It seems that these days I'm only capable of writing in response to msmoat's crises. So, lucky for me - if not quite so lucky for her - that her life's been a bit turbulent recently. This was a little moving present, written on the basis that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, and maybe sharing the upheaval with the lads might help a little ( Read more... )

It must have done, because here I am posting something to my LJ after, what? Ooh...three years or so. Not only that, but the something is a story. A finished story. No, I know. I can hardly believe it myself.

Anyway, without further ado, and with grateful thanks to msmoat, who so generously injured herself to provide me with inspiration, here (behind ( Read more... )

Well, I left msmoat at her B&B in Gatwick last night (after spending an evening driving around most of Southeast England, following false trails in search of a particular meal which we never found and I'm too embarrassed to name *g*), and she should now be winging her way back home ( Read more... )

Continuing the tradition of far too many exclamation marks in my titles, but I feel exclamation marky today because I passed! It's a miracle, but I'm not going to ask any questions *g*.

msmoat and I are about to celebrate by watching a few episodes (well, actually we celebrated first by having a Burger King veggie burger - don't say I don't know how to ( Read more... )

Which just about says it all, really. It snowed today (or rather, last night, so I had the thrill of waking up to snow this morning). Real, lying-on-the-ground, turning-everything-white snow. What's more, some of it's still there despite the bright sunshine (and despite the great lumps of half melted stuff plopping off trees and onto my head when I ( Read more... )

Just that, really *g*. And to those of you celebrating other festivals at this time of year, I hope they are/were/will be just as you'd wish them to be ( Read more... )

Well, almost. Just finished my hideous exam and lived - in one piece, if not entirely unscathed - to tell the tale (and we don't find out the results until after Christmas so I'm going to try to put it from my mind between now and then - once the immediate flashbacks wear off, at least ( Read more... )

In response to (perfectly justified) accusations of cowardice by msmoat (aka PFL), I'm finally posting a thing wot I wrote.

You may remember that msmoat christened her LJ by posting a story snippet she'd come across when transferring to a new computer. Lots of people wanted to see a sequel, and I actually (first time in years) had an idea for one so, with ( Read more... )

I've had more minor illnesses this term than in the whole of last year. One of the perils of paediatrics: all those children with their eager young germs just dying to cross the generation gap. This week it's a chesty cold, so I'm living off paracetamol and decongestants (whoever invented Night Nurse deserves a Nobel prize) and sounding like I've ( Read more... )

Fun discovery of the day: the 'sonic hedgehog' gene (vital to foetal organogenesis/differentiation). At last, a gene name I'm unlikely to forget!