As Facebook has turned into Twitter, and updates fly past at the speed of light, I'm reposting the link to this here in case anyone missed it. We went to the GRRM signing the other day, and got to meet members of the cast of the new HBO pilot and everything!

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Welcome to my ridiculously inexhaustive test data for Mint Chocolate Thins.

Today I will be comparing After Eights and Tesco Chocolate Mint Thins, complete with techincal photos. We will be comparing on several levels, including appearance, smell, taste, sound and vomitability. If you think you can keep up with the jargon,( read on... )

(as an aside to me while on the phone to a small company and being passed from pillar to post trying to track down a gas safety certificate and pay for having it done)

"Argh! It's like talking to a wall made of retards!"

My interview with Peadar O'Guilin is up on Strange Horizons today. Go forth and read! :)

There is a flash mob in Belfast tomorrow, outside City Hall at 1:20pm

For the uninitiated, a flash mob is usually a group of people who turn up suddenly at a certain time, do something, and then dissipate again afterward. They are most often used used in Alternate Reality Games or as publicity stunts, but also just for fun. I imagine they are ( Read more... )

So I've had this silly novel-in-progress in the drawer for years while I got married, moved countries, started new schools, jobs... basically lurched from one crisis to the next etc ( Read more... )

I read the first three Watch books (Night Watch, Day Watch and Twilight Watch) in January after getting them for Christmas, and thoroughly enjoyed them. Initially the film had piqued my interest. It was a little hard to follow and had a real sense of strangeness about it, but it was good, so I was interested to see how the books compared. As always ( Read more... )

I got a call from Aim today to say they had flights to leave on Wednesday! I am SO relieved and happy for her :) She will be back August 3rd, with my blessing.

Yay!Yay!Yay!

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers :)

I made little jam tarts tonight. They were yummy :)

( Boring stuff about jam tarts under the cut... )

I'm so embarassed of this country. How can anyone think it is funny to throw eggs at someone after an election? Democracy isn't just when everyone agrees to be as liberal as you are. The BNP have won some seats democratically. We don't have to like it, but only idiots would offer them the same nasty intolerance that they are complaining that the ( Read more... )