There's a joke from one of the London papers about how, were the fate of the nation really left in the hands of people on O2, we would all be dead. At the moment that rationale is clear ( Read more... )

It's less than a week until The Priory now - I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited. (This isn't helping any at all.) I'm seeing a new production of Pride and Prejudice on Thursday, and I can't imagine even Darcy fangirling is going to extricate me from this reverie ( Read more... )

And for once, maybe, RH actually did it better than Merlin.

Seriously, there's a freaking lake and everything!

Yes, that's the one.

I'm seeing Rupert on stage next month! He's in The Priory, which has come as a total surprise. I'd seen it advertised earlier with Jessica Hynes (whom I love but have never seen in anything) and Rachael Stirling (whom I love and saw in the wonderful Look Back in Anger in Bath with Richard Coyle), and therefore I wanted to go, ( Read more... )

My guess - the answer is yes ( Read more... )

The leaves on the trees are turning all fiery and autumnal, and so has my hair. Two packs of Feria and it is now a particularly ferocious shade of coppery red. My skin is suddenly even paler and my eyes far more green. I always, without fail, start hankering for the bleach again within about a month, but at the moment, I'm rather in love with it. I ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, it is induction day for UCL Classics MA students, and, after three very long years' absence, I am to be one of those ( Read more... )

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My newest fandom ends next week, and to celebrate the joy that has thus far been Desperate Romantics (even given the thumbs up by Charlie Brooker and co. on the awesome bitchfest that is You Have Been Watching!), here's a few icons.

( I find the modern world a most random and confusing place... )

Here is that necklace a few of you so kindly asked to see. It's not the world's best photo (I do have a camera somewhere, but I haven't seen it for years, so I'm dodgy phone-photo reliant), but I hope you can get the general idea.


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