Domesticity and Star Trek - IDIC?
Well, I don't post much, do I? But I iz still alive, and keeping pretty well, if a bit sneezy, thank you for asking ♥
I've been generally busy with work, and school, and some nice people coming to visit me, but I've been dopey and lurky and short of coherent things to say - so no change there really ;-)
But a few topics seem worthy of remark
It's half term here, and the weather is most pleasant - sunny in the day but still cool at night to sleep. I took DR and CE to the local swimming pool on Thursday - not too busy or loud, and they managed the slide without any age-related failures while I floated around happily. Gone is the day when I had to ask a kind stranger to keep an eye on my five year old while I went on the slide with DR - I am too old and easily bruised to do that any more, unless I really have to. Also I subscribe to the Aquatic Ape theory - it fits human behaviour so neatly.
In other news, big, black and fluffy didn't turn up for his dinner last night, so I went out and called him a couple of times. After midnight, my calls were met by a persistent mow-mow-mow - which the MIB, a torch and I were mightily relieved to track down to a pair of yellow eyes twelve feet up a tree in a thicket fifty yards up the road from us. Yes, he really was stuck, honest, and the MIB had to climb the tree and push the madly clinging cat from the V in the trunk onto his shoulder, and then try and climb down again thus handicapped. Then it was home for cat biscuits and TCP respectively. A rather embarrassed Jet has spent much of today on our lawn - at sea level ;-)
It looks like I was wrong about James May's Meccano bridge being in Cambridge - looks like it's here in Liverpool instead. This is a shame, but saves me from worrying that James will turn up in Cambridge needing my help while we are away in the summer holidays. I never got round to doing anything with the plasticine anyway...
We all went to see this togther (WIN) and it was excellent - the main story and the villain were nothing special, but the love for TOS and the very clever way the actors fitted in with their original versions made me grin. And Zachary Quinto is the spitting image of a young Leonard Nimoy, with make up and the right angle. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I think we missed movies 9 and 10 - but XII will be keenly anticipated.
I'm not the only one overwhelmed with Star Trek squee - this is safe for all who are old enough to see the film, I reckon - Grease and Star Trek XI fanvid by such_heights and just about sums up my mood. I have many fandoms, and will never stop loving any of them, but it's great to have this one refreshed ♥
I've been generally busy with work, and school, and some nice people coming to visit me, but I've been dopey and lurky and short of coherent things to say - so no change there really ;-)
But a few topics seem worthy of remark
It's half term here, and the weather is most pleasant - sunny in the day but still cool at night to sleep. I took DR and CE to the local swimming pool on Thursday - not too busy or loud, and they managed the slide without any age-related failures while I floated around happily. Gone is the day when I had to ask a kind stranger to keep an eye on my five year old while I went on the slide with DR - I am too old and easily bruised to do that any more, unless I really have to. Also I subscribe to the Aquatic Ape theory - it fits human behaviour so neatly.
In other news, big, black and fluffy didn't turn up for his dinner last night, so I went out and called him a couple of times. After midnight, my calls were met by a persistent mow-mow-mow - which the MIB, a torch and I were mightily relieved to track down to a pair of yellow eyes twelve feet up a tree in a thicket fifty yards up the road from us. Yes, he really was stuck, honest, and the MIB had to climb the tree and push the madly clinging cat from the V in the trunk onto his shoulder, and then try and climb down again thus handicapped. Then it was home for cat biscuits and TCP respectively. A rather embarrassed Jet has spent much of today on our lawn - at sea level ;-)
It looks like I was wrong about James May's Meccano bridge being in Cambridge - looks like it's here in Liverpool instead. This is a shame, but saves me from worrying that James will turn up in Cambridge needing my help while we are away in the summer holidays. I never got round to doing anything with the plasticine anyway...
We all went to see this togther (WIN) and it was excellent - the main story and the villain were nothing special, but the love for TOS and the very clever way the actors fitted in with their original versions made me grin. And Zachary Quinto is the spitting image of a young Leonard Nimoy, with make up and the right angle. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I think we missed movies 9 and 10 - but XII will be keenly anticipated.
I'm not the only one overwhelmed with Star Trek squee - this is safe for all who are old enough to see the film, I reckon - Grease and Star Trek XI fanvid by such_heights and just about sums up my mood. I have many fandoms, and will never stop loving any of them, but it's great to have this one refreshed ♥