We went to the Royal Court theatre yesterday to see Goats ( Read more... )

To Sadler's Wells last week to see the above. It was a short revival after a well received run last year. I booked it months ago on the grounds that it might be interesting. It was astonishing ( Read more... )

Well this seems to have worked but it's very big!


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First attempt to post a picture on DW:


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In case anyone didn't know, Freddy was diagnosed with kidney disease about 15 months ago.  Although he was stable for about a year he started going downhill last Christmas, and we've been keeping him alive with cat soup, drinking yoghurt, a ton of medication and weekly infusions of subcutaneous fluids.

Anyway, I took him to the vet this morning ( Read more... )

I got out into the garden for the first time this year and have had to divide up the sedum spectabile.  If anyone would like some please let me know.

It is a good filler plant, being unobtrusively green in summer, with flower heads that go red towards the autumn, and "adds sculptural interest" as they say, in winter.  Here is a link to more ( Read more... )

Another week, another studio theatre over a pub.  This time the Finborough Theatre in the wilds of Earl's Court ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for so long that I feel slightly inhibited about it. Nevertheless, having set up a dreamwidth account, here's a go at cross-posting.

Total books read in 2016: 96 which is about 20% down on usual numbers

Best SFF

My Real Children Jo Walton
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters Amanda Downum
Voyage of the Basilisk - Marie Brennan
When We Wake - ( Read more... )

"Acedia" Noun, from Greek akedia, apathetic listlessness, a moral failing.

Crammed into a hot and tiny studio theatre over a hipster pub in the wilds of Clapham, I wasn't sure what to expect from the play, having signed up for it at the behest of tamaranth.  I was vaguely expecting something about pirates, but the piracy turns out to be a metaphor for war ( Read more... )

In Lisbon Castle
the peacocks pose.  It's a long
way down to the sea.