It's been an up and down week. The dogs were in kennels on Sunday as we had to go to Solihull for the annual cat club AGM, at which I again failed to extricate myself from the committee, but at least things seem to be chugging along pretty much without me ( Read more... )

My thanks for all the birthday wishes. They are much appreciated ( Read more... )

On the very rare occasions when I have been eligible to nominate or vote for the Hugo (or any other literary award for that matter) I have not done so because I've never had the time, inclination or opportunity to read/see all the candidates, and I feel that an uninformed vote is worthless. I have subsequently read some of the winners and nominees ( Read more... )

I decided to wear mostly tourquoise for this con. Have made a new belt for my old faithful con dress which is currently blocking (and will hopefully be ready to wear soon) And I know I purchased a tourquoise halter top ages ago, but can I find it? Heck as like ( Read more... )

Mt netbook is refusting to play with the internets again. Just when I have my story to post to Daily Deviant, and patterns to download from Ravelry. My thaks to Lil for allowing me access to her machine. Off now to get more stuff ready for tomorrows trip ti the Museum of London, and for Eastercon ( Read more... )

It has been an intermittently successful week. I did some trial baking, got my hair cut, took Draco to agility class (where he decided to emulate Bren and refuse to go over the dog walk, without the excuse of having fallen off it, and to Lurk In Tunnels (it's a terrier thing)), enquired about getting a new stair carpet (I still have to give the ( Read more... )

At one time I was a member of the Richard III society, I let my membership lapse not for any idiomatic reason but because I had other things to devote my time to ( Read more... )

Wretched LJ code changes mean I keep having to log in when I go to the LJ page, and then am presented with a new layout and instructions on what to do if I want to change to it, but not how to get it back the way it was! And I still can't get it to display more than 10 posts on the Friends Page, even though I clearly put 30 in the relevant format ( Read more... )

Every now and then Little Dog Draco dives at the window and barks like crazy - there are pigeons in HIS GARDEN! Then out of sheer frustration, he grabs the nearest thing (if I’m lucky it will be one of Bren’s toys, if not it will be one of our shoes) and shakes it exactly like a terrier (which, of course, he is) shaking a rat, until it is ( Read more... )

The weather this week has been lovely and sunny and warm. Draco has not been wearing any of his coats (though I am working on a new one) and I have abandoned the jeans and went out this morning in a skirt ( Read more... )