What happens when Cavendish invites a bunch of colleagues for a small belated Burns Night Dinner ;)

2nd and 3rd course provided by us, extremely delicious lentil soup, amazing cheese and wonderful dessert by above mentioned colleagues…

Btw., never having tried anything like this before I was at first super skeptical about the Whisky-Cured Salmon ( Read more... )

I figure it’s high time I started to kick off the new year journaling-wise, if only just to wave at folks and say “Well, hi! I’m still hanging out here, having a good time :)”

TV Shows I’m currently watching or have watched just recently:

• The Crown
• Mindhunter
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Bates Motel (only season 1 so far, but definitely planning to catch up on ( Read more... )

Dream of Peace by Zurik 23 M
Focusing more on the The Expanse’s action elements than on the political angle. But still capturing the general atmosphere and character dynamics rather beautifully, especially that sense of terror and wonder that’s inherent to the show.

Oh, and I just realised the vidder responsible is the same who did one of my ( Read more... )

Over the last couple of weeks, I got quite a good dose of Sci Fi. New Star Trek, new Blade Runner, plus the first one and a half seasons of The Expanse, a show that I had never heard of until Netflix rather successfully marketed it to Cavendish, who decided to give it a try, watched the pilot, and then, on the very next day, decided to watch said ( Read more... )

Cavendish and I now have progressed up to episode 1.20 “The Stranger”, which shines a light on Pinocchio/August’s backstory, all the dark, winding path, right to the point when adult August is leading an increasingly distressed Emma to the very tree portal through which both of them had originally arrived in the Land without Magic.

What sprang ( Read more... )

Just a bunch of loosely connected and highly subjective observations.

Cavendish did not want our OuaT viewing experience to end with that feeling of irritated frustration left by season 6, so he talked me into going back to the show’s very beginnings when all still felt fresh, new and considerably less convoluted. So far we have progressed up to ( Read more... )

I got tagged by the good folks on Tumblr and thought I'd crosspost :)

1. Who is your fave character and why?

I enjoy OuaT as an ensemble piece, because I think that each of the show’s characters is adding something unique to the mix. But, well, my favourite, yes, definitely Killian Jones /Hook. ;)

I guess could name all his qualities now, starting ( Read more... )

Just a note on two very different pieces of fiction that I read in April and can’t quite get out of my head.
The first, the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, strikes me as being the most gentle, most benevolent vision of a (post)apocalyptic society I have seen in while, since Mandel depicts the human need ( Read more... )

As borrowed from
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Fool’s Wisdom (The Things We Don’t Tell) by Bimo (AO3 link), 2442 words
Summary:  When Jackson Healy is left alone to deal with an elderly client, quite a few things fall into place
Characters: Jackson Healy, Holland March, Holly March
Genre: Character Study, Aftermath of a Case
Rating: PG-13, Teen and Up Audiences on AO3
Thanks to: The wonderful ( Read more... )