Today I don't have to go into work straight away (for Reasons that will be expanded upon) so I am taking this chance to catch up on posting etc. Because a New Year happened! It's 2010! It's the future ( Read more... )

So NK and I are spending Christmas apart. This isn't a terrible big thing - we're both going to our respective parents' houses and that's fine. But as we're both very closely tied into paganism, we conceived the idea of celebrating the solstice together ( Read more... )

Today, interwebs, was a good day ( Read more... )

NK and I kicked off our Advent tonight by watching "It's a Wonderful Life."

Now, I hadn't seen the film before. I know! I'm clearly wrong in the head (he definitely thought so) and NK was determined that it would be the first one we watched on the run up to Yule.

And, ok, I'm so VERY late to the party but, ( I LOVED IT! (Spoilers - if it matters for a film made in 1946) )

There has been wine involved in tonight's shenanigans. Which, you know, I'm sort of okay with ( Read more... )

So over the weekend I watched The Fantastic Mr Fox. And in general, I thought it was really good. I loved the ye-olde feel to the animation, I loved the humour of the physicality and just. Yeah. It was pretty cool.

A lot of that was, however, for me, over-ridden by some issues I had with the stereotyping.

( Cut for situational spoilers rather than specific plot ones )

Hi interwebs! I am back from my birthday-holiday to walk along Hadrian's wall. It didn't not go entirely as expected (including a visit to A&E) but that's for another post. It was fun, though. :D ( Read more... )

I wanted to have a quick talk about something here. Because today I had to call NHS Direct. Again ( Read more... )

Hey,

Still time to sign up for the International Knitting/Crochet Exchange.

Ok! So remember the INTERNATIONAL KNITTING/CROCHET EXCHANGE I mentioned a wee while ago ( Read more... )