World's Sexiest Writer 2007

August 12, 2007

Vince and some of his pals at Crimespace have set up a poll to find the World's Sexiest Writer 2007. The nice thing about it is that you can add people to the list, not just be forced to vote for one of the existing entrants. Of course, I entirely deny that I added any […]

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Maybe the lavender harvest hasn't been a total bust

August 10, 2007

The thing about weddings is that the majority of the work is in getting the detail right. Luckily, I like detail. One such detail is how to do the place settings at the wedding breakfast. Everyone will have a specific place to sit, but how to we indicate who is sitting where? I don't like […]

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Flood

August 5, 2007

I've had an interest in extreme weather events for as long as I can remember. Indeed, I very nearly did a meteorology degree at Southampton University, but had decided that it was just too close to home – only half an hour across the New Forest from where my parents lived. As it was, I […]

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Waily! Waily! The wrong burgundy!

August 4, 2007

Dammit. I don't believe this. Not only is the mulberry paper I bought the wrong one, but the burgundy card I got isn't actually the right burgundy, even though it looked like it was in the shop. Waily! Waily! Waily!

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Mornington Crescent on Twitter

August 3, 2007

I blame Lloyd for this morning's game of Mornington Crescent on Twitter. I don't think that everyone could see every player – Lloyd has some people that I didn't see, and I know I had some that he couldn't see, and there were some players that I tried to follow but Twitter wouldn't show me […]

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The Seeker: The Dreck is Still Rising

August 2, 2007

Walden Media have changed the name of their abominable adaptation of The Dark Is Rising to “The Seeker: The Dark is Rising”, and have reposted a new version of the trailer to YouTube. Conveniently, this gets rid of all the comments from the old one, so I suggest that if you're as unhappy about this […]

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A suffusion of… puce, I think it is

August 1, 2007

Good to see that Neil's Official Web Elf has our best interests at heart, rather than his.

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The Dark Is Rising: Innocent children's book brutally slaughtered by film-makers

July 31, 2007

I don't think I've ever got so wound up by the film adaptation of a book that I've found myself struggling to express myself. But from what I've read today about David L Cunningham's adaptation of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, the second book in the eponymous sequence, well, I'm horrified almost to the […]

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Is that burgundy, or more a sort of plum?

July 29, 2007

At last! After gathering a sample of pretty much every shade of burgundy card available in London, I've finally found exactly the right one! Yes, I will admit that I've been on a bit of a mission, and yes, perhaps I've been a bit more rigourous than maybe I needed to be, but I am […]

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The ring!

July 25, 2007

It's come! Finally! Yay!!! Kevin brought home some bubbly, and cooked a lovely meal and, just when I was least expecting it, he came round to my side of the table, got down on one knee, and re-proposed! Of course, I re-accepted. It's amazing to finally have the ring after so long. The stones are […]

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Weird day today

July 24, 2007

I had such plans for today, including lunch plans, that all went for a Burton when I noticed at about 10.30 that I couldn't read. My heart sank. I hate migraines, and the first sign for me is that I lose the ability to see what's in the centre of my field of vision. Shortly […]

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Day Watch

July 22, 2007

In the autumn of 2005, I was out on a second date with a rather lovely American guy that I'd met a month or so before. That Sunday, we'd arranged to meet for lunch – which is always a fairly safe bet for a second date, given that one can make up an afternoon engagement […]

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Tip bach am Firefox

July 21, 2007

Os dach chi'n defnyddio'r porwr Firefox – ac os dach chi ddim, pam ddim?! – ac dach chi eisiau gweld popeth sydd yn Gymraeg yn Gymraeg, rhaid i chi newid eich blaenoriaethau iaith i Gymraeg. Ewch i 'Preferences', wedyn 'Advanced' a chlicio ar y tab 'General' ac ar waelod y tudalen byddwch chi'n gweld adran […]

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It's Caturday!

July 21, 2007

Thanks to the Lolcat Generator.

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And progress on the dress, too

July 18, 2007

After the disappointment of the last dressmaker I spoke to, who turned out to have a totally unreasonable attitude towards whether or not one should pay for quotes (wtf?! If it was acceptable to pay for quotes, builders would do nothing else!), I turned back to one of the first dressmakers that I found from […]

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