounts. If you are looking for me, I am
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This would be an assortment of random bullet points if I had the energy for bullet points. But I don't, so I'm just going to slosh my brain out onto the screen.

hd_writers has shiny new banners, thanks to kayoko.


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Sorry about the coding fail that left my pics outside the cut yesterday, I've fixed that now.

There was a thing, and hd20 is gone, but the gang have now set up hd_writers instead. So it's business as usual - we've got a 48 Hour Word War coming up next weekend (19th March), and we'll also be running a Get Shit Done week over at gsd_rtfn. First check in will be ( Read more... )

I LOVE YOU, treacle_tartlet!!!

Thank you so much for the extra icon space, darling! I have nearly doubled my icons already this morning. I don't know what I'm going to do with them all!

Wait. Nearly doubled. Clearly I am not trying hard enough. I'm sure I can find four more!

Why did I not know about this? Why?!

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Many many moons ago I went to Normandy with my Mum to stay with a relative for a long weekend. He took us to Mont St Michel, which is a very beautiful place. Packed to the rafters with tourists, but absolutely worthwhile. As we walked along the causeway toward the island we paused, and he said to me, "It's like something out of Harry Potter. Can't ( Read more... )