Those who read flickgc's LJ will be aware that we got a dog yesterday, a rescued three-or-four-year-old Bernese mountain dog whose previous owner died. Here's a brief video of her bounding across the front garden (taken in Vine but uploaded to YouTube instead, since Vine doesn't let you rotate videos).

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Especially for eleyan, here are the boys in their KKK outfits.

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The switch just got flipped at the exchange, and we have ADSL again, after a week of relying on very dodgy mobile Internet on our phones. Will be catching up on email over the weekend. It's currently syncing at 1440 kbps, which could be worse, but won't do much streaming video. Can't do a speed test until we've stopped pulling down tons of delayed ( Read more... )

For those keeping track, everything arrived except the horse bedding, which is promised to be waiting for us when we get there tomorrow ( Read more... )

We drove down to the new house this morning and collected the keys, our money fortunately having arrived a little before we did. Then after poking around the house, garden and stables for a bit (What are all these pull cords in the bedrooms that don't seem to do anything? Do we actually know the alarm code? What's this bare concrete patch in the ( Read more... )

Heard the new Archbishop of Canterbury (soon to be our local vicar, pretty much) on Radio 4 at lunchtime saying that credit unions should be able to compete with Wonga while offering APRs of 70% or 80%, rather than Wonga's 5,500%. However, a quick calculation shows that if you're doing two week loans with a 7.5% default rate (which I believe is ( Read more... )

We collected Jonny from near Gatwick today and installed him in the same livery yard as vgrumpybastard. Except that he doesn't actually have a stable of his own and is living outside in the field, which is what he's used to.

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I now seem to be sorted for ponies. Jonny passed the vet with flying colours (he has itchy back legs from mites, and he needs to see a farrier soon), and I'm paying a deposit tomorrow and probably collecting him a week on Monday. He's pretty much your classic heavyweight cob, and has been very well-behaved each time we've been to see him ( Read more... )

Nights spend away from home in 2012 (including forthcoming New Year's Eve). Asterisks denote more than one non-consecutive occasion ( Read more... )

From nwhyte. Locus have published the results of their online poll of the best sf and fantasy novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. I give the lists below, with bold if I've read it, italic if I started but did not finish, and struck through if I did not like the book ( Read more... )