Her (looking at Morrisons ready-to-eat spiced poppadums) : Look!  Each one's only 35 calories,  and 1.5g of fat.  They're practically fruit!

Him : (laughs until he has to hold on to a shelf) : You know, this is why I love you...

Aww.

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Well, Christmas went pretty well.  We drove across on Christmas Eve and the roads were pretty good, though there were some dicey moments in Worcestershire, as expected.  Got to Parentville at about five, and was in church at eight for "Midnight" Mass.  Because there hadn't been any rehearsals to speak of (and what there had been had been very ( Read more... )

 
We became un-snowed in on Monday, so I went to town, picked up some books from uni, collected my grant cheque (yay!) and ... went to Morrisons.

Oh.  My.  God.  The horror!  I knew it was going to be bad, since most villagers were, like us, able to get into town for the first time in days (plus of course there has been SNOW and it is THE END OF THE ( Read more... )

 We just had a three-hour power cut.

Luckily we have an open fire, but at about two o'clock, with our stomachs grumbling, Himself went to the shed to find the camping stove and associated bits.  Came back, said "I can't find it," and started pulling everything out from under the stairs.  The understairs cupboard has remained undisturbed, apart ( Read more... )

... about the BBC Sherlock fandom is its use of the word "baffled".  I've seen "baffled", "baffling" or "bafflement" more often in two hours of reading Sherlock fic than I have in, probably, the last year of reading in other fandoms.

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Just been playing with the new BBC iPlayer (well, not new, but the "if you sign in you can have favourites" thing, which for all I know has been going on for months, but...) and catching up with the Proms, and I noticed something amusing.

The volume control on the Radio iPlayer thingy.... goes up to 11.

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The new BBC Sherlock makes me very very happy.  (There was a moment of doubt in the opening credits, when I realised that Steven Moffat wrote it, and I flashed back to the patchy oddity that was Jekyll, but this was a million times better than that.)  I adore Benedict Cumberbatch with his funny face and his lovely eyes, and Martin Freeman was great ( Read more... )

First Good Thing: Himself and I have just started mainlining Blake's 7 (I am using an apostrophe despite the fact that the BBC apparently never felt the need to do so).  A slight caveat to the goodness of this is that we only have seasons 1 and 2 so I'll need to buy the rest before we finish season 2.

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I graduated from my master's on Wednesday.  It was a lovely ceremony, but bittersweet.  The Husband was there, of course, and his parents came across to attend as well, but it was sad not to have any of my family there.  (The Mammy wanted to but felt it was too soon, which I agree with; The Daddy should have been there and it would have been far ( Read more... )

to those of you who replied to my previous post.  I hadn't really expected anyone to be able to tell me what the "right" answer was; the questions were mostly meant to be rhetorical.  I know in my head that it won't be something we can timetable ourselves around, but my heart wants certainty.

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