Yesterday was hotter than they forecast, and today will be the same. I just know it will. I've had both fans going all night - ceiling and upright oscillating - and although they do help, I suspect I can feel the heat generated by their motors. That's how much I dislike this weather. (I'm taken by flights of fantasy and horror.) And I'm always ( Read more... )

I had no idea that "[u]pon her death [Dorothy Parker] left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She also provided that in the event of his death, her estate would pass on to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." I also didn't know that she died only a year before I was born.

My land is bare of chattering folk ( Read more... )

I have my heart set on baking some glass biscuits this month. I should make a pointed arch form out of a metal strip and make some tiny forms to create the internal windows and choose my lolly colours carefully. Then I could call them Cathedral Windows!

I found these ones on Taste but I haven't even begun to look properly. Just dunderklumped upon ( Read more... )

It's hot, hot, hot! I've been in my cotton nightie and bare feet all day. The ceiling fan is rotating merrily on high (ding-dong) and I'm hungry, yet not. I ate a small bunch of green seedless grapes which feel like they still haven't travelled down my throat properly, so I won't be able to eat until that feeling goes. But I am hungry and very, ( Read more... )

Oops. Not only did I forget it was Thanksgiving yesterday, I forgot to wish husbo T a happy one. Last year we talked of having a feast this year and inviting people over, but it was bound not to happen. T's been in a superfunk of a mood for the past however-long - luckily he's getting much better really fast, thanks to starting anti-Ds - and ( Read more... )

Q: What do you call three planks of wood?

A: Edward Woodward.

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RIP, Edward Woodward. I always thought you were decent, and a very handsome older actor. I wonder if you knew of this joke. It doesn't work if you have a Canadian or American accent and articulate all those pesky 'r' sounds.

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I've been playing piano a lot lately. Last week I couldn't hear the notes for their out-of-tune-(e)d-ness. This week I forget it's out of tune. I bet the neighbours don't. I wonder which side of us is more sick of Gretchaninoff's Festive Dance which is a mazurka.

Got my first copy of New Internationalist magazine, the first of four free ones. I'm already keen to get a subscription. As promised, no filler. Every article worth reading, every ad informative (or transformative). I received my second envelope of ribbons today (I joined a new swapping community and I love it so far; much more suitable for me than ( Read more... )

I'm still around. Still here. Hi, etcetera. I've been keeping really busy but rarely have a lot to show for it. I write almost daily LJ posts in my head that hardly ever make it to the website. I turn on the computer almost every day but get easily distracted and amble off to do other things all the time. It's tasks, chores, phonecalls I need to ( Read more... )