Lots of crying and frustration in the last minutes leading up to the deadline for submissions to the mini-opera scriptwriting competition run by the English National Opera ( Read more... )

Well of course things are moving at a pace. If they weren't moving at a pace, they wouldn't be moving, would they? Silly, silly sayings.

But enough curmudgeonly! There are good news's-es. News is a plural, surely? So what is the plural of news? *

You know that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when judges create a category for you when there wasn't ( Read more... )

Went to London on Wednesday to grab my three elements for the 24 hour Urban Fantasist Sci-Fi London Festival and had a fun afternoon with jnicholson wandering aimlessly around looking for the cloth district, finding the red light district on the way and missing the fabric shops by five minutes as a result. We then also didn't quite make it in time ( Read more... )

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The Home Office has said we can stay, but not before making us travel from Hampshire to Liverpool for our interview because there are no more appointments left in the entire future of forever in the London office. Or something.

We are currently celebrating with dinner at a Japanese restaurant while waiting for our train home.

That anti-gay bill is back and working it's way through the Russian political process.

There is now less than a week left to defeat the attempt to stop GLBT people from being able to talk about their own lives.

Campaigners are now focussing on getting veto from the mayor of Saint Petersburg by way of tourism boycott.

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A year ago today my world split down the middle and one half fell away ( Read more... )

Political leaders in St. Petersburg are about to vote on law that will make it illegal for any person to write a book, publish an article or speak in public about being gay, lesbian or transgender. The ruling party led by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin could make millions of people invisible with the stroke of a pen ( Read more... )

19:30 We're home!

19:35 Boiling water for tea, opening mail

19:40 Looking around in dissatisfaction noting this is not a hotel

19:45 Spat with spouse over state of house

19:50 Retreat to separate corners

19:55 Back to routine

20:00 We're home; the holiday is officially over.  :-(

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