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Monthly book round-up - January (9 books)
(Pictures are links to Amazon; I don't know if anyone's boycotting them because of the most recent kerfuffle - I'm not, because it seems like bog-standard two capitalist companies fighting over...
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I am my own special creation
Tonight I was out for dinner at Red Onion and it were lovely. The website is very proud of the fact that George Clooney has eaten there, AND Calvin Harris. Whoa. I was out with most of my bosses, which...
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Ian Carmichael died. RIP.More cheerfully, this reminded me to do my occasional search for Lord Peter Wimsey DVDs, which have been out of print and v. expensive for years, and lo and behold they've been...
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Issue driven
I've spent a reasonable amount of the past two days reading the latest fandom imbroglio, this time about...well, it started off being about straight women writing m/m slash, but it widened, as these...
View ArticleWriter's Block: Kids or child-free?
I'm going to post February's books later (!), but I spotted this chance to witter about childfreeness too.I'm childfree. I can't remember ever wanting kids, and I do remember having an argument with my...
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Memery
I will do a Newcastle post. And a book post. But for now, a meme, via roobarb:Do you get crotchety and gnash your false teeth at all those memes that ask, “Have you ever kissed someone?” “Do you have a...
View ArticleDoctor Who - Series 5 Trailer [BBC America]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzcgssMucHEBBC America trailer is better than ours, I think. Not sure about that last shot, but still loving Amy's accent.
View ArticleDoctor Who 5.01 The Eleventh Hour
Down from Heaven comes ELEVENand there's HELL to pay belowshout "GERONIMO""GERONIMO". New theme: love the graphics, quite like the 80s-tastic fonts, not sure about the music. Adore the new TARDIS, oh...
View ArticleDoctor Who 5x02 The Beast Below
I have the end of a nasty cold and still cannot brain, so I kept feeling like I'd missed something in tonight's episode, when I wasn't feeling like I was a bit too far ahead of it. Will have to watch...
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So there's this election thing soon....
The most recent reason why I'm definitely not voting Labour came in through my letterbox today.Now, I don't know whether this leaflet was printed and/or posted before last Thursday, when there could...
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Doctor Who 5.04 The Time of Angels.
THAT'S more like it.That's how you start a two-parter. It actually feels like we got about half the story, and the cliffhanger doesn't feel as forced as some of the other ones have - I'm thinking of...
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#iagreewithnick
Take the Who Should You Vote For? Scotland quizLiberal Democrat61Green47Scottish National Party44Labour-7Conservative-9UK Independence-32You expected: LIBYour recommendation:Liberal DemocratClick here...
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Article 12
Via cavalorn, the best Doctor Who fanvid of all time ever. The Tenth Doctor: The Musical.
View ArticleYou come from nothing - you're going back to nothing. What have you lost?...
Brushing swiftly past the obligatory WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING, PEOPLE WHO SAID YOU'D VOTE LIB DEM AND DIDN'T, the result of this election really wasn't terrible. Here's why.When I eventually...
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Booklovers
I just (skim)read 12 days' worth of your LJ entries. Hugs to, oh, what seems like about 75% of you. On the other hand, YAYCONGRATS to startron on finishing uni! (Also, I can remember when I'd hit the...
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View Poll: #1572886I do need to replace my desktop computer, and going by all the sites I've looked at and the people I know, I can't really see a reason to buy another desktop rather than a laptop....
View ArticleDoctor Who 5.10 Vincent And The Doctor
5.10? Really? This season's flying past.This was a frustrating episode for me. Almost everyone seems to have loved it, and there was a wonderful episode in there somewhere - but it had to struggle...
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Worst ep of the whole reboot - even worse than Fear Her, if that's possible. Not worth a proper review, except to note that James Corden wasn't the worst thing about the episode by a long way.Next week...
View ArticleDoctor Who 5.12 The Pandorica Opens
That, on the other hand, is more like it. Fully made of awesome and win. And ZOMG. Now, fingers crossed Moffat can stick the landing.Have to watch it again, because my mum kept wandering back and...
View ArticleDouble standards
So we keep hearing about how it's Totally Racist for Scottish people (or Welsh or Irish, I guess) to support Anyone But England in the World Cup. We should all support England cos they're, like, our...
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Doctor Who 5.13 The Big Bang
Right now, that episode seems close to perfect. I'm sure there are problems with it - especially if you object too much to fantasy in your SF - but it was just stunningly executed. I'm pretty much...
View ArticleStill Aten't Dead Redux
Hello! I've been meaning to blog about loads of things, but obviously now that I've got round to sitting at the "post an entry" screen my mind's gone blank. So, general update....Hmm. I feel like I've...
View ArticleTranslation services for immigrants
So I have a question my google-fu is failing me on - I keep just getting results from the Daily Mail. I have a feeling all the information I want will be on websites in other languages, which isn't...
View ArticleFour months
Eek, was 15th July actually the last time I posted? I am still here! I...haven't been reading, actually. Sorry. I do intend to come back. It's all Twitter's fault.Not much happening, mind you. I went...
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