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Oh, hi!
So in a very brief recap, I was made redundant and sent off with enough money to not work for a while, so I've taken July off. I might take August off, too, I'm going to play it by ear. After working like a maniac and stressing myself into a pretzel for years, I am very much enjoying not working and have instead been gardening, making things, ( Read more... ) -
If you're in Aus ...
Remember, don't be distratcted by the fact Malcolm Turnbull could play an aged Draco Malfoy ( Read more... ) -
What the ever-loving fuck were you thinking?
I know what it's like. I remember a couple of years back, spending weeks thinking 'Surely no-one could be stupid enough to vote for Tony Abbott ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision 2016 Final!
We open with the contestants all walking through the stadium with models wearing paper costumes onto which national flags are projected. Some quality Vogueing there. And a genuinely decent dance mix ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision 2016 Semi Final 2
And we're back! Brilliant opening with beautiful imagery (Sweden, you do this so well!) And a nice host banter intro complete with brief Petra pub chant. The hosts tell us that it's the first time China and the US have carried the telecast live, and all of us are left wondering just how people in small towns of both those countries are dealing with ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision 2016 Semi Final One
It's that time of year again. Stockholm, we salute you and your willingness to take one for Europe (and Israel and Australia). Straight into things tonight ( Read more... ) -
Belgian flist
Especially those in Brussels. I know that this is low on your priorities, but when you have a minute, if you could just drop a line to say if you're OK, it would be much appreciated. I know that from around the world, we are all thinking of you and holding you close in our thoughts. -
Cardinal Pell
The most senior Australian Catholic is currently appearing before our Royal Commission on child sex abuse via video link from Rome. He has been declared too ill to travel from the Vatican to Melbourne by his private doctor, despite having flown out to Australia for a private function a few weeks before he was last due to appear ( Read more... ) -
FFS, 2016
I am not best pleased with the decline in the number of golden-voiced British men this year ( Read more... ) -
All the Important Words Unspoken, aka, I wrote thing!
I very nearly said no to writing for another fest, cognisant that it meant two or three months in which little or no work would be done on any of my own work, but as raitala used to say, if I didn't do fests, then I'd write no fanfic at all. So this was written as part of the glorious hd_erised, which has SO MUCH good stuff in it (though I confess I have finished ( Read more... )